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Turn a chore into a checklist

Any task you do badly every month deserves twenty minutes of checklist-building once.

Here's a recurring task I do from memory: [describe it, including the steps you can remember and where it usually goes wrong]. Turn it into a step-by-step checklist with the easy-to-forget steps marked, then ask me what's missing.

Why it works

A checklist moves the remembering out of your head on a busy day into a document written on a calm one. The AI's contribution is structure and the follow-up questions.

Watch out

Run the checklist once while watching for missing steps — the first draft always has gaps only reality can find.

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