{"id":"fpa-plan-calendar-conflict-list","audience":"fpa","category":"finance-work","track":"finance","technique":"format","level":"beginner","title":"Sort a planning calendar by date and flag an owner conflict","free":false,"task":"You're organizing the FY27 planning calendar. Write a prompt for plain text lines sorted by date, formatted \"Date - Task - Owner\", leaving out tasks marked done, then a last line starting \"Conflict:\" that names any person with two tasks on the same date. Dates are in 2026. Under 90 words.","materialLabel":"Planning calendar notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"FY27 PLANNING CALENDAR - notes from Dana (as of Oct 10)\n\n- Nov 16: board deck final version - Dana\n- Oct 19: opex requests intake from department heads - Dana\n- Oct 12: revenue drivers locked - Priti\n- Oct 5: planning kickoff - CFO (DONE)\n- Oct 26: first consolidated draft - Dana\n- Oct 19: headcount plan review with HR - Dana\n- Nov 2: executive review - CFO\n- Oct 8: planning templates sent out - Ilan (DONE)\n- Nov 9: CFO sign-off on the final plan - CFO\n\nOther notes: Ilan will be on vacation Oct 26 to Oct 30. The board meeting is Nov 19. Dates in Dana's notes may not be in order.","rules":[{"type":"plainText"},{"type":"maxWords","max":90}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Gives the line format","patterns":["date - task - owner","format"]},{"label":"Says to sort","patterns":["sort","earliest first"]},{"label":"Excludes done tasks","patterns":["done","leave out"]},{"label":"Defines conflict","patterns":["conflict","same date","same.person"]},{"label":"Caps length","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","plain"]}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Keeping done tasks","why":"The AI lists the kickoff and templates.","fix":"Add: \"Leave out tasks marked DONE.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Not sorting","why":"The AI keeps Dana's order.","fix":"Say: \"Sort by date, earliest first.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Wrong conflicts","why":"The AI flags Ilan's vacation or the board date.","fix":"Say: \"Only same-person, same-date conflicts count.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Markdown extras","why":"The AI adds bold labels, headings and a closing note.","fix":"Say: \"Plain text, no bold. Output only the lines asked for.\"","checks":["plainText"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting and runs past word limits.","fix":"Ask for fewer words than the real cap and keep each line short.","checks":["maxWords"]}],"hint":"The notes are out of order and include finished tasks. Say how to sort, what to drop and what counts as a conflict.","rubricLabels":["Lists seven open tasks sorted by date: Oct 12, Oct 19, Oct 19, Oct 26, Nov 2, Nov 9, Nov 16, in the format Date - Task - Owner (done tasks Oct 5 and Oct 8 are left out)","The two Oct 19 lines are Dana's (opex requests intake and headcount plan review), and the Nov 16 line is the last task","The last line starts \"Conflict:\" and names Dana on Oct 19 with both tasks, and doesn't invent conflicts for Ilan's vacation or the board date"]}