How to build a weekly routine with AI
Pick one fixed slot in the week, hook it onto something you already do, and always spend it on the same three tasks: what you have to write, what you have to read, and what you have to plan. Close with ten minutes of review to save what worked. Without a fixed slot and a hook, the habit dies in week two.
Slot and hook
The classic mistake is resolving to "use AI more". That is not a routine, it is an intention. A routine has a day, a time and a hook: "Mondays, after coffee, before opening email". The hook is the bit people skip and the bit that makes it work: you stop depending on remembering and start depending on something you already do without thinking.
The same three tasks
They are always the same three on purpose. A routine whose contents change every week never becomes automatic.
The ten-minute review
At the end, two questions: which request worked well — that one gets saved with gaps in it, it is a template — and what did I have to correct three times, which is a job to break into steps. Four weeks in you will have half a dozen templates of your own, and that is when the routine starts giving time back.
An honest measure
Do not count how often you opened the chat. Count how many of the three tasks above actually got done that week. Two out of three for a month means it is working. Zero for two weeks running is not a willpower problem: it is the slot you picked, and the slot has to change.
Habits are not held up by enthusiasm: they are held up by a fixed slot and three tasks that never change.