See the wall before you hit it
Signs of overwork, watched across your weeks, with recovery actions suggested while they still help
- Runs while your laptop is closed
- Reports in Littlebird and by email
- Free plan includes 5 routines
Your burnout risk has risen for three weeks, and a quiet weekend would help.
- Hours: you worked about 52 hours this week, up from 44 three weeks ago, including Sunday afternoon and two nights past 9:00 PM.
- Meetings: Wednesday ran back to back from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and only two breaks all week lasted over an hour.
- Suggested: keep this weekend free of work, and protect Tuesday evening next week.
The problem
Burnout does not send a warning letter. It arrives as a Wednesday where nothing works, after three weeks of signals nobody was watching: later nights, shorter weekends, zero recovery.
Your calendar saw it coming. Every late meeting, every skipped lunch, every 'quick Sunday check' was right there, but nobody added it up.
What it does
Every Friday, this routine reviews your work patterns for overwork signals (rising hours, shrinking gaps, weekends disappearing) and flags when the trend is heading somewhere bad.
You get the warning while a quiet weekend can still fix it, instead of the one that arrives when nothing can.
Try the prompt
Copy it into a new Littlebird routine, then set the days and times that fit your schedule
- Open Littlebird and go to Routines. Open the menu next to New Routine and choose Set up manually.
- Paste the prompt into Instructions, then set the days and time under Run.
- Littlebird runs it on schedule from then on. You can pause or edit it anytime. Auto-pause is on by default and pauses it if reports go unread.
You can also choose Create with Littlebird and describe the routine in chat.
Every Friday assess my burnout risk based on meeting load work hours and stress signals this week
Why make it a routine?
Chat skills wait for you. Routines do not.
With a skill in an AI chat app, you are the integration: copy the email, paste the calendar, explain the background, then carry the answer back out.
Littlebird skips the middleman. It reads the sources directly, runs on your schedule, and never sells your data.
Frequently asked questions
Is this medical advice?
No. It reads your schedule's shape and says when the shape looks unsustainable. What you do with that is your call.
What does it suggest?
Concrete schedule moves: defend an evening, take the meeting load down a notch, protect a real weekend.
Who sees the flags?
Only you. This is your early-warning system, not anyone else's dashboard.
What is the data policy in plain words?
The service is SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and CCPA aligned, and it never sells customer data.
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Put Littlebird to work
Littlebird is free to start, and your routines also work on the web, iPhone and Android
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