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
- Runs while your laptop is closed
- Reports in Littlebird and by email
- Free plan includes 5 routines
Four people are waiting on a reply, the longest for 12 days.
- Morgan Lee, 12 days: Morgan asked by email for your notes on the Tiny Nest Co. spring brief.
- Sam Ortiz, eight days: Sam asked in a chat thread whether the export fix can wait until next sprint.
- Also waiting: Dana Whitfield on an invoice question from Wednesday, and Brook Ellis on Thursday's request for launch photos.
The problem
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.
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.
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 Monday morning tell me who I'm ghosting across email and my messages
Why make it a routine?
A skill in an AI chat app 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.
It is the same idea without the choreography: the report lands in Littlebird or your inbox instead of a chat window you have to babysit.
Frequently asked questions
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, for example '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 independently audited for SOC 2 Type II, is GDPR and CCPA aligned, never sells your data, and never trains models on it.
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