New Year reflection from notes
Turn supplied year-end notes into a balanced reflection with actual achievements, difficulties and lessons. Add your real source details before generating the draft. Paste this prompt into ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or Grok, change the parts in brackets to suit you, and generate.
- Written for
- ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok
- Occasion
- New Year · 1 Jan 2027
- Status
- Tested 9 Oct 2026 in Grok, 9 Oct 2026 (one run; model id not exposed)
- Test settings
- The page's exact default prompt was run once in Grok on 9 Oct 2026. The text in Your notes is an illustration, not a real event. ChatGPT and Gemini were not used. The first result was kept.
- Variability
- Another run, or different notes, will change the wording. This is the first result for the illustrative notes on this page.
Prompt
Turn supplied year-end notes into a balanced reflection with actual achievements, difficulties and lessons. Input: use only the notes at the end. If a fact this job needs is missing, ask one direct question and do not guess. Format for New Year reflection from notes: 1. Do not invent milestones or force a positive framing. Do not add facts, names, dates, numbers or sources that are not in the notes. Notes: Rowan wrote these lines in December. Only those lines are used. Done: night-shift certificate finished 3 August; last 200 EUR of the dentist bill paid in October; Thursday calls with Dad kept in 9 of 12 months. Hard: March rent four days late; ceramic class stopped after week 5 because of the new shift; an argument with Ellis in June and no talk since. Rowan's own lessons, not polished: "I need the bill date in the phone," and "I do not want another class on a work night." Not on the pages, so not added: a promotion, a reunion with Ellis, or a claim that the year improved. The late rent and the silence remain. The class and that friendship did not recover here.
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Example output
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Rowan wrote these lines in December. Only those lines are used. Nothing is added to force a positive frame. Achievements the pages record: night-shift certificate finished 3 August; last 200 EUR of the dentist bill paid in October; Thursday calls with Dad kept in 9 of 12 months. Difficulties the pages record: March rent four days late; ceramic class stopped after week 5 because of the new shift; an argument with Ellis in June and no talk since. Lessons in Rowan's own words, not polished: "I need the bill date in the phone," and "I do not want another class on a work night." Not on the pages, so not added: a promotion, a reunion with Ellis, or a claim that the year improved. The late rent and the silence remain. The certificate and the bill payment happened. The class and that friendship did not recover here.
How to use it
- Open ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok or Claude.
- Paste the prompt and replace the [BRACKETS] with your details.
- Review names, facts and the requested format; follow up with corrections or missing details.
How to use this prompt
- Fill Customise with your real details. Do not let the tool guess a missing fact. Write the missing information clearly if you need to.
- Press Copy prompt and paste it into the AI app named above. This page copies the prompt. The answer is created in the external app.
- Check names, facts, numbers, language and the format you asked for. If something is wrong or incomplete, ask for a correction.
Good to know
- Written and structurally reviewed as an editable prompt; not independently run in a named AI app. Supply the requested source facts and verify the draft before use. A visual preview shows the task format, not an AI-tested result. The notes in Your notes are an example, not a real event. Run once in Grok on 9 Oct 2026. Replace the notes with your own before you use the draft.
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