Who this is for
Anyone whose focus is drained by a background hum of half-finished things they keep meaning to close.
The moment this saves you
I have a dozen half-open things, a reply I owe, a form I started, a question I meant to ask, and they all just hum in the background draining my focus without ever getting closed.
See it work
Messy spoken thought in. A clean, structured artifact out.
Open loops nagging at me. I owe a reply to that recruiter, been sitting in my inbox for a week. I started filling out the insurance form and never finished it. I told my friend I'd send her that article and never did. There's a half-written doc I abandoned that I should either finish or delete. I keep meaning to ask my manager about the conference budget. And there's a Slack thread I dropped out of that I should circle back to. Just getting these out of my head.
Open loops, June 5, 2026
- ☐ Reply to the recruiter (in inbox a week)
- ☐ Finish the insurance form (started, abandoned)
- ☐ Send my friend the article I promised
- ☐ Finish or delete the half-written doc
- ☐ Ask my manager about the conference budget
- ☐ Circle back to the Slack thread I dropped
The workflow
Record a voice note
Hit the hotkey and talk, no formatting, no typing.
Tag it with this context
Contextli shapes your words into the structured output above.
Find it later
Everything's searchable and organised by context.
Pull it into Claude or ChatGPT
Bring your contexts straight into your AI tools with the Contextli MCP.
Your raw recording and transcription stay on your device, so you can always go back to the original.
The prompt behind this context
I'm going to name the unfinished things nagging at me. Turn them into a dated checklist: a bold "Open loops, [today's date]" heading, then one markdown checkbox per open loop, phrased as the concrete next action to close it, keeping the brief context I give in parentheses. Merge duplicates. Don't invent loops or add commentary. Output only the checklist.
Make it your own. This is a starting point. Once it's in Contextli, tweak the instructions so the output comes out exactly how you like it.
Use this context
One tap adds it to your clipboard. Open Contextli and paste to add it.
Next, open Contextli, Contexts, Import, paste.
Make it your own. This is a starting point. Once it's in Contextli, tweak the instructions so the output comes out exactly how you like it.
Your raw recording and transcription stay on your device, so you can always go back to the original.
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