Short version: Tap your phone’s mic, brain-dump for 2 minutes, paste one prompt. Wake up with tomorrow’s priorities sorted and nothing lost.
Why the brain dump beats typing
By 6pm, your brain holds the real picture. What’s done, what’s half-done, what got dropped, what someone mentioned in a meeting that felt important.
Your task app holds whatever you typed this morning. Those two things are rarely the same.
Talking is faster than typing, and more honest. You don’t filter when you’re rambling. The organizing comes after, not during. When you type, you edit in real time. You delete the thing that sounds small, even if it’s actually blocking something bigger. When you talk, it all comes out. The frustration, the half-finished thing you keep avoiding, the task you technically completed but know needs more work. None of that makes it into a typed list. All of it matters for planning.
How the workflow runs
Open Claude. Tap the mic icon. Talk for about 2 minutes. What got done, what didn’t, what’s stuck, what showed up sideways. No structure required. Just talk like you’re updating a friend.
Two minutes is enough. You might cover six things or sixteen. Either way, you’re not trying to be thorough in the moment. You’re trying to get it out of your head and into text. Something like: “finished the landing page draft, still need to fix the headline, pushed the client call to Thursday, that report is still sitting there, and I forgot to follow up on the invoice.” That’s a useful brain dump. It doesn’t have to be more organized than that.
Then paste the prompt below under the whole dump.
The prompt runs two passes. First, it extracts every task, deadline, and status from what you said and shows the list back to you for confirmation. You catch the things you forgot to mention. Then, once you confirm, it builds the actual plan.
Daily reset or weekly review, depending on how much you covered. You tell it which, or it figures it out from context.
💡 Where this actually fits
- End-of-workday debrief before you close the laptop
- Friday wrap-up before you mentally check out for the weekend
- Post-meeting debrief when decisions got made but nothing got written down
- Mid-project check-in when progress feels murky and scattered
Prompt of the Day
Copy this. Paste it directly under your voice memo transcript in Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini.
You are a planning assistant. Everything above this prompt is a dictated brain dump. It might cover one day or an entire week.
Step 1: Figure out the timeframe. If the dictation covers a single day, treat it as a daily reset. If it covers multiple days, treat it as a weekly review. If you can’t tell, ask me.
Step 2: Go through the dictation and extract these details. Present them to me for confirmation.
- Tasks completed
- Tasks started but not finished (and where they stalled)
- Tasks that got dropped or pushed
- New things that came up that weren’t on the original plan
- Deadlines or commitments mentioned
- Anything I flagged as important, frustrating, or urgent
- Anything blocked or dependent on someone else
If something isn’t mentioned, mark it as [NOT MENTIONED].
Wait for me to confirm or correct before moving on. If I add new details, remember things I forgot, or change anything during confirmation, fold all of that into the final version. Treat the confirmation step as a second pass, not just a yes or no.
Step 3: After I confirm, structure everything into a plan.
If daily reset:
- First thing tomorrow (the 1-2 tasks to start with)
- The rest of the day, ranked by priority
- Waiting on (anything blocked)
- Can wait (tasks that won’t hurt if they slip another day)
If weekly review:
- What got done (bullet points)
- What’s carrying over and why (bullet points)
- Next week’s priorities, ranked by urgency
- Anything to drop or delegate if the week gets tight
Present this to me for confirmation before finalizing. If I make changes, update and present again.
Rules:
- Pull every specific detail from the dictation. Task names, project names, people, deadlines, status.
- If I said something vague like “the marketing thing is almost done,” keep it vague and add a note: [CLARIFY: what specifically is left?]
- Do not invent details that aren’t in the dictation.
- Match the tone and language of how I speak. Write like I talk.
- If I wouldn’t say it out loud, don’t write it.
- For task lists and priorities, keep it plain. Just list them.
- For any carrying-over or context sections, use a mix of short declarative sentences and longer sentences so it reads like a real debrief, not a spreadsheet.
- Output in clean markdown.
Try it tonight
Before you close the laptop, tap the mic. Give it 2 minutes. Don’t overthink the structure.
The confirmation step is the part most people don’t expect. It shows you exactly what the AI pulled before it builds the plan. That alone catches half the things you meant to include but glossed over. It also catches misreads. If you said “pushed the Figma work” and the AI logged it as complete instead of delayed, you see that before it shapes your whole tomorrow. The confirmation pass is not a formality. It’s where the accuracy actually happens.
Paste the prompt once and see what comes back. The keyboard will feel slower after this.
This prompt turns a rambling voice memo into tomorrow’s priorities
by u/promptTearDown in ChatGPTPromptGenius