Your 30-day plan and time tracker
Start here: Try a task first. Enter preparation, prompting and checking time on one row. Compare with similar work and keep a useful method or a clear reason to change it.
Use this only when you want to compare effort. Try a familiar task, count preparation and checking as well as prompting, and decide whether you would use the method again.
Use this for: choosing a small routine and finding out whether it helps. Work through the weeks at a pace that fits; use the stages to organize your practice.
Choose the stage that serves your next job; these are not weekly assignments.
| When you want to… | Try… | Keep only… |
|---|---|---|
| Get comfortable | The first-use walkthrough (opens in a new tab) | A plan and useful correction |
| Repeat a useful job | Change the facts in one saved prompt | The version you would use again |
| Involve your team | The ready-to-run demonstration (opens in a new tab) | A colleague's question or improvement |
| Decide whether to continue | Compare effort on similar work | What helped, or the reason to stop |
Copy one entry per task:
Date and task:
Usual time for a comparable task (estimate):
With AI: gather and prompt:
With AI: edit and verify:
Total with AI:
Estimated time saved or added:
What was wrong or missing:
Final result used, discarded or still pending:
What I will change next time:
Worked example: A message usually takes 12 minutes. Gathering and prompting took 2 minutes; editing and checking took 4. Total with AI: 6 minutes. Estimated saving: 6 minutes. If a second attempt took 15 minutes, record 3 minutes added. Do not count only the typing time or extrapolate a single result into guaranteed monthly savings.
Measure the task you tried
Use this for any repeated school task or your own planning routine. Compare similar work, count prompting plus editing and checking, and note whether you used the result. If it took longer but clarified a worthwhile decision, record that benefit honestly. Keep no routine just to complete four weeks.