{"id":"pro-par-thanksgiving-countdown","audience":"parents","category":"planning","technique":"context","title":"Make a Thanksgiving prep countdown around a changed dinner time","free":false,"task":"You're hosting Thanksgiving and want a prep countdown to text your teenage kids, who are helping. You want exactly 6 numbered lines from Tuesday to Thursday, each starting with day and time and naming who does it, under 90 words, plain text. Dinner moved to 2pm, so time Thursday's tasks back from the new time using the cook times in your notes. Write a prompt that gets you exactly that.","materialLabel":"Your notes and texts (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Thanksgiving at our house - dinner Thu 4pm, 11 people\n\nCook times (from the recipe card):\n- Turkey (14 lb): 4 hours in the oven, then rest 30 min before carving\n- Mac and cheese: 45 min, goes in when the turkey comes out\n- Rolls: 15 min, last thing\n\nPrep jobs:\n- Tue after school: Maya cleans the guest bathroom\n- Wed 6pm: Leo and I make the pie crusts and pies\n- Wed night: Maya sets the table (we have 11 chairs if we use the folding ones)\n- Thu: turkey in (me), mac and cheese in (Leo), rolls in (Maya)\n\nText from Aunt Rosa (Mon):\n\"Can we do dinner at 2 instead of 4? Grandpa gets tired early and we have the drive home. Everyone said yes in the family chat!\"\nMe: \"Sure, 2pm it is.\"\n\nOther:\n- Buy whipped cream (forgot last year)\n- Leo has a basketball tournament Saturday\n- Black Friday: maybe look at TVs?","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":6},{"type":"maxWords","max":90},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Missing the time change","why":"The 4pm dinner is in the heading, so the AI times everything from it.","fix":"Add: \"Dinner is now 2pm. Time Thursday's tasks back from 2pm.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Not doing the cook-time math","why":"The AI guesses times instead of counting back from the cook and rest times.","fix":"Add: \"Turkey needs 4 hours plus 30 min rest, mac and cheese 45 min, rolls 15 min.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Leaving out who does it","why":"The AI writes tasks but drops the names, so the kids don't know which are theirs.","fix":"Add: \"Start each line with day and time, and name who does it.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Letting the AI add extras","why":"The AI adds shopping reminders and cooking tips.","fix":"Add: \"Only the prep jobs in my notes. Plain text, 6 numbered lines.\"","checks":["r2","numberedItems","plainText"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for \"under 90 words\" and it often lands well over.","fix":"Cap each part instead: \"each line under 10 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says how many lines","patterns":["\\b(6|six)\\b"]},{"label":"Uses the new dinner time","patterns":["2 ?pm","two o'?clock","moved","new (dinner )?time"]},{"label":"Works back from cook times","patterns":["back from","cook time","4 hours","rest"]},{"label":"Names who does each job","patterns":["who","name","maya|leo"]},{"label":"Shows the line shape","patterns":["day and time","start(s)? with","like ['\"]"]}],"hint":"The AI can count back from a dinner time if you tell it which time is real. Point it at the change and give it the line shape with who does what.","rubricLabels":["Lines are in time order from Tuesday to Thursday, and each starts with a day and time and names who does the job","Thursday times are worked back from the new 2pm dinner: turkey in at 9:30am (4 hours plus 30 min rest), mac and cheese in at 1:30pm, rolls in at about 1:45pm","Uses only the prep jobs from the notes and leaves out the whipped cream, basketball, Black Friday and any extra advice"]}