Personal Assistant Recipes life-admin · No. 38

my podcast app was chaos. my ai looked at my listening history, found the series i started but never finished, and listed exactly which episodes i'm missing

From a conversation with my assistant, 22 September 2026

Recipe No. 38

Untangle Your Podcast Backlog: What You Started and Never Finished

Serves Podcast listeners with dozens of half-played series

Review podcast listening history to find series started but not finished, list the missing episodes clearly, and set an order to finish what is already downloaded first.

You will need

Method

  1. Ask the agent to read your listening history and list series you started but did not finish.

  2. For each, have it list the exact missing episodes, made very clear (number and title).

  3. Decide which series to finish and which to drop; download only the ones you keep.

  4. Ask it to queue what is already downloaded first, then start fresh series after.

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