I tried about 40 different “AI workflow” ideas this year. Most of them sounded clever and got abandoned within a week. The five below are the only ones I run every week, six months in. The pattern across them: they all solve a recurring task that used to eat 30+ minutes. None of them are clever. All of them I run without thinking about it now. The proposal generator (saves about 2 hours per proposal): Turn these notes into a formatted Word doc proposal ready to send today. Notes: [dump everything] Client: [name] Price: [amount] Sections: Executive summary, problem, solution, scope, timeline, investment, next steps. Formatted .docx. Sounds human. The meeting processor (saves about 30 minutes per meeting): Here are my rough notes: [paste] Attendees: [names] Give me: 1. Half-page summary 2. Action items table (task, owner, deadline) 3. Follow-up email ready to send to all attendees The content repurposer (turns one piece into five): Here’s a piece I wrote: [paste] My voice: [describe] Repurpose into: - LinkedIn post (200-300 words) - Three standalone X posts - Email to my list (150 words) - Instagram caption - One-paragraph summary Same voice across all. No AI clichés. The Friday review (10 minutes that kills Sunday-evening anxiety): Here’s what happened this week: [brain dump] Numbers: [whatever you track] Give me: - What actually went well and why - What didn’t work (honest, no softening) - Top 5 priorities for next week ranked - The single clearest thing I should change The end-of-day reset (the one that has surprised me most): Today’s notes: [dump everything from today - tasks done, conversations had, things you’re carrying into tomorrow] Tell me: 1. What I should write down before I forget 2. Anything I committed to that I haven’t actioned 3. The one thing I should sleep on rather than decide now 4. Tomorrow’s first hour - what’s on it and why Five prompts. Each one solves a specific recurring pain. Together they took maybe 15 minutes to set up and now run every week without me thinking about them. The thing this post deliberately doesn’t show is the exact setup for running these as scheduled automations - so they happen at 8am Monday and 5pm Friday without me triggering them. That part is in the writeup along with five more prompts I run weekly (the Monday briefing, lead research, inbox processor, client reports, SOP builder). Free here if it helps. If you only set up one this week, do the Friday review. The first time you go into a weekend without unresolved work bouncing around in your head is the moment this whole approach clicks. submitted by /u/Professional-Rest138
Originally posted by u/Professional-Rest138 on r/ArtificialInteligence