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Create a weekly to-do list

This is real work, not a feature someone invented — it comes from real job ads and real questions people asked. Below are four ready AI prompts: get it done, make it easy for the next person to say yes to, work out the right move when you are stuck, and stop it coming back.

4prompts

The same task, four prompts

today's deadline · the next reviewer · the stuck moment · the pattern
AExecute — do the immediate taskCreate a weekly to-do list for me for next week, starting Monday. Include reviewing the Q3…+
Create a weekly to-do list for me for next week, starting Monday. Include reviewing the Q3 budget, drafting the client presentation for Acme Corp, following up on the outstanding invoice from Delta Solutions, and scheduling the team's Q4 planning meeting.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
BImprove — make it easier to acceptBefore I start next week, refine my to-do list. Prioritize tasks based on urgency and impact,…+
Before I start next week, refine my to-do list. Prioritize tasks based on urgency and impact, group similar tasks together to improve focus, and suggest a realistic time estimate for each item. Flag anything that looks like it might conflict or be too much for one week.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
CDecide — diagnose the stuck momentI just got an urgent call about a critical bug in the product that needs immediate attention…+
I just got an urgent call about a critical bug in the product, and now my carefully planned Monday is in chaos.
I just got an urgent call about a critical bug in the product that needs immediate attention from the engineering team. My Monday was carefully planned with the Acme Corp presentation and Q3 budget review, and now it's all in chaos. I'm afraid if I drop everything for the bug, I'll miss the presentation deadline, but if I don't, we risk a major customer outage. What's the likely impact of prioritizing the bug on my other tasks, and what's the best next move to salvage my week and address the bug effectively?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
DBecome — change the patternMy weekly to-do lists consistently feel overwhelming, and I often end up pushing important…+
My weekly to-do lists consistently feel overwhelming, and I often end up pushing important tasks to the next week.
My weekly to-do lists consistently feel overwhelming, and I often end up pushing important tasks to the next week, especially the strategic ones. It feels like I'm always reacting to immediate needs rather than making progress on my bigger goals. Where do I consistently lose time or focus in my planning, and what habit should I change to create a more manageable and impactful weekly to-do list?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?

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Every task here was seen in the real world. Someone doing the job named it, a real job ad asked for it, or a lot of people asked about it online.

If nothing real showed a task, it is not on the page. That is the whole rule.

They are the same job approached four ways, because what you need depends on where you are.

Get it done today. Make it easy for the next person to say yes to. Work out the right move when you are stuck. Learn the pattern so the job stops coming back.

For most of these jobs it can carry the heavy thinking - draft it, sort it, check it, rehearse it with you.

It cannot sit in your chair, take the blame when a number is wrong, or notice what nobody wrote down. Let it do the first 80%. Keep the last 20% that is truly yours.

No. Copy any prompt and paste it into the AI you already use. No account, no score, no wall in the way.

Any of them. The prompts describe the work rather than naming a product, so they are not tied to one assistant.

That is also why they keep working when you switch.

Change it freely. Every prompt is a starting line, not a rule.

Put in your real numbers, your real names and your real deadline. The more you make it yours, the better the answer comes back.

The tasks come from real job ads, published job data and the questions people ask in public forums.

The steps come from Asana's own documentation, with practitioner sources for the traps the manual does not mention.

Push once. Ask it to sharpen the weakest part and to say what it assumed.

Most wrong answers come from a missing detail rather than a bad prompt - tell it the thing it could not know.