LESSON 6 OF 6
Build your daily workflow
BY THE END OF THIS LESSON
Leave with three named tasks you will hand to AI this week.
Why most people stop
People try AI on their most interesting problem, get a mediocre answer, and quietly stop. The tasks worth automating first are the opposite of interesting: the small, repeated, slightly annoying ones you do every week without thinking.
Find your three
Look for tasks with all three properties: you do it repeatedly, it has a predictable shape, and you would not be embarrassed for it to be 85% right before you edit it.
Typical winners: turning notes into a summary, first-draft replies to routine emails, restructuring something you already wrote, turning a long document into the five points you need, drafting the agenda.
Make it a template, not a chat
Once a prompt works, save it. A prompt you rewrite from memory every time will decay — you will drop the context and be back to generic output within a fortnight.
Keep them anywhere you can paste from quickly: a note, a snippet tool, a project in the tool itself. The saving is not the prompt, it is not having to think about the prompt.
YOUR TURN
Build your own shortlist and turn the top one into a reusable template.
RUN THIS
Help me find the best first tasks to hand to AI. Ask me what a typical working week looks like — what I do repeatedly, what I put off, and what I find tedious. Ask follow-up questions until you actually understand the work. Then give me three candidate tasks ranked by how much time they would save against how likely they are to work, with the reasoning for each. Finally, take the top one and write me a reusable prompt template with clearly marked placeholders for the parts that change each time.
What a good result looks like
A template with obvious placeholders you can fill in ten seconds. Save it somewhere you can paste from today — a template you cannot find is a template you will not use.
KNOWLEDGE CHECK
Answer all 2 correctly to complete this lesson.
1. What kind of task should you automate first?
2. Why save a prompt as a template rather than rewriting it each time?
REMEMBER THIS
Automate the boring and repeated first, then save the prompt that worked.