Prompt library
48 prompts for freelancers
Sentences to say to Claude or ChatGPT: plan your day and week, log your hours, invoice and follow up with clients. Copy one, or say it in your own words.
Plan your day
Start the day with a clear picture: what's on, what's urgent, and how much time you really have.
What's on my schedule today?
How much free working time do I have left today, between my meetings?
Suggest a focus for today: three to five tasks that fit in my free time, and set it once I agree.
What's most urgent today, and which deadlines are coming up this week?
Start the timer on the Acme proposal.
Block two hours this afternoon for the Lumen Coffee design, wherever my calendar has room.
Plan your week
Spread your work across the days before the week starts, so deadlines don't land at the last minute.
Plan my week: spread my open tasks across the days, deadlines first and within my free time.
Which day this week is too full, and what can I move to another day?
Find three free two-hour blocks this week for deep work on the Northwind project.
Plan next week: what needs finishing for Halcyon Labs, and when will I do it?
How many hours of work are planned this week, and how much free time is left?
Move the tasks I didn't finish today to tomorrow.
Tasks and projects
Capture work while it's in your head, with the right client, due date and priority.
Create a task: send the follow-up quote to Acme, due Friday, high priority.
Create a project 'Website relaunch' for Northwind, with a 40-hour budget and a 15 December deadline.
Create a recurring task: review my hours on the first working day of every month.
Which Lumen Coffee tasks are still open, and which ones haven't moved in a while?
How much of the 'Website relaunch' hour budget has been used?
Save this link with the Halcyon Labs project: the Figma design for the homepage.
Track time
Log your hours in one sentence, even afterwards. Dowit puts them back to back in your working day, against the right client.
1h Acme, 30m Northwind.
Yesterday I spent three hours on the Lumen Coffee design.
Stop the timer.
My timer kept running yesterday: stop it at the end of my working day.
How many hours did I work this week, per client?
Which days last week have no hours logged yet?
Invoicing and client reports
Know exactly what you can invoice. Dowit doesn't create invoices, but gives you the hours and amounts for your own invoicing tool.
What do I still need to invoice?
Put together the Northwind client report for October: hours per project and what I did each day.
How many hours did I work for Acme this month, and what does that come to at my rate?
Set Lumen Coffee's hourly rate to 85.
Close October for Northwind: I've sent the invoice.
Reopen September for Halcyon Labs, the invoice needs changing.
Follow-ups and reminders
Don't drop the ball: a reminder sits in your calendar and notifies you at the right moment.
Remind me on Friday at 9:30 to call Sam about the quote.
Remind me every two weeks to follow up with Northwind.
Which reminders are still open?
Move the Acme reminder to Monday.
What do I need to follow up with my clients this week?
Search my tasks, projects and notes for everything about 'logo'.
Meetings
Schedule meetings around your calendar, and wrap them up without forgetting anything.
Find a free hour tomorrow for a call with Sam and put it in my calendar.
Move the Lumen Coffee workshop to Thursday at 2pm.
Wrap up the Northwind meeting I just had: log the time, add what we agreed to the project log and turn the actions into tasks.
Which meetings this week have no hours logged yet?
Add to the Acme log: we went with the light version of the design.
What's in my calendar tomorrow, and where do I still have time for work?
Weekly review and end of day
Close your day and your week on purpose: what's done, what's left, and what's coming up.
Wrap up my day: what's done, what's still open, and which hours are missing?
Do my weekly review: what did I finish, how many hours per client, and what's been sitting for a while?
Which projects were quiet this week?
Which deadlines and reminders are coming up until the end of next week?
Suggest the focus for Monday.
Tidy up: which old tasks can I move to 'Someday' or delete?
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Frequently asked questions
Do these prompts work without Dowit?
Claude or ChatGPT can help you think, but without a connection your AI doesn't know your calendar, tasks or hours. With Dowit connected, your AI actually carries out the sentence: the task is created, the block is in your calendar, the hours are with the right client.
Do I need to use the exact wording?
No. They're examples: say it in your own words, with your own clients and projects. Your AI understands what you mean.
Which AI does it work with?
With Claude and ChatGPT. You connect Dowit once as a connector or app, and then you can type these sentences straight into the chat.
Does Dowit create my invoices too?
No. Dowit gives you the hours and amounts per client and per month. You create the invoice itself in your own accounting or invoicing tool.
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