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Write a letter to your future self or child
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The prompt · ChatGPT
Help me write a letter to my future self or child. Who will read it: [future me / my child when they're X] Open date: [year or age] What's true in my life now: [messy notes] What I hope they know: [values, love, context] Tone: [warm, honest, light] Ask me up to 3 short questions first if anything important is missing. Wait for my answers. Then: 1. A letter draft from my notes. 2. Extra prompts if I want to add a PS. 3. Ideas for where to keep it. 4. A shorter card version. Only use what I've told you, leave blanks for anything I haven't given, and don't invent facts, diagnoses or legal outcomes. UK English. Stay in this ChatGPT chat. Do not turn on apps or connectors, and do not use memory from another chat.
A short example
Fill the blanks, then paste. future me / my child when they're X: a short note you already have. year or age: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.
The prompt · Copilot
Help me write a letter to my future self or child. Who will read it: [future me / my child when they're X] Open date: [year or age] What's true in my life now: [messy notes] What I hope they know: [values, love, context] Tone: [warm, honest, light] Ask me up to 3 short questions first if anything important is missing. Wait for my answers. Then: 1. A letter draft from my notes. 2. Extra prompts if I want to add a PS. 3. Ideas for where to keep it. 4. A shorter card version. Only use what I've told you, leave blanks for anything I haven't given, and don't invent facts, diagnoses or legal outcomes. UK English. Stay in this Copilot chat. Leave plugins off, and do not open a file from OneDrive.
A short example
Fill the blanks, then paste. future me / my child when they're X: a short note you already have. year or age: a short note you already have. Leave the rest of the prompt as written.
You choose audience and when they'll open it.
The assistant asks what matters now.
You get prompts and a drafted letter from your answers.
What happens
Use Copilot to write a letter to your future self or child
You want to capture this season of life. Get promptsThe instructions you paste into an AI chat. Replace only the words in [brackets]. and a letter structure you can seal for later.
Tools
Paste the prompt, fill the blanks, copy the draft.
- Microsoft Copilot — required. Drafts from the text you paste. Nothing is sent.
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