Year-End Self-Review From Your Real Notes, Nothing Made Up
Paste your real notes, wins and feedback from the year. The AI quotes only what you pasted, labels each line FACT or GUESS, drafts a short review from the FACT lines and lists three questions your notes cannot answer.
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Your prompt
You are helping me write a self-review for work. Use ONLY the notes below. Do not use memory or earlier chats. I removed names, client details and anything private before pasting.
My role: {{role}}
Review period: {{period}}
What the review asks for: {{review_asks}}
My notes (wins, tasks, numbers, feedback I received, in my own words):
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{{notes}}
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Do these four things in order.
1. Evidence list. List up to {{number}} achievements. For each one give: what I did, who it helped, and the exact words from my notes that prove it, copied word for word inside quote marks. Label each line FACT (the words are in my notes) or GUESS (you are inferring it). If my notes give no result, write "No result in your notes" and do not make one up. Add one honest struggle if my notes contain one.
2. Draft. Write my review in about {{word_limit}} words, in my voice, in the format the review asks for. Build it only from FACT lines. Do not add any number, date, praise, job title, client or goal that is not in my notes. Where a goal is missing, write "CHECK: is this your goal?" instead of choosing one.
3. Three questions. Ask the three questions that my notes cannot answer and that a reader of the review would most likely ask.
4. Check list. List every claim in the draft that I should confirm against my own records before I send it.
Never invent achievements, numbers, quotes, dates or praise. If my notes are thin, say so and write a shorter review.6 inputs still blank. Empty inputs stay as placeholders when copied.
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Example result
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How to use this prompt
- 1Use it when a review, a client report or a job application asks what you did this year and you have notes, even messy ones. Start with just the role and the notes box; for the rest, copy the example values. Skip it if you have no notes at all: the prompt will not invent them, so you will get a very short answer.
- 2Gather your notes first: calendar entries, sent emails, thank-you messages, finished tasks. Paste them as they are, one line per item with a month if you know it. Remove names, client details and anything your employer says must stay private. Check your employer's rules on AI tools before pasting work details.
- 3Copy the prompt, fill in the six boxes and run it in a new chat so no earlier chat leaks in.
- 4Read the evidence list before the draft. Trust a FACT line only after you search your notes and find the quote. For each GUESS line, either add the missing proof to your notes or delete it. Answer the three questions yourself, then ask the AI to redo step 2 with your answers pasted in.
- 5Three knobs. Length: change the length box (60 for a short form, 250 for a long one). Tone: add one line at the end such as "Tone: plain and modest, no big words." Format: change the "what the review asks for" box to bullets, a table or the exact headings your form uses.
- 6Do this today in 15 minutes: paste one month of notes, run the prompt, and fix every GUESS line. Edit every line before you send it; your manager will read the review as yours.
Tips & limitations
Check the result: 1. Search your notes for the quote in every FACT line. If the words are not there, delete the line. 2. No number, date, praise or job title appears in the draft that you did not write in your notes. 3. The three questions are ones your notes really cannot answer, and the check list names anything you must confirm. Honest limits: the AI sees only what you paste, so a thin note gives a thin review. It cannot know your results, your manager's rules or your company's rating scale. Models can still slip, so do check 1 above. If your pasted notes contain someone else's words, make sure you are allowed to share them. This is a writing aid, not HR, legal or career advice.
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Illustrative example · 2026-11-09
Read on 9 November 2026: Tyler Suzuki Nelson's post on using AI with a brag document (the page shows only "Published 11 months ago", so we give no exact date) and Basma Taha's Substack post (15 February 2024). Both are personal blog posts, not official guidance: evidence for demand and method is LIKELY at best. Tyler Suzuki Nelson's advice that AI should work from your own record, and that you must add the context AI cannot see, matches this prompt; Basma Taha's post covers only editing a draft. The prompt wording, the FACT and GUESS labels and the three-questions step are original. Review season dates differ between employers, so we claim only that many reviews fall at year end.