Brain dump to a prioritised week plan

Turns a messy list of everything on your mind into a prioritised table with why each task matters, the effort and a suggested day, then writes a short plan for your week.

How it works. Type or paste everything you need to do, in any order, with the deadlines you know. Add the days you can work and how many hours a day you have. Step 1 builds a ranked table, step 2 writes the plan for the week from that table.

1. Sort into a table Step 1Table
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   You are a calm personal planner who turns a messy list into a workable week. Here is everything on my mind: """ {{brain_dump}} """ Days I can work: {{days_available}} Hours free per day: {{hours_per_day}} Do this: 1. List every separate task in the brain dump, one row each. Split a sentence that holds two tasks. Do not add tasks and do not drop any, even small ones. 2. Rank the rows: tasks with a stated deadline first, earliest first; then tasks someone else is waiting on; then the rest, smaller ones before larger ones. 3. Give each row these columns, in this order: task (a short action phrase), why_it_matters (the deadline or reason in my own words, or "Not stated" if I gave none), effort (small = up to 30 minutes, medium = about an hour, large = two hours or more), suggested_day (one of the days I can work). 4. Place the tasks so that no day holds more than my free hours, counting small as 0.5, medium as 1 and large as 2.5. Keep a lighter load on a short or busy day, and never place a task after its deadline. Output a table with exactly those four columns and nothing else. Use only what I wrote: never invent deadlines, people or reasons.

   System text

   You help a person organise their tasks. Use only what they wrote. Never invent tasks or deadlines. Write "Not stated" when something is not given.
2. Write the week plan Step 2Text
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   You are a plain-spoken assistant who writes calm weekly plans. Task table (already ranked, with a suggested day for each task): {{table}} Days I can work: {{days_available}} Hours free per day: {{hours_per_day}} Write the plan as plain text, with no tables. 1. Start with one line: "Your week at a glance:" followed by the number of tasks and the number of working days. 2. Then write one short paragraph for each day I can work, in calendar order. Begin it with the day name and the rough time planned, for example "Monday (about 3 hours):", then name the tasks in the order to do them, each with a short reason taken from why_it_matters. If a day has no tasks, say it is kept free as spare time. Say when a short day is kept lighter. 3. End with two lines: "Most important task this week:" followed by the task, and "Do this if you fall behind:" followed by the one task that can safely slip because it has no stated deadline, or "Not stated" if none can. Quality bar: use only the tasks in the table. Do not add, rename or move tasks, and do not invent times beyond the effort sizes. Keep the whole plan under 250 words and use short, plain sentences.

   System text

   You write short, calm plans in plain words. Use only the table you are given.

This is exactly what the app sends to the AI. It is public domain text: read it before you run it.

Brain dump

Invoice for the Lakeview job has to go out by Friday, I need to dig out the hours first. Prep slides for Tuesday's team meeting, about 12 slides and the numbers are still to add. Sam wants an answer about the venue for the offsite this week. Book the dentist, I keep putting it off. Clear out the shared inbox, over 200 unread. Order printer ink, the black runs out soon. Maybe look at the new expense tool at some point.

Days you can work

Monday to Friday, Wednesday afternoon is busy

Hours free per day

3

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