Make a prioritised before-and-after moving checklist and share it as a spreadsheet with ChatGPT and Gemini
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Lifehacker Japan's editor-in-chief Misa Maruyama, planning a May move within Shibuya, asked ChatGPT for a checklist of council paperwork and personal tasks before and after the move, ordered by urgency, with checkboxes and suited to someone who can only prepare evenings and weekends. Maruyama asked for a second list of personal tasks, then for both tables in a printable format, and pasted the result into a notes app. Trying the same in Gemini, they could export the table straight to Google Sheets to share tasks with household members, though the links didn't carry over.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Make me a prioritised checklist of official paperwork and personal tasks for before and after my move. Fill in before running: - Where I'm moving from and to: [AREAS] - Move date: [DATE] - When I can do tasks (for example evenings and weekends only): [TIME] - Who's moving with me: [HOUSEHOLD] Rules: - Split official procedures (council, address changes, utilities, post) from personal tasks. - Order each list by urgency and include the deadline or 'by when' for each item. - Add a checkbox column. - Format both tables so I can print them or paste them into a notes app or spreadsheet. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. Output: Two checklists (official and personal) in table form, ordered by urgency, with checkboxes. You'll know it worked when: every procedure is done by its deadline and nothing gets forgotten on moving day.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Make me a prioritised checklist of official paperwork and personal tasks for before and after my move. Fill in before running: - Where I'm moving from and to: [AREAS] - Move date: [DATE] - When I can do tasks (for example evenings and weekends only): [TIME] - Who's moving with me: [HOUSEHOLD] Rules: - Split official procedures (council, address changes, utilities, post) from personal tasks. - Order each list by urgency and include the deadline or 'by when' for each item. - Add a checkbox column. - Format both tables so I can print them or paste them into a notes app or spreadsheet. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. Output: Two checklists (official and personal) in table form, ordered by urgency, with checkboxes. You'll know it worked when: every procedure is done by its deadline and nothing gets forgotten on moving day.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Make me a prioritised checklist of official paperwork and personal tasks for before and after my move. Fill in before running: - Where I'm moving from and to: [AREAS] - Move date: [DATE] - When I can do tasks (for example evenings and weekends only): [TIME] - Who's moving with me: [HOUSEHOLD] Rules: - Split official procedures (council, address changes, utilities, post) from personal tasks. - Order each list by urgency and include the deadline or 'by when' for each item. - Add a checkbox column. - Format both tables so I can print them or paste them into a notes app or spreadsheet. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. - Mark anything that needs ID or an in-person visit, and keep links to the official pages. Output: Two checklists (official and personal) in table form, ordered by urgency, with checkboxes. You'll know it worked when: every procedure is done by its deadline and nothing gets forgotten on moving day. Before you finish: re-read my goal and constraints, check your answer against each one, and list anything you assumed or couldn't confirm.
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https://www.lifehacker.jp/article/2503_ai_workhack_moving_todo_list/
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