Where the week actually went
A weekly audit of how your time was really spent, in categories honest enough to argue with
- Runs while your laptop is closed
- Reports in Littlebird and by email
- Free plan includes 5 routines
Meetings took 18 of your 42 hours, and focus work got nine.
- The rest: 11 hours went to email, and four fit no clear category.
- Priorities: five focus hours went to the Perch & Partners proposal, your top priority, and the Q4 budget got none.
- Try first: the two weekly status meetings took three hours, and one could become a written update.
The problem
Time management advice assumes you know where your time goes. Almost nobody does. The estimate and the reality differ by hours, and the estimate always wins.
Meetings feel shorter than they are. Email feels quicker than it is. Deep work feels longer than it ever was. The calendar remembers all of it.
What it does
Every week, this routine audits your actual time: meetings, focus work, communication, and the unclassifiable rest, laid out in plain categories.
One honest look per week changes behavior faster than any system. The biggest surprise becomes the first fix.
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 audit my week: how did I actually spend my time and was it aligned with my priorities
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 track everything I do?
It works from your calendar and the broad work patterns the Mac or Windows app captures, in categories, not keystrokes.
What do people usually change?
Start with one move, such as killing a meeting, defending a block, or containing an email window.
Can it run monthly instead?
Yes. Switch the schedule to monthly, or to daily, weekdays, or weekly.
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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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