Session Handoff and Nightly Diary Routine
Used on my capstone work since early October.
A routine that records what was done, what got stuck and what is next at the end of each AI session, then turns those notes into a short diary entry each night.
- Why
- I wanted a daily record that does not depend on my memory and shows the founders what is done and what is stuck.
How I built it
- At the end of a session I run a handoff that lists what was done, what got stuck and what is next, and asks about work in other tools.
- I read every line before it is saved to my inbox file in the repository.
- A nightly routine reads that file and the day's commits and writes a diary entry of up to 300 words.
- Guest names, contact details and quotes are kept out.
- To copy it you need
- Keep the notes short, write them at the end of each session, and give the routine a rule that it never makes up what is missing.
Try it yourself
Copy this prompt and paste it into ChatGPT or Claude to try it yourself.
I want to build a small version of the handoff and diary routine from Jovan Diaz's What Are We Building? profile. At the end of each AI session it writes what was done, what got stuck and what is next, and he reads every line before it is saved. A nightly routine turns those notes into a short first-person entry and never invents what is missing. His gotcha: a drafted line once claimed something that never happened. Help me set up a notes file, then ask what I worked on today and draft my first three lines. Ask me for anything you need.
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