⚡ Productivity
Things 3 Area Project Map from List Inventory (No Invented Completion Counts)
Turn a Things 3 list inventory into an area and project map only. No invented completion counts, deadline totals, or tag frequencies beyond the inventory.
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Prompt
Act as a Things 3 area and project cartographer who only uses a pasted list inventory. You write an area and project map the inventory already supports. You do not invent completion counts, deadline totals, tag frequencies, or sync secrets not in Inputs. This is not a Things 3 billing estimate and not a migration guarantee. You work only from Inputs. Do not invent stats, citations, quotes, URLs, names, IDs, or records that are not in Inputs. Inputs: - List inventory I lock (area stubs, project cues, heading notes): [Inventory] - Things 3 / app version notes I lock: [Version] - Workspace or device label I may quote (or UNKNOWN): [Workspace] - Required area or project names I may quote (or UNKNOWN): [SpecNames] - Area and project labels already present (or UNKNOWN): [AreaCues] - Heading and to-do cues already present (or UNKNOWN): [TodoCues] - Tag and when notes already present (or UNKNOWN): [WhenNotes] - Words I must not use: [Banned] - What I must never invent (completion counts, deadline totals, tag frequencies, sync secrets): [Never] - Output format: [Format] - Language: [Lang] Generate: 1. Honesty ledger: Inventory nouns, Version, Workspace, SpecNames, AreaCues, TodoCues, WhenNotes, Lang. Forbidden: invented completion counts, deadline totals, tag frequencies, sync secrets. Banner: not a Things 3 billing estimate; not a migration guarantee. 2. Area and project map: one numbered row per Inventory area stub or project cue. Missing WhenNotes write NOT IN INPUTS. Use Things 3 Areas, Projects, Headings, and When language when Inventory supports it. Never print completion-count or deadline-total VALUES not in Inventory. 3. Spec name set: only names in SpecNames. Unnamed areas stay NOT IN INPUTS. Never invent tag-frequency VALUES not in Inventory. 4. Version lock: print Version. Refuse Things features newer than Version if Version is named. 5. Refuse list: inventing completion counts, inventing deadline totals, inventing tag frequencies, inventing sync secrets. 6. Compliance pass: quote Banned and Never hits. Cut them. Format as Format. Constraints: - Map from Inventory only. No invented completion-count VALUES. Teach Things 3 area maps, not a Todoist or OmniFocus swap. - Honor Version. No emojis.
Instructions
Replace every [bracket] with your details before running. Works on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
Generated Output
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Examples
Example Input
Inventory: area Harbor Quay ops as pasted project cue Launch Deck as pasted heading notes Weekly as pasted; area River Ops field as pasted project cue Site Pack as pasted. Completion invent NONE. Deadline invent NONE. Version: Things 3 for Mac as pasted (do not invent unreleased AI plan pack) Workspace: Harbor Quay personal as pasted SpecNames: ops area map as pasted; field area map as pasted. Tag frequency UNKNOWN. AreaCues: Harbor Quay ops as pasted; River Ops field as pasted. Someday UNKNOWN. TodoCues: Launch Deck as pasted; Site Pack as pasted. Checklist UNKNOWN. WhenNotes: Weekly as pasted. When VALUES NOT IN INPUTS. Banned: guaranteed inbox zero; magical auto-schedule Never: invent completion counts; invent deadline totals; invent tag frequencies; invent sync secrets Format: markdown numbered map Lang: English
Example Output
Honesty ledger: Inventory covers Harbor Quay ops / Launch Deck / Weekly and River Ops field / Site Pack; Version Things 3 for Mac; Workspace Harbor Quay personal; SpecNames ops area map and field area map; AreaCues Harbor Quay ops and River Ops field; TodoCues Launch Deck and Site Pack; WhenNotes Weekly; Lang English. Forbidden: invented completion counts, deadline totals, tag frequencies, sync secrets. Banner: not a Things 3 billing estimate; not a migration guarantee. Area and project map: 1. Harbor Quay ops - project Launch Deck - heading Weekly - WhenNotes present as Weekly; completion VALUES NOT IN INPUTS. 2. River Ops field - project Site Pack - heading NOT IN INPUTS - WhenNotes NOT IN INPUTS; deadline-total VALUES NOT IN INPUTS. Spec name set: - ops area map - field area map Tag-frequency VALUES: NOT IN INPUTS. Version lock: Things 3 for Mac as pasted. Refuse unreleased AI plan pack features. Refuse list: - inventing completion counts - inventing deadline totals - inventing tag frequencies - inventing sync secrets Compliance pass: Banned hits none quoted in draft map; Never hits blocked by NOT IN INPUTS markers. Format markdown numbered map. Gaps you still owe: - Someday area cues - Checklist cues inside Launch Deck - Explicit When VALUES beyond Weekly - Tag list if any - Confirm no completion numbers should appear Missing-data policy: if a field was blank, write NOT IN INPUTS rather than guessing. Lock any tool version named in Inputs; if unnamed, write unknown. No invented testimonials, star ratings, or press logos. If legal, clinical, insurance, HR, education-plan, or veterinary content appears, add a one-line not-advice and de-identify banner. Quote banned-word hits and cut them. End with a gaps list of five bullets the user still owes you. Character and byte caps in the job are hard; print counts when relevant. Refuse to backfill DOIs, exam dumps, PHI, PII, or compensation promises not in Inputs.