With so many apps offering some kind of year-end review, it only makes sense for OpenAI to drop one, too. Today, ChatGPT quietly rolled out a built-in year-end recap called Your Year with ChatGPT. If you’ve used ChatGPT regularly and have had your memory enabled all year, you may have already seen it.
The recap is a curated snapshot of how you interacted with ChatGPT over the past year. It highlights broad themes, usage patterns and moments meant to reflect how the AI supported your work, creativity or daily life. It's essentially ChatGPT’s version of a highlight reel or Spotify's Wrapped.
Although interesting and genuinely well done — mine started off with a poem — it's also limited. You can’t customize categories or separate work from personal life, and you don’t see how your prompting has evolved.
So after reading my recap, I did what any curious power user would do: I asked ChatGPT to go deeper.
With the right prompts, that high-level recap turns into something much closer to a true ChatGPT Wrapped — complete with stats, habits, highlights, chaos and even goals for next year.
Here’s how to do it:
1. Turn your recap into a full “ChatGPT Wrapped”
Start with this prompt to set the tone and pull everything together.
Prompt: Analyze my queries from this year and create a fun ‘ChatGPT Wrapped’ summary. Include categories like my top topics, most-used prompt style, funniest question, most chaotic question, most productive session, and any surprising habits you find. Format it like a Spotify Wrapped slide deck.
This expands the official recap into something far more personal. Instead of generic themes, you get insight into how you actually used ChatGPT — and what that says about you.
I love seeing some of my favorite prompts. In one slide, ChatGPT showed me a few of the funniest ones.
2. Break down what you actually use ChatGPT for
If the first prompt gives you vibes, this one gives you data.
Prompt: Look at my overall conversation patterns this year and categorize my prompts into buckets (ex: productivity, AI testing, personal life, journalism, parenting, creative writing, budgeting, etc.). Rank them by frequency and give me percentages.
This is where things get eye-opening. Many people assume ChatGPT is mostly a work tool — until they see how often it shows up in their personal life, late-night brainstorming or stress spirals (guilty!). It was really interesting to see how I use ChatGPT broken up into percentages.
3. See how your prompting evolved over time
One of the most overlooked parts of using AI is that you get better at it.
Prompt: Compare the way I prompted ChatGPT at the beginning of the year vs. now. What patterns, skills, or sophistication changed? Highlight what I’m better at, what became more efficient, and what new behaviors emerged.
ChatGPT can identify changes in clarity, structure, confidence and efficiency — essentially mapping your AI learning curve over the year. This is a great way to see how you've improved your prompts over the year.
4. Generate a highlight reel of your standout moments
This is where the recap gets entertaining.
Prompt: Based on my interactions, list 10 standout moments: smartest, funniest, most unhinged, most emotional, most technical, most mom-life, most Tom’s Guide-worthy, biggest win, biggest surprise, and one moment that deserves its own award.
If ChatGPT was there for big wins, bad days or your toughest questions you’d never Google, this prompt captures all of it in one scrollable list.
5. Ask for your personal ChatGPT stats
This prompt scratches the same itch as screen-time summaries or fitness recaps.
Prompt: Create a stats page with things like: total estimated prompts, longest streak, busiest day/time of year, my signature prompt style, topics I revisited, and the weirdest rabbit hole I went down.
Some numbers are estimated, but the patterns are accurate enough to feel strangely validating — and sometimes humbling.
6. Turn your year with ChatGPT into a story
This prompt goes beyond stats and summaries.
Prompt: Write a narrative summary of my year using ChatGPT — almost like a memoir chapter. Highlight themes, recurring challenges I brought up, projects I completed, and the overall arc of my AI usage.
Instead of isolated moments, you get a narrative. Stress, creativity, productivity, curiosity — it all gets woven into a story the official recap doesn’t attempt to tell.
7. Get smarter goals for next year — based on real behavior
Finally, use everything you’ve learned to look forward.
Prompt: Analyze my behaviors and suggest creative, productivity, wellness, writing, and AI-related goals for next year. Make them actionable, realistic, and tailored to the patterns you see.
Because these goals are based on how you actually used ChatGPT, they’re far more realistic than generic New Year’s resolutions.
Bottom line: why this goes beyond the official recap
ChatGPT’s Year in Review is pretty good, but if you want to make it even better and more personal, these prompts help explain how you think, why you use AI the way you do and what changed over the year.
If ChatGPT played any role in your work, creativity or personal life in 2025, this is one of the most revealing ways to look back — and one of the easiest experiments you can try before the year ends.
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