The four heights
The same task, four distances: today's deadline, the next reviewer, the stuck moment, the pattern.
Execute — do the immediate task
+Find the email from Raj Patel about the pricing exception. Search my mail for messages with subject…
Execute — do the immediate task
+Find the email from Raj Patel about the pricing exception. Search my mail for messages with subject containing pricing exception from Raj Patel sent this month and open the most recent message so I can act on his request now.
Pasted it? When the reply comes back, push once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part. — Did this prompt help?
Improve — make it easier to accept
+Before I forward Raj Patel’s pricing exception to the sales director, surface the key facts: pull…
Improve — make it easier to accept
+Before I forward Raj Patel’s pricing exception to the sales director, surface the key facts: pull the most recent message from Raj Patel this month that mentions pricing exception, show the quoted price and any attached spreadsheet, and highlight any follow-up he asked for so I can summarize quickly.
Pasted it? When the reply comes back, push once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part. — Did this prompt help?
Decide — diagnose the stuck moment
+I just ran a search for Raj Patel and pricing exception and got seven results this month, some…
Decide — diagnose the stuck moment
+I searched and got too many messages from Raj.
I just ran a search for Raj Patel and pricing exception and got seven results this month, some about different deals. I don’t know which thread mentions the specific $12,000 SKU he referenced. What is the best way to isolate the message that contains that price and confirm it’s the one he expects me to act on?
Pasted it? When the reply comes back, push once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part. — Did this prompt help?
Become — change the pattern
+I repeatedly waste time hunting for Raj Patel’s pricing messages because my searches return…
Become — change the pattern
+Searches return lots of similar messages and slow me down.
I repeatedly waste time hunting for Raj Patel’s pricing messages because my searches return overlapping threads. Where should I change my habit — in how I write subject lines, how I file messages, or how I instruct colleagues to reference deals — and what single habit change will cut this search time in half?
Pasted it? When the reply comes back, push once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part. — Did this prompt help?
Next to this one
Other email work people do in Gmail.
Every task here came from the work, not from a feature list — which is why the prompts name what you want done and never the button that does it. The tool changes; the work does not.
Copyright © LLOS.ai · 2026 — original pedagogy, voice, and design — all rights reserved.
The rest of the map
Same library, five ways in.