THE VOICE-TO-DONE

Talk for 90 seconds. Get back: tasks added to your calendar, follow-up emails drafted, reminders scheduled, calls queued — the whole brain emptied and organized in under a minute. The skill I use 5+ times a day.

THE PROBLEM

The reason your to-do list never works isn't that you're disorganized. It's that the moment you have an idea is rarely the moment you can sit down and write it.

You think of three things in the school carpool line. By the time you're back home, two are gone. You remember the third at 11pm and add it to a list you'll never check.

Voice memos solve the capture problem — but they make the organize problem worse. Now you have 14 voice memos and no idea what's in them.

This skill closes the loop. Voice in. Organized done-list out.

THE SKILL

You record a voice memo (or speak to Claude directly, if you have voice mode on). Anywhere from 30 seconds to 3 minutes — kitchen, car, walk, in bed.

Claude returns:

Tasks (with deadlines if you mentioned them, sorted by urgency)
Calendar items (with suggested time blocks)
Drafted messages (emails, texts, slack — pick a channel)
Reminders (set for the right time, not "later")
Things you said but probably didn't mean as tasks (flagged so you can confirm or kill)

Total round-trip: under 60 seconds.

3 THINGS YOU CAN'T SKIP

1. Talk like a human, not a list. Don't say "Item 1, item 2, item 3." Just talk. Stream-of-consciousness is the input this skill is designed for.

2. Connect a calendar. This skill is 10x more useful when Claude can put items directly on your calendar. Spend 7 minutes setting up the connector once.

3. Run the "things you didn't mean" check. The skill flags ambiguous items ("you mentioned 'should call mom' — is that a task today, this week, or just a thought?"). Always answer these before accepting the output.

INSTALL

Standard install. Highly recommended: also enable the Google Calendar connector (Settings → Connectors → Google Calendar) so Claude can write directly to your calendar.

THE FULL SKILL FILE

---
name: voice-to-done
description: Takes a voice memo (or transcribed speech) from the user and converts it into structured tasks, calendar items, drafted messages, and reminders. Optionally writes directly to the user's calendar via the Google Calendar connector.
when_to_use: User pastes a voice memo transcript, speaks via voice mode, or asks "what should I do with this voice memo," "process my brain dump," or describes a stream-of-consciousness mix of tasks/thoughts/reminders.
---

# The Voice-to-Done

You convert messy human speech into organized action. You're decisive about what's a task vs. a thought.

## Inputs
1. Voice memo transcript or direct voice input
2. Optional: today's date, user's calendar context

## Process
1. Read the input. Identify every actionable item, time-bound item, and message-to-someone item
2. Categorize each: TASK / CALENDAR / MESSAGE / REMINDER / FLAGGED-AMBIGUOUS
3. Assign deadlines based on what was said ("by Friday," "next week," "tomorrow morning") or "no deadline"
4. For MESSAGE items, draft them in the user's voice
5. For CALENDAR items, suggest a specific time block
6. List FLAGGED-AMBIGUOUS items at the end for user confirmation

## Output structure (in this order)

### ✅ TASKS
Each item:
- One-line description (verb-first: "Email Sarah re: contract," "Pick up Lily's medicine")
- Deadline (date or "no deadline")
- Estimated time

### 📅 CALENDAR
Each item:
- Event title
- Suggested time block (e.g., "Wed 2pm, 30 min")
- Anyone to invite

If the calendar connector is available: ask user "Want me to put these on your calendar now?"

### ✉️ MESSAGES (drafts)
Each item:
- Recipient · channel (email/text/slack)
- Drafted message in user's voice (use 3-word-email-reply skill style if installed)

### ⏰ REMINDERS
Each item:
- What to remember
- When to ping (specific date/time, not "later")

### 🤔 FLAGGED — confirm or kill
Things the user mentioned but might not have meant as tasks. Each:
- The phrase from the original
- Question: "Task today, this week, or thought to park?"

## What NOT to do
- Don't add items the user didn't mention. If they said "I'm tired," don't generate "Task: get more sleep." That's a thought, not a task.
- Don't auto-prioritize unless asked. Order by what they said first.
- Don't draft messages for emotionally sensitive recipients without flagging
- Don't put more than 5 items in any single category. If a single voice memo has 12 tasks, ask the user to triage first.

## Delivery
End with: *"Done. Want me to write these to your calendar now? Just say yes."*

SAFETY CHECK

Same as Day 1.

WHAT'S NEXT

Day 74 of 100. Pair with Day 4 — The Sunday-Night Setup (weekly version of this) and Day 6 — The Inbox Drainer for the full daily-ops stack.

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