How to plan your day with AI, in 10 minutes a day

Planning a day with AI takes about ten minutes: two minutes dumping everything in your head into an AI planner in plain sentences, three minutes correcting what it structured, dates, times, estimates, three minutes choosing at most three priorities for the day, and two minutes at night reviewing what happened without judgment. The AI's job is the clerical work. The choosing stays yours, because no model knows what you will regret not doing.

1. 1Dump (2 min). Everything in your head, in sentences, into the planner: "finish the slides by Thursday, gym at 7, reply to Nina, book the dentist sometime next week". Do not organize while dumping; that is the AI's job now.
2. 2Correct (3 min). Scan what the AI structured. Fix the one date it got wrong, bump an estimate you know is optimistic. Correcting is faster than creating, which is the entire trick.
3. 3Choose three (3 min). Pick at most three tasks that would make today a win. Everything else is a bonus. This is the step people skip and the step that matters most.
4. 4Review (2 min, evening). Check off what happened. Move what did not. No commentary, no catching up on guilt. Tomorrow's dump starts fresh.

• Letting the AI choose priorities. Models optimize for what sounds urgent, not what you value. Use AI for structure, never for meaning.
• Planning the whole day. Blocking eight of eight hours guarantees the plan dies by noon. Plan five, keep three loose. Our piece on the planning fallacy explains why your estimates lie.
• Re-planning as procrastination. If you have reorganized the same task three times, the task is either scary or wrong. Do two minutes of it right now, or delete it honestly.

Any AI planner can run this method. In Kairo the dump step is literally one text box that accepts a paragraph, and the choose step is the three-slot Spotlight, so the method is the interface.