Personal Assistant Recipes ops · No. 35
there's a class of tasks i put off but they keep following up with me… IMPORTANT, but not URGENT
— @sifxtreme, 21 September 2026

Recipe No. 35

Weaponize Persistence on Important-but-Not-Urgent Work

Serves Chronic postponers (most of us)

Use persistent follow-ups so put-off but important tasks get chipped away.

You will need

Method

  1. Hand the agent 5–10 parked tasks with success criteria.

  2. Set a polite but relentless follow-up cadence.

  3. Allow 'not today' replies that auto-reschedule without guilt.

  4. Celebrate closed items in a weekly scoreboard.

See also

  1. 20
    every sunday night my ai distills the week's chats into a living doc of what i want and how i like things done. ranges, never hard numbers Have Your Assistant Write Down Who You Are, Every Sunday Night · from a chat
  2. 12
    asked my ai for inbox zero. three minutes later: 232 archived, all labeled, nothing deleted, nothing sent, plus the short list of things that actually needed me Get to Inbox Zero by Archiving, Not Deleting · from a chat
  3. 3
    i drive a lot, so i tell my ai 'audio notes only for the next 30 minutes' and it switches back to text when the timer is up Put Your Assistant in Voice-Only Mode for the Drive · from a chat