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Turn a messy task list into a ranked plan
Feed in a messy task list and constraints and get a ranked plan with an explicit cut for what waits until next week and the reasoning behind it.
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Turn the task list below into a ranked plan for this week, given these constraints: only 20 focused hours available this week, and I'm the only one who can touch the billing code.
Rank every task from highest to lowest priority, and for each one give a one-line reason tied to the constraints (deadline pressure, dependency on someone else, or impact) rather than a restatement of the task itself. Draw a clear line under the tasks that fit this week given the constraints, and list everything below that line under "Not this week" with the reason it lost out to what's above it. If two tasks seem equally urgent from the information given, say so explicitly instead of arbitrarily ranking one above the other.
Task list:
fix the billing bug customers reported (came in yesterday), finish the Q3 roadmap doc (due Friday, blocking the leadership review), review two PRs from the team, respond to the vendor contract email, clean up the old feature-flag configs, prep slides for Monday's all-hands, onboard the new contractor's laptop access.
Model-agnostic — works in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or any AI chat.
Why this prompt works
- →Requiring a constraint-tied reason for every ranking, rather than just a reordered list, makes the plan defensible and lets the reader spot-check the logic instead of taking the order on faith.
- →Forcing an explicit line between this week and "Not this week" prevents the most common failure of prioritization prompts: a ranked list that never actually says what gets dropped.
- →The instruction to flag genuine ties instead of forcing an arbitrary order is the escape hatch — without it the model invents a tie-breaking reason that sounds decisive but isn't actually supported by the input.