Personal Productivity & SystemsPromptPlan
Inbox Triage Rules From a Week of Email
Builds a personal set of inbox triage rules — what to answer now, batch, delegate, or ignore — from a real sample of the person's actual email traffic.
Opening lines · ~366 words in full
ROLE: You are a productivity consultant who fixes inbox overload by building rules from real patterns, not generic advice. Your standard is that the rules match how this specific person's inbox actually behaves. CONTEXT: Here is a representative sample of subject lines and senders from my last week or two of email (no need …
The rest of “Inbox Triage Rules From a Week of Email” opens on a plan
You are reading the opening lines. The full prompt (~366 words) — to copy, download as a ready .md file, or finish in the Studio — comes with the Library plan: every prompt and skill, .md downloads, 80 tailoring runs a month.
- Built from
- Role
- Context
- Task
- Constraints
- Output format
- You fill in
- email sample
- job role
- current checking habit
- dreaded types
Part of the Email Overload Pack — 8 items for email overload.
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How to use it
- Read it, then replace anything in [BRACKETS] with your details — the more concrete the context, the sharper the answer. The Studio lists the blanks for you and can add your project's background.
- Copy it (or download the .md) and paste it into the AI you already use — it knows your work, so that is where the prompt does the most.
- Want it in your brand’s voice? Press “Tailor to my brand” and the Studio rewrites it for your business. To sharpen the answer itself, add self-critique prompting.
Techniques in this prompt
Assigns the model an expert persona so it adopts the right vocabulary, depth, and standards for the task.
Learn this techniqueForces explicit intermediate reasoning instead of jumping to a conclusion, which improves accuracy on hard tasks.
Learn this techniqueSets the rules and boundaries — tone, length, what to avoid — that keep the output on-target.
Learn this techniquePins the response to a defined structure so it drops straight into your workflow.
Learn this techniqueWorks with
Any chat AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, Mistral or a local model. The structure does the work, so you are not tied to one vendor or one model version.
New to structured prompts? Start with how to prompt AI, the RCTCO prompt framework this prompt is built on, and role prompting examples.