20 Recipes 4: Recurring Habits

Tom S
Updated

Build the habits that make Smith part of your routine. This is one of the 6 Recipe categories. Each recipe below opens to reveal its full steps, an example, and a live demo you can run. Filter by effort if you want the quicker ones first.

RECIPES 4
Recurring Habits

Turn your day and week into a system that builds itself

 

🍳

What is a recipe?

A recipe is a short, numbered sequence that combines a few moves into a repeatable result. Each one below opens to reveal its purpose, when to use it, the full steps, an example, and a live demo. For single one-prompt moves, see the Playbook. Recipes are grouped into 6 categories; this article is one of them.

The Recipes

Each recipe is collapsed by default. Click one to expand its purpose, when to use it, the numbered steps, an example, and a demo you can run right there. The badge shows the effort.

Filter by effort: Showing all items
The daily close-out a clean close and a running map of your work Quick ▸

Purpose: End every day with a clean record and a head start on tomorrow, and quietly build your routine map at the same time. A two-minute ritual that feeds your Routine Log.

When to use this: At the end of each workday, to close out cleanly and capture what recurs.

Steps
# What you do What you should see
1 Paste the day's loose notes Smith has them
2 "Summarize what got done" A record
3 "List tomorrow's to-dos and flag follow-ups" A head start
4 Log any recurring task in your Routine Log chat The log grows
Example
Here are my notes from today. Summarize what got done, list tomorrow's to-dos, and flag anything I am waiting on from someone else.
See it in action

You end up with: a clean close and a running map of your work.

The weekly review a two-minute review plus a ready status update Quick ▸

Purpose: Turn a week of scattered work into a clear self-review and a ready-to-send manager update, before the Friday scramble.

When to use this: Friday afternoon, or whenever you need a status update and a sense of how the week went.

Steps
# What you do What you should see
1 Paste the week's notes or pull from your close-outs Inputs ready
2 "What did I accomplish, what slipped, what is the theme?" A self-review
3 "Top 3 priorities for next week?" A focused start
4 "Turn this into my update for my manager" A status update
Example
Here are my daily close-outs from this week. What did I accomplish, what slipped, and what is the theme? Then draft my manager update.
See it in action

You end up with: a two-minute review plus a ready status update.

The recurring-task automation builder a recurring task cut from 30 minutes to 30 seconds Setup ▸

Purpose: The payoff recipe. Take the highest-frequency task from your Routine Log and turn it into a saved persona, prompt, and folder combo. This is where the routine map becomes real time savings.

When to use this: Once your Routine Log shows which task you do most often, and you are ready to make it nearly automatic.

Steps
# What you do What you should see
1 Open your Routine Log, pick your most frequent task Chosen by data
2 "Here is the task, the inputs, and the output format I need" Smith understands
3 Set the right persona, select the right folder, write the prompt Assembled
4 Produce it once; fix what is off A good output
5 Save the prompt; note the persona and folder combo Reusable
Example
My most frequent task is a Monday sales recap email. Here is a past example and the inputs I use. Help me set up a persona, folder, and prompt to make it repeatable.
See it in action

You end up with: a recurring task cut from 30 minutes to 30 seconds.

See a Full Workflow in Action

These habits compound. Here is how a daily close-out feeds a weekly review, which surfaces the task worth automating.

🔁A day, a week, an automation

Three habit recipes building on each other

Watch the daily close-out feed the weekly review, which surfaces the task worth automating.

Next Steps: Open one recipe and run it end to end today. For single one-prompt moves, browse the Playbook. Working through your first month? The First 30 Days plan tells you which recipes to use each week.

Recipes 5: Documents & Long-Form Content

The next category of multi-step recipes.

Recipes 3: Communications

The previous category of recipes.

The Playbook

Looking for single one-prompt moves instead?

Related articles

Comments

0 comments

Article is closed for comments.