Help me close the day. Ask me four short questions, one at a time, and wait for my answer before moving to the next: 1. What actually shipped today (not what you intended)? 2. What stalled, and what is the specific blocker? 3. What surprised you - a signal you didn't expect? 4. What does tomorrow's you need to know in one sentence? When I've answered all four, format the responses as a dated journal entry I can save.
End-of-day review
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Example output
End of day, 2026-04-26:
Shipped: seo audit doc, marketing pack research, power prompts pack draft.
Stalled: the import-as-pack iOS bug. Blocked on: SwiftData migration question I haven't asked the team about yet.
Surprised by: how much of the marketing-pack research was 'audit competitors' vs. 'understand the audience.' The audience signal was thinner than I expected.
Tomorrow's me needs to know: finish power-prompts pack, then cut Tier 1 marketers pack from 8 to 5 prompts and ship - quality > coverage.
Common mistakes
Don't pad the 'shipped' list with admin work to feel productive - if you only shipped two real things, write two. Inflated lists make the ritual useless within a week. Also: 'tomorrow's me needs to know' is the most valuable section, but only if you actually read it tomorrow morning. Pair this prompt with a morning command that surfaces yesterday's note - otherwise it's a journal, not a tool.
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Why it works
End-of-day reviews are the highest-leverage daily ritual in knowledge work, and the one most people skip because they don't have a structure. This prompt provides one. It produces four artifacts: what actually shipped (not what you intended), what stalled (with the specific blocker), what surprised you (the under-noticed signal), and the one thing tomorrow's you needs to know. Done daily for a month, you will see patterns - the same blocker, the same person, the same hour of the day - that no annual review will ever surface. Pair this with the morning prioritization prompt to close the loop.