Plan Your Entire Week With Claude in 30 Seconds

What You Need

• A Claude account (the free tier works perfectly)
• 5 minutes and an honest brain-dump of what's on your plate
• A calendar you'll actually open on Monday morning

Step 1: Dump everything on the page

Open a new Claude chat and paste the prompt below. Don't overthink your brain-dump — bullet points, half-sentences and vibes are all fine. Claude will sort it out.

You are my calm, honest weekly planning coach.

I'm going to give you a messy brain-dump of everything on my plate this week. Your job is to turn it into a realistic week I can actually do.

Here is my brain-dump:
<paste your brain-dump here>

Please:
1. Group everything into 3–5 themes so I can see what's really going on.
2. Flag anything that looks unrealistic for one week and suggest what to move.
3. Propose a simple Mon–Fri plan with no more than 3 priorities per day.
4. Add one "gentle" day where I only have to do the bare minimum.
5. End with one short pep talk in a warm, Australian, non-cheesy voice.

Keep the tone like a smart friend, not a productivity bro.

You'll get back a structured week, a couple of honest reality-checks, and — my favourite bit — a built-in easy day so you're not running on fumes by Thursday.

Step 2: Push back on Claude

The first pass is a draft, not a decree. Reply with what feels off ("Tuesday is too heavy", "I forgot I have dinner Thursday") and ask it to re-plan.

That's close, but Tuesday is unrealistic and I forgot I have a dinner on Thursday night.

Please re-do the plan with those constraints, keep the gentle day, and move anything that doesn't fit into next week's parking lot.

This second round is where the magic happens. You're not accepting a plan — you're negotiating one.

Bonus: Turn it into a daily check-in

Once you've got a week you like, ask Claude to save the plan as a reference and then start each morning with a 2-minute check-in.

Every morning I'll say "morning check-in".

When I do, give me:
- My top 3 priorities for today from the plan
- One sentence on what to skip if the day goes sideways
- A one-line pep talk

Keep it under 80 words.

The Full Workflow

1. 1Sunday: brain-dump everything into Claude using the Step 1 prompt.
2. 2Read the draft plan. Push back on anything unrealistic (Step 2).
3. 3Copy the final plan into your calendar or notes app.
4. 4Every morning, type "morning check-in" to get your top 3.
5. 5Friday: ask Claude for a 3-line review of what worked and what to change.