3 things claude caught this week

+ a $20 thing i won't shut up about

i tried something on friday afternoon that i think i’m going to do every friday forever.

i opened claude on my phone in the daycare pickup line and said: “based on my calendar next week, what’s the one thing i’m probably forgetting? include kid stuff, work stuff, and household stuff.” then i pasted in my calendar.

claude flagged 3 things i would have walked into this week not knowing.

my kid’s well-check on wednesday. forgot.

a work deliverable due tuesday that i had floating in my brain but not on monday’s list.

and the fact that we were out of formula (lifesaver, genuinely).

10 minutes. one prompt. 3 things i would have DROPPED.

paste-ready if you want it:

“based on my calendar [paste], what’s the one thing i’m probably forgetting? include kid-related, work-related, household.”

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what didn’t work this week: trying to do my sunday reset on saturday morning. i thought i was being efficient. all i actually did was steal my saturday morning AND still feel behind on monday because my brain didn’t believe the reset counted unless it happened on sunday.

filed under: working mom things that look productive but aren’t.

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what i bought: the weighted eye mask i talk about all the time → i lost mine somewhere between austin and my parents’ house and didn’t realize how much it was helping me fall asleep until it was gone. ordered a new one and i’m back to falling asleep in under 10 minutes instead of laying there listening to my brain run through the week ahead.

it’s like $20. genuinely the best $20 i spend on my mental load every few months.

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last thing. a working mom dm’d me this week and said:

“i feel like i’m failing because i can’t even fail correctly. i can’t keep up enough to even know what i’m DROPPING.”

i think that’s one of the truest sentences anyone has sent me. the mental load is keeping track of what you have and haven’t gotten to. the doing is the easy part. the tracking is what’s killing us.

more on this in tuesday’s prompt drop.

xx

p.s. quick one if you haven’t seen it. the Mental Load Performance Review is a 7-category audit that gives you your actual mental load score. takes about 12 minutes and it’s $27 → MENTAL LOAD PERFORMANCE REVIEW