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Moving checklist

A week-by-week moving checklist, from getting quotes to the first night in your new place. Tick it off here, print it, or import it into Done in one paste.

Moving is a project with a hard deadline and a hundred small tasks, most of which only matter if they're done early enough. This checklist works back from moving day, so each task sits in the week it's actually due.

Import it into Done and every line becomes a task in a Moving project. The research ones — comparing movers, finding storage — are a good fit for an agent that can browse the web.

6–8 weeks before

4 weeks before

2 weeks before

Moving week

After the move

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Use it in Done

  1. Press Copy and open Done. The template goes onto your clipboard as a list.
  2. In Done, open Settings → Data → Import and choose Paste a list.
  3. Paste it, check the preview and import. The heading becomes a project called “Moving”, and each line becomes a task.

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How to use this template

  1. Start six to eight weeks out, or as early as you can.
  2. Work through each stage in order and tick tasks off as they're done.
  3. Anything you can't finish in its week moves to the next one — just don't let it slip past moving day.

Hand it to your agent

Connect Done to Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client (it takes a minute), then paste this prompt. Your agent works through Done's own tools, under the same approval gate as everything else.

Fill in the parts in [brackets] before you send it.

Work only through the Done MCP connector, on my Done account.

I'm moving on [moving date]. Turn this checklist into a project:

1. Call create_project to make a project called "Moving".
2. Call create_task for each item below, in that project, with a due_date worked back from my moving date: the "6–8 weeks before" items seven weeks out, "4 weeks before" four weeks out, and so on. Items under "After the move" are due the week after.
3. Give priority "urgent" to the items with a long lead time: getting quotes, booking the movers, mail forwarding and switching utilities.
4. Don't create anything twice — call list_tasks first and skip what's already there.

End with the tasks that are due in the next seven days.

6–8 weeks before:
- Set a moving budget
- Get quotes from at least three movers or book a van
- Declutter what you won't take with you
- Ask for time off for moving day

4 weeks before:
- Book the movers
- Order boxes and packing tape
- Start packing the rooms you use least
- Book storage if you need it

2 weeks before:
- Update your address with your bank and employer
- Set up mail forwarding
- Arrange to switch over your utilities and internet
- Confirm the date and time with the movers

Moving week:
- Pack a first-night box of essentials
- Defrost the freezer
- Take meter readings and photos at the old place
- Hand back the keys

After the move:
- Take meter readings at the new place
- Unpack the kitchen and the bedroom first
- Update your address everywhere else
- Find a local doctor and dentist

Tools this prompt calls

  • create_project
  • create_task
  • list_tasks

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