Napoleon's Three-Week Rule Inbox Cleanup
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Sep 30, 2026
Napoleon's Three-Week Rule Inbox Cleanup A prompt that applies Napoleon's historical three-week rule to modern inbox management, helping prioritize truly urgent items and identify what can be left to resolve itself.
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I want to clear my backlog with Napoleon's three-week rule. He only opened urgent letters and left the rest for three weeks, and by then four in five didn't need a reply. Don't help me answer everything. Instead, go through my list and tell me:
→ what's actually urgent and gets worse if I wait
→ what time will answer for me, and why
→ what someone else will sort out before I get to it
→ the one reply that moves things forward today
Don't call something urgent just because the sender sounds urgent. My inbox or to-do list [PASTE IT]
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