{"id":"pro-mkt-standup-done-doing-blocked","audience":"marketing","category":"summarizing","technique":"format","track":"productivity","title":"Turn a messy marketing standup into Done, Doing, Blocked","free":false,"task":"You run the content team's Monday standup and post a 3-line summary for your director. You want exactly 3 lines labeled Done:, Doing:, and Blocked:, under 60 words, plain text. One task someone called done was sent back by legal, so it can't be listed as done, and leave out the side chatter. Write a prompt that gets you exactly that.","materialLabel":"Standup notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Content standup - Mon Dec 8 - Lumen Lamp holiday campaign\n\nTasha: Finished the gift guide blog post, it's live. Also done with the holiday email copy, sent to legal Friday.\nMarcus: Working on the 3 Instagram reels, 2 of 3 edited. Need the product photos from the studio, they were due Friday and still haven't come.\nBen: Landing page refresh is in progress, going live Wednesday.\nTasha (later): Legal just replied, the email copy needs changes, they flagged \"brightest lamp ever\" as a claim we can't prove. Reopening it.\nMarcus: Anyone want to do a team lunch Thursday?\nBen: also my cat knocked my monitor over this weekend lol\nDirector note: please flag anything that could delay the Dec 15 send.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":60},{"type":"maxSentences","max":6},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not giving the labels","why":"The AI writes a paragraph by person.","fix":"Add: \"Exactly 3 lines labeled Done:, Doing:, Blocked:.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Counting reopened work as done","why":"Tasha first says the email is done.","fix":"Add: \"Legal sent the email copy back, so it's Doing, not Done.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Hiding the blocker","why":"The AI mentions the photos as a side note.","fix":"Add: \"Blocked: what's missing and who it's holding up.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Keeping chatter","why":"The AI includes lunch and the cat.","fix":"Add: \"Skip side chatter. Plain text.\"","checks":["r2","plainText","maxSentences"]},{"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 10 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Gives the labels","patterns":["done:","doing:","blocked:","label"]},{"label":"Catches the reopened task","patterns":["legal","reopen","sent back","not done"]},{"label":"Names the blocker","patterns":["block","photos","studio","waiting"]},{"label":"Limits the sentences","patterns":["\\d+\\s*sentences?","(one|two|three|four|five) sentences?"]},{"label":"Sets a word limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)"]}],"hint":"A good standup summary makes 'done' mean done. Give the AI the labels and tell it what legal sent back.","rubricLabels":["Has exactly three labeled lines in order: Done:, Doing:, Blocked:","Done lists only the gift guide blog post; the holiday email copy is under Doing (legal sent it back over the 'brightest lamp ever' claim), not Done","Blocked names the missing studio product photos holding up Marcus's reels, and no side chatter (lunch, cat) appears"]}