{"id":"pro-fl-client-deadline-calendar","audience":"freelancers","category":"planning","technique":"grounding","title":"Build a month of client deadlines after one client pauses","free":false,"task":"You're a freelance bookkeeper and want December's client deadlines in one list on your fridge. You want exactly 5 numbered lines sorted by date, each as date - client - task, under 60 words, plain text. Leave out the client who paused their work with you, and use the new date the other client moved. Write a prompt that gets you exactly that.","materialLabel":"Your notes and client emails (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"December deadlines - my clients\n\n- Fern & Fig Florist: monthly reconciliation due Dec 5\n- Brightside Dental: payroll report due Dec 12\n- Ortega Landscaping: quarterly sales tax worksheet due Dec 18\n- Hollis Yoga: monthly reconciliation due Dec 8\n- Tandem Bikes: year-end inventory count summary due Dec 29\n- Fern & Fig Florist: holiday bonus payroll check due Dec 19\n\nEmail from Hollis Yoga (Nov 28): \"We're pausing all bookkeeping until February while we renovate. Please don't do any December work.\"\n\nEmail from Brightside Dental (Dec 1): \"Can we move the payroll report to Dec 15? Our office manager is out until then.\"\n\nMy notes: renew my QuickBooks certification by Jan 31. Holiday cards to clients?","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":5},{"type":"maxWords","max":60},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Including the paused client","why":"Hollis Yoga is in your list, and the pause is in an email below.","fix":"Add: \"Leave out Hollis Yoga, they paused.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Missing the moved date","why":"Dec 12 is in the list.","fix":"Add: \"Brightside moved to Dec 15.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Not sorting by date","why":"The AI keeps the list order.","fix":"Add: \"Sort by date, earliest first.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Letting the AI pick the layout","why":"The AI makes a calendar table.","fix":"Be exact: \"Exactly 5 numbered lines, plain text.\"","checks":["numberedItems","plainText"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for \"under 60 words\" and it often lands well over.","fix":"Cap each part instead: \"each line under 8 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says how many lines","patterns":["\\b(5|five)\\b"]},{"label":"Drops the paused client","patterns":["hollis","paus","leave out"]},{"label":"Uses the moved date","patterns":["dec(ember)? 15","moved","brightside"]},{"label":"Sorts by date","patterns":["sort","by date","earliest"]},{"label":"Sets a word limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)"]}],"hint":"Your list is out of date. Tell the AI who paused, which date moved, and how to sort.","rubricLabels":["Lines are sorted by date: Dec 5, Dec 15, Dec 18, Dec 19, Dec 29, each with date, client and task","Brightside Dental's payroll report is Dec 15 (moved), not Dec 12","Hollis Yoga does not appear (paused), and the certification and holiday cards are left out"]}