I run my week on a rolling list, and it falls apart by Wednesday every single time. The fix wasn’t a fancier app. It was a weekly review I could stick to. Here are three prompts that helped me build one, and they’ll work in whatever tool you already use.
[Claude]
You are a task-management coach. I have a to-do list of 40+ items that I never finish. Given my list below, group every item into one of four buckets: Do This Week, Delegate, Defer, or Delete. For each item in Do This Week, assign a single day and a 30-minute time block. Output as a markdown table with columns: Item, Bucket, Day, Block. Then list the three items you would cut first and why. My list: [paste your tasks]
[ChatGPT]
Act as a productivity auditor. I’ll paste my task list and calendar for the past week. Identify every task that took more than 2 hours but produced no visible result, and every task I planned but skipped. For each, tell me whether it was a planning error, a scope problem, or a priority mistake. End with a 5-step weekly review checklist I can run every Friday in under 15 minutes. My data: [paste tasks and calendar]
[Cursor]
In this repo, I track my work in a TODO.md file. Write a script that reads TODO.md, parses lines starting with ‘- [ ]’, and outputs a weekly review report: total open tasks, tasks older than 7 days, and tasks with no assignee. Group by the section heading above each task. Print the report to the console and save it to REVIEW.md. Run it and show me the output so I can review what’s actually stuck.
More daily packs in the archive at aitoolalliance.com/tag/prompt-pack.