Stop ghosting people without meaning to

A Monday-morning list of everyone waiting on you across email and the messages on your screen, before they follow up a third time.

Nobody means to ghost. Someone asks a question on a day you're slammed, you mentally file it under 'reply later,' and later never comes. Two weeks pass and now replying feels awkward, so the thread sinks.

Multiply that by email and Slack and there's a small crowd of people who think you're ignoring them.

THE ROUTINE

What it does

This routine runs every Monday morning. It scans your email and the messages on your screen for anything that asked something of you and never got a reply, then ranks them by how long they've been waiting.

One list, every week: who you're ghosting, since when, and what they asked. Ten minutes of replies clears the guilt and the reputation damage.

THE PROMPT

Try the prompt

Copy this prompt into a new Littlebird routine. Edit the days and times to fit your schedule.

COPY THIS PROMPT
Every Monday morning tell me who I'm ghosting across email and my messages
THE SETUP

Set it up in three steps

  1. Open Littlebird and go to Routines, then create a new routine.
  2. Paste the prompt above. Adjust the days and times to fit your schedule.
  3. Littlebird runs it on schedule from then on. Pause or edit it anytime with auto-pause.
VS. CHAT SKILLS

Why not just use a skill?

A Claude skill or a ChatGPT skill can approximate this -- if you remember to ask. Copy in your calendar, paste the thread, wait, then carry the answer back out of the chat tab.

Littlebird already has the context: your meetings, your inbox, your calendar, and what was on your screen. The routine runs on schedule whether you remember or not.

Same idea, no choreography. The output lands in your Gmail or your task list instead of a chat window you have to babysit.

FAQ

Does it judge tone or just timing?

It looks for unanswered questions and requests, then sorts by age. You decide who gets a reply and who gets closure.

Can it exclude certain people or channels?

Yes. Say so in the prompt -- 'ignore my cofounder' or 'skip the random channel' -- and it filters them out.

What does ghost detection cost?

It runs on the free Basic plan. Plus is $17 per month billed annually or $20 month to month with a 14-day free trial if you add more routines.

Is my message data private?

Completely. Littlebird is SOC 2 certified and GDPR-aligned and CCPA-aligned, never sells your data, and never trains models on it.

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