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Find what I am waiting on and who owes me
Threads where you sent something and nothing came back.
From the threads below, find everything currently waiting on someone else. For each: what was asked, who owes it, when it was asked, how long it has been, and whether a deadline was stated or implied. Sort by how overdue it is against how much it matters. Flag anything where the ball is actually back with me and I have misremembered it as waiting — that case is common and worth catching. For the three most overdue, draft a one-line chase that does not apologise for chasing. Threads:
Making it yours
- Paste your own material where the prompt asks for it. Everything above that line is instruction, not content.
- Delete any rule that does not apply to you. A shorter prompt that fits beats a thorough one that does not.
- If the answer comes back vague, add a line saying what you do not want. Constraints work better than encouragement.
Triage and actions. Turning a backlog into the few things that genuinely need you, with everything else named and dismissed.
Related prompts
Turn this backlog into a short listSeveral hundred unread messages and no idea where to start.Extract every promise I madeFinding the things you agreed to in passing and never wrote down.Summarise a thread I have been added to lateForty messages deep, and you have just been copied in.Pull every date out of my inboxDeadlines, renewals and appointments scattered across weeks of mail.Check whether this email is a scamA message that looks official and is asking you to do something.List every service I have an account withYou have signed up for hundreds of things over a decade and have no idea what they are.
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