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Turn a rambling voice note into three things I'll actually do
Founder, Automation Squad
Voice notes are where the honest version of your thinking lives, and a normal 'summarize this' prompt destroys exactly what makes them useful by flattening the hesitation out. Sections 3 and 4 do the real work — naming the fake commitment and the thing you keep avoiding is the part you cannot do for yourself, because you are the one avoiding it.
The prompt
I'm going to give you a voice note. It's me thinking out loud, so it will double back on itself, trail off, and change its mind partway through. Don't clean it up into a summary — I don't need to read my own thoughts again in tidier form. Give me: 1. THE DECISION I ALREADY MADE. Somewhere in there I probably talked myself into something. Quote the bit where I did. 2. THE THREE THINGS TO ACTUALLY DO, in the order they should happen. Each one starts with a verb and is small enough to finish in a single sitting. If something I said is really five tasks pretending to be one, split it. 3. WHAT I SAID I'D DO BUT WON'T. Be blunt. If something was mentioned once, vaguely, with no detail and no enthusiasm, it's not a real commitment — call it. 4. THE THING I TALKED AROUND. Anything I circled back to more than once without resolving. That's usually the thing that actually needs a decision. 5. ONE QUESTION worth sitting with, if there is one. Skip this if there isn't — don't invent one for symmetry. Don't be encouraging. I'm not looking for a summary that makes me feel productive, I'm looking for the two or three things that survive contact with a normal week. [record or attach your voice note]
Copy it, paste it, run it. Nothing here is gated.
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Written for ChatGPT or Claude (voice or audio upload) as of August 2026. Models change — if this stops working the way it should, that is worth telling us about.
