← All use cases / Home & family
A mum of two holds a family meeting every Sunday night about the week ahead: what's coming up, what to celebrate and what needs sorting. Organising it in her head used to take 30 minutes, but now she asks Claude for an agenda based on what's coming and what her kids usually raise, which takes five minutes.
We hold a short family meeting every [DAY]. This week we have: [EVENTS, APPOINTMENTS, DEADLINES]. Things the kids often bring up: [TOPICS]. Something to celebrate: [WINS]. Something we need to sort out: [ISSUE]. Write a friendly 15-minute agenda with a fun opener, the week at a glance, one thing each person wants to talk about, and a short list of who's doing what.
Replace the [PLACEHOLDERS] with your own details before you send it.
How to try it
- Jot down the week’s events and anything bubbling up at home.
- Ask Claude for a short, friendly agenda and keep the same format each week.
- Run the meeting, note any decisions and paste them into next week’s prompt.
More home & family use cases
Keep a family’s scattered updates in one shared ChatGPT project
While his dad was unwell, a man, his four siblings and their parents were swamped by information from doctors and nurses spread across hundreds of texts, documents and scans. A shared ChatGPT project pulled it all into one place so the family could make sense of it and ask better questions, with Claude helping to summarise message threads and pull text from photographed documents.
Here are notes, messages and document text our family has collected about [SITUATION, E.G. DAD'S HOSPITAL STAY]: [PASTE OR UPLOAD]. Organise them into a clear timeline of what happened and who said what, list any decisions or appointments coming up, and write a list of questions we should ask [THE CARE TEAM] next time. Don't give medical advice or fill gaps with guesses; just mark anything unclear.
Compare wedding supplier contracts in another language with Claude
A couple planning a 154-guest wedding across venues in Mexico used Claude to compare supplier contracts written in Spanish, so they could make quick, informed choices, and to adjust the contracts to what they actually needed instead of going back and forth by email.
Here are [NUMBER] contracts from [TYPE OF SUPPLIER, E.G. FLORISTS], written in [LANGUAGE]: [PASTE OR UPLOAD]. In plain English, compare them side by side in a table: price, what's included, deposit and payment dates, cancellation terms, and anything unusual. Then suggest polite wording, in [LANGUAGE], to ask for these changes: [WHAT YOU NEED].
Plan a new flower border and its shopping list with Gemini
Replanting an almost empty border with perennials and spring bulbs, an allotment blogger gave Gemini the bed's measurements, location, aspect and her vision. After a long back-and-forth, discarding many suggestions, she had a planting plan plus a shopping list with estimated costs, nearby garden centres, planting instructions and yearly maintenance tasks.
I'm replanting a border that is [LENGTH] by [DEPTH], in [TOWN/REGION], facing [ASPECT], with [SOIL TYPE IF KNOWN]. I'd like [STYLE OR COLOURS], with interest from [SEASONS] and a budget of about [BUDGET]. Suggest a planting plan with where each plant goes, how many of each to buy, a shopping list with rough costs, simple planting instructions and a month-by-month care calendar. Ask me questions first if anything is unclear.
Reference: Hazel Quimpo (blog)