The AI Trick I Use to Review Yesterday’s Ideas and Tasks Every Morning

I get this email with work updates, content ideas, and today's priorities at exactly 2PM every day.

I talk to AI more than I talk to my husband these days—

And I text my husband every hour.

I have thousands of thoughts farting around in my brain every minute—and if I don’t let them out, I end up with creative migraines all afternoon. IYKYK.

The upside? I never run out of projects and content ideas!
The downside? Most brilliant ideas slip through the cracks overnight.

Well, they didn’t really disappear into oblivion. They’re inside the brain of my AI and it’s hard for me to browse back through our multiple chats.

I’ve been telling myself, “If only I can filter my AI’s memory and pluck out the best ideas, that would be great.”

And for days, I’ve failed.

Until I saw an AI ad that gave me a clue on how to do it. I’ve finally found the way how to do what I want to do perfectly… and it worked!

⏰ My 2PM AI reminder hack

Now, every day at 2 PM (which is basically my summer morning lol), AI sends me distilled notes. I call it: My Scatterbrain Log.

It’s a nice summary of yesterday’s ideas, categorized into:

• Recent Work Updates/Action Items

• Substack Content Ideas

• Today’s Focus (the AI helps me pick them up according to my monthly/yearly goals)

And, this is not even some elaborate AI agent or complicated setup. Just one tiny automated prompt in ChatGPT. 😭 (I love AI!)

🧠 Why it actually works (the psychology bit!)

This works because our brain hates loose ends.

Psychologists call this the Zeigarnik Effect—when we leave tasks unfinished, our minds hold onto them like open browser tabs, eating up mental bandwidth.

But here’s the twist: you don’t need to finish everything to feel calm. You just need a reliable system to store those ideas and a nudge to revisit what matters at the right time.

And THIS IS WHAT MY BRAIN WAS YEARNING FOR!!!

By reviewing ideas which are now neatly organized, you signal to your brain, “Hey, we’ve got this.” That lowers anxiety, frees up working memory, and makes it easier to focus on what’s next.

Add automation into the mix, and boom—your brain no longer carries yesterday’s mental baggage. You start the day clean, clear, and ready to create.

This simple automation has transformed my days:

• Calmness: No more frantic morning note-hunting.

• Focused: My slow mornings are even more enjoyable, knowing that at 2PM AI will send me a reminder and I will miss nothing. (FYI: I still do my daily to-dos on my Hobonichi.)

• No more creative migraines: My best ideas are no longer floating in my head — they’re captured, reviewed, and acted upon quickly, not lost in chaos, never to be lost into the void.

🤖 How to Set Up Your Own "Scatterbrain Log" Automation

It’s super simple, but you need to have these 2 things so this is gonna work for you:

• You chat a lot with ChatGPT. Not personal talks like a therapist. But more like as a work partner. You tell her random content ideas. Ask for advice whenever you’re stuck technically in client work. Ask it to critic your content. That kind of stuff.

• You need to be on ChatGPT Plus. The feature that we’re going to use is under this plan.

Now, when you’re ready, let’s go.

Here's how I set mine up in under 10 minutes: