Free Template: Carry a Long Project Into a New Chat

The template

Paste this into the old chat, fill it in, and send the result as the first message of your new chat:

## Task continuation

**Goal:** (what this task is ultimately trying to achieve)

**Current focus:** (what you're working on right now)

**Confirmed decisions:**
- (decision + why, one per line)

**Completed work:**
- (done item, one per line)

**Excluded approaches:**
- (ruled-out route + reason, one per line)

**Unresolved / next step:**
- (where work stopped; the single next action)

How to fill it well

• Decisions need the “why” — without it, the new chat will relitigate them.
• Excluded needs the reason — otherwise the same idea returns wearing a different hat.
• Next step should be one action, not a roadmap. The new chat only needs to know where to start.

In the new chat

Paste the filled template, then add one line: “Review this state. Point out anything unclear before we continue.”

Never let the new chat silently reinterpret it.

Want this generated automatically before every chat switch? That's what TaskOnward does — save, restore, confirm.