Productivity Prompts

Weekly Productivity Planner

Turn a list of tasks and priorities into a realistic, energy-aware weekly plan with time blocks and a review checklist.

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Professionals, students, and freelancers who want a structured, realistic weekly schedule that accounts for energy levels and avoids overcommitting.

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Prompt

You are acting as a productivity planning assistant who helps me build a realistic weekly plan. You must not overload my schedule or assume unlimited energy or time. Keep the plan grounded in what I actually tell you about my time, energy, and commitments, and ask clarifying questions if key details are missing.

Here is my information:

Tasks and goals for the week: {{goal}}
Fixed commitments or deadlines: {{constraints}}
My typical working hours or availability: {{context}}
When my energy or focus is usually highest or lowest: {{examples}}
Tasks that are urgent or high priority: {{desired_output}}
Any recurring admin tasks: {{input_text}}

If I have not told you enough about my available time or priorities to build a realistic plan, ask me clarifying questions before proceeding.

Please produce a structured weekly plan with the following sections:

1. Priorities: List the top three to five priorities for the week, ranked in order of importance.
2. Time blocks: Suggest realistic time blocks for deep work, meetings, and breaks based on my stated availability.
3. Focus tasks: Identify the most important tasks that require concentrated effort, and suggest when to schedule them based on energy patterns.
4. Admin tasks: List smaller recurring or administrative tasks and suggest a low-energy time slot for them.
5. Deadlines: Clearly list any deadlines and when work toward them should start.
6. Energy-based planning: Match demanding tasks to higher energy periods and lighter tasks to lower energy periods, based on what I told you.
7. Risks: Identify what could cause this plan to fall apart, such as overbooking or unclear priorities.
8. Daily plan: Break the week into a simple day-by-day outline.
9. Review checklist: Provide a short checklist I can use at the end of the week to review what worked and what did not.

Keep the plan realistic and avoid scheduling back-to-back demanding tasks without breaks. Do not assume I have more hours available than I stated.

How to use

List your tasks, deadlines, and fixed commitments in the placeholders.
Describe your working hours and when your energy is typically highest or lowest.
Run the prompt in your preferred AI tool.
Answer clarifying questions if your availability or priorities are unclear.
Use the daily plan and review checklist to guide and evaluate your week.

Example input

Tasks: finish client proposal, prep for Thursday meeting, respond to backlog of emails, start research for next project. Fixed commitments: Thursday 2pm client meeting, gym Monday and Wednesday mornings. Working hours: 9am to 5pm weekdays. Energy: highest in the morning, lowest after 3pm. Deadline: proposal due Friday.

Example output

Priorities: finish and send the client proposal, prepare for the Thursday meeting, clear the email backlog, begin project research.
Time blocks: mornings reserved for deep work, early afternoons for meetings and collaboration, late afternoons for lighter admin tasks.
Focus tasks: work on the client proposal Monday and Tuesday mornings when energy is highest, prepare meeting materials Wednesday morning.
Admin tasks: clear email backlog in short blocks after 3pm each day when energy is lower.
Deadlines: proposal due Friday, so final review should happen Thursday afternoon after the client meeting.
Energy-based planning: schedule the most demanding proposal work before 12pm, save routine tasks like email for the afternoon energy dip.
Risks: the Thursday meeting could shift proposal work later than planned, so Wednesday should include a buffer.
Daily plan: Monday proposal drafting, Tuesday proposal refinement and gym, Wednesday meeting prep and buffer time, Thursday client meeting and email catch-up, Friday final proposal review and send, plus starting research notes.
Review checklist: did the proposal get sent on time, were mornings protected for focus work, what task took longer than expected, what should shift next week.

Customization tips

— Update the energy pattern description if your schedule varies by day.
— Add recurring personal commitments like exercise or family time so the plan respects them.
— Ask for a lighter plan if the week already feels overloaded.
— Re-run the prompt midweek with adjusted context if priorities shift.

FAQ

No, it is instructed to keep the plan realistic and avoid stacking demanding tasks without breaks.

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Sam O.

Used this to ship 6 SEO articles in a week — the FAQ block alone is worth it.

Ines P.

Wish it had a Spanish voice preset, but overall very solid.

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