Automate one boring thing

Spot the repetitive computer work in your week and make AI do the drafting half.

The lesson

Finding automation candidates (anything you do the same way twice a week), and the template + AI pattern: reformat this list, draft the same email again, rename these files, summarize this weekly report.

Try it — 60 seconds

Every week I have to [repetitive task]. Here's an example of the input and what the output should look like: [paste both]. Do this one, then save the instructions so I can reuse them.

Copy it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — whichever you already use. Fill in the brackets with your real life.

Watch out

Automate the draft, keep the send. Anything that goes out under your name gets your eyes first, every time.