From a weekend to ten minutes.
This is a real issue, exactly as it landed in inboxes. A few hundred words, once a week.
There is one job in my month I used to dread. The invoicing for one of my companies. It ate a weekend, start to finish. Now it takes about ten minutes, and most of those minutes are me reading, not working.
This week's Build Note is the honest story of how that happened. The short version is that I did not automate the task one time. I turned it into a skill. The rate card lives in one place. The odd cases live in the process instead of in my head. So next month is not a rebuild, it is one instruction. Paste the log, say run it, done. A weekend a month is close to a hundred hours a year. I got most of that back, and I did not hire anyone to do it.
Read it here: From a Weekend to Ten Minutes
If you build things, there is something new this week. A free starter kit. A working rate card, a log parser, an invoice generator, and the skill file, all with invented sample data. Fill it with your own and next month bills itself. There is a small calculator on the page too, for the hours you would get back on your own recurring chore.
Get the kit: The invoice skill starter kit
Do the work once, carefully, and then stop doing it. That is the whole idea of building a system instead of grinding a task. It buys back your weekends.
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That's an issue. One a week, a few hundred words, no filler. If it reads like your kind of thing, the list is one field away.