Productivity and personal life
Tasks, notes, meetings, summaries, decisions, brainstorming, habits, everyday tech help, digital safety, personal style, shopping decisions, religion and spirituality, and event planning.
217 prompts, 12 personas, 8 workflows
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Task management
All 24- ADHD coach
Acts as a non-clinical ADHD coach who works with interest, urgency and novelty, externalises everything, shrinks tasks until they start and treats lapses without shame.
- Audit where your time goes
Analyses a week of time tracking or calendar data to show where the hours actually go against stated priorities, finds the leaks and proposes specific changes. Use when busy but not productive.
- Break down a big task
Breaks an overwhelming task into concrete steps that each take under an hour, orders them by dependency, flags unknowns and picks the one step to do today. Use when a big task feels impossible.
- Build a reusable checklist
Builds a reusable checklist for a recurring procedure such as travel prep, month-end or event setup, ordered by timing, with pause points, commonly missed steps and a way to keep it current.
Note-taking
All 11- Build a personal CRM for staying in touch
Designs a personal relationship notes system for staying in touch, covering who to track, last contact, details worth remembering, reminders and a light weekly routine.
- Build a team wiki structure
Designs a knowledge base for a non-software team - spaces, page templates, naming rules, page owners, a review cadence and a migration plan from scattered docs.
- Design a personal knowledge system
Designs a personal knowledge system using PARA, Zettelkasten or a hybrid in your chosen notes app, with the structure, ready-to-use templates, a capture flow and a weekly review routine.
- Make reading notes
Turns highlights from an article or book into atomic, linkable notes written as claims in plain words, with source references, link suggestions and prompts for the reader's own takeaways.
Meetings
All 19- Design a team meeting cadence
Designs a team's recurring meeting rhythm - daily, weekly, planning and review meetings - each with a purpose, length, attendees and an async alternative, within a time budget.
- Facilitate a tense meeting
Plans facilitation for a meeting likely to be tense (a contested decision, bad news, conflict) with ground rules, structure, phrases for heated moments and a closing that records agreements.
- Find a meeting time across time zones
Finds fair meeting slots across time zones from participants' locations and working hours, and rotates the inconvenience for recurring meetings.
- Meeting facilitator
Meeting facilitator who designs every session around an outcome, keeps time, draws out quiet voices, handles dominant ones and ends with decisions, owners and dates. For teams and leaders.
Summarisation
All 26- Brief me on an unfamiliar topic
Gets someone up to speed on an unfamiliar topic before a meeting or decision, with key terms, main players, live debates, common misconceptions and smart questions, flagging what may be out of date.
- Build a news digest
Turns several articles into a short briefing - key developments, where sources agree or disagree, what is genuinely new and what to watch next - with every point traced to its source.
- Build a timeline from documents
Builds a dated chronology of events from emails, letters and notes with a source for each entry, and flags conflicting dates and gaps. For disputes, claims, complaints and investigations.
- Catch up after time away
Builds a catch-up brief after time away from emails, chats and documents covering what changed, decisions made, what needs you first and what can wait.
Decision-making
All 22- Build a decision tree with expected values
Builds a decision tree of options, chance events, probabilities and payoffs, rolls back the expected values and shows which assumptions would flip the answer.
- Check a decision for cognitive biases
Reviews the reasoning behind a pending decision for cognitive biases such as anchoring, sunk cost and confirmation, quoting the evidence and giving a specific debiasing step for each.
- Choose a productivity app
Compares task, note or calendar apps against your needs, devices, budget and team, recommends one or staying put, and gives a low-risk trial and migration plan.
- Compare options with a decision matrix
Builds a weighted decision matrix for your options and criteria, with must-have filters and anchored scores, then tests how sensitive the winner is to the weights before recommending.
Brainstorming
All 13- Brainstorm ideas
Generates many diverse ideas with structured techniques such as SCAMPER, constraint shifts and analogies, then clusters them and shortlists the strongest. Use when obvious answers fall short.
- Brainstorm names
Generates names for a pet, team, project, boat, band or event in several styles, checks each finalist for awkward meanings and practical snags, and gives a shortlist with reasons.
- Cluster a long list of ideas
Clusters a long list of ideas into named themes, merges duplicates without losing any idea, and ranks the clusters against stated criteria with reasons. Use after a brainstorm or survey.
- Facilitate a group brainstorm
Plans and scripts a group brainstorm - framed challenge, warm-up, silent ideation, building, clustering, voting and next steps - timed to the group and slot. For teams generating ideas together.
Habits and goals
All 29- Add more joy to your week
Plans a week with more enjoyable and meaningful moments, mixing small pleasures, mastery and connection, and schedules them into real gaps in the person's week so they actually happen.
- Beat procrastination on a task
Diagnoses why a specific task is being avoided, then gives a concrete two-minute first step, a plan for the next 25 minutes and a way to keep going. Use when you keep putting something off.
- Break a bad habit
Builds a plan to break a habit from its cues and rewards - friction, a substitute that meets the same need, environment changes, if-then plans for risky moments and a plan for slips.
- Build a personal board of advisors
Maps the people who support someone's life and work into roles such as mentor, challenger and cheerleader, finds the gaps and plans how to invite and keep those relationships.
Tech help
All 22- Automate a personal routine
Designs phone or computer automations (Shortcuts, Tasker, Power Automate, IFTTT and similar) for a repeated routine, with trigger, actions, step-by-step setup and a test plan.
- Check a used device before buying
Builds a checklist for buying a used phone, laptop, tablet or console: activation locks, battery health, screen, ports, serial and blacklist checks, red flags and questions for the seller.
- Choose computer specs
Translates what you do on a computer into the specs that matter (processor, memory, storage, screen, battery, ports) and configurations to look for within budget, before you buy.
- Digital declutter track
Runs a digital declutter in gated steps - subscriptions and accounts, files and downloads, photos, email, phone apps and notifications - and ends with a light routine to keep it tidy.
Digital safety
All 19- Check your data breach exposure
Explains what to do after learning an email or account was in a data breach - checking the notice is real, what was likely exposed, the steps to take now, monitoring, and signs of identity theft.
- Check an online shop is legitimate
Checks whether an online shop is likely legitimate before you buy, using domain, reviews, payment, contact, policy and pricing signals, and says what to do if you have already paid.
- Check a phone for stalkerware
Guides a careful check for stalkerware, shared accounts and location tracking on a phone, with safety planning before removing anything and pointers to specialist help.
- Check a suspicious message
Checks a suspicious email, text, call or social message for scam and phishing signs, explains each sign in plain words, and says exactly what to do next, including if you already clicked or paid.
Personal style and grooming
All 13- Build a simple skincare routine
Builds a short morning and evening skincare routine by skin type, goals and budget, with product types, order of use, how to add actives slowly and when to see a dermatologist.
- Choose a perfume or cologne
Guides choosing a perfume or cologne from the scents a person already likes, using fragrance families and notes, how to test on skin, occasions and seasons, and cheap ways to sample first.
- Choose glasses frames
Helps choose glasses frames by face, prescription strength, lifestyle and budget, explaining frame materials, the size numbers on the arm and lens options to ask the optician about.
- Choose a haircut and brief your stylist
Suggests haircuts that suit a person's hair type, features, styling time and constraints, and writes how to describe the chosen cut to a stylist or barber, with photos to look for.
Shopping decisions
All 12- Buy something secondhand safely
Prepares someone to buy a secondhand item online or locally, with the checks for that item type, recall and safety lookups, price research, scam signs and a safe meetup and payment plan.
- Choose baby gear
Helps new parents choose baby gear such as car seats, prams, cots and carriers by safety standards, lifestyle, space and budget, separating essentials from nice-to-haves and what can be secondhand.
- Choose furniture that fits
Helps choose a sofa, bed, table or wardrobe that fits the room and the route in, with measurements to take, clearances, materials for kids and pets, delivery checks and returns rules.
- Choose a home appliance
Helps choose a household appliance such as a washing machine, fridge or vacuum by usage, space, energy label, running costs, noise and reliability, with questions to ask the seller.
Religion and spirituality
All 25- Answer a child's question about faith
Helps a parent or teacher answer a child's question about God, prayer, heaven or why friends believe differently, in the family's tradition or neutrally, in words that fit the child's age.
- Compare religious perspectives on a question
Compares how several religious and secular traditions approach one big question, such as suffering, the afterlife or forgiveness, fairly and in each tradition's own terms, without a verdict.
- Explain religious art and symbols
Explains the religious symbols, stories and conventions in a painting, building or object from a photo or description, so a visitor can read it in the tradition's own terms.
- Explain a religious tradition
Gives a respectful, accurate introduction to a religion or spiritual tradition, covering beliefs, practice, calendar, branches and common misconceptions, in five minutes or in full.
Event planning
All 2- Community event planning track
Plans a volunteer-run community event such as a street party, school fair or fun run in gated steps - permissions, volunteers, publicity, safety, the day itself and a wrap-up with thanks and accounts.
- Plan a wedding
Builds a wedding plan with a budget split, a timeline from engagement to the day, a vendor checklist, guest list management and a run of show for the day itself, flagging what to book first.