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Things 3 Area Project Map from Workspace Inventory (No Invented Completion Rates)

Turn a Things 3 workspace inventory into an area project map only. No invented completion rates, streak totals, or focus scores beyond the inventory.

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September 24, 2026

Prompt

Act as a Things 3 area-project cartographer who only uses a pasted inventory. You write a area project map the inventory already supports. You do not invent completion rates, streak totals, focus scores, or billing secrets not in Inputs. This is not a Things 3 brand-kit generator; not a productivity guarantee.
You work only from Inputs. Do not invent stats, citations, quotes, URLs, names, IDs, or records that are not in Inputs.

Inputs:
- Inventory I lock (area stubs, project cues, tag notes): [Inventory]
- Things 3 / database version notes I lock: [Version]
- Desk or area label I may quote (or UNKNOWN): [Workspace]
- Required area or map names I may quote (or UNKNOWN): [SpecNames]
- Area and heading labels already present (or UNKNOWN): [AreaCues]
- Project and checklist labels already present (or UNKNOWN): [ProjectCues]
- Tag and when notes already present (or UNKNOWN): [TagNotes]
- Words I must not use: [Banned]
- What I must never invent (completion rates, streak totals, focus scores, billing secrets): [Never]
- Output format: [Format]
- Language: [Lang]

Generate:
1. Honesty ledger: Inventory nouns, Version, Workspace, SpecNames, AreaCues, ProjectCues, TagNotes, Lang. Forbidden: invented completion rates, streak totals, focus scores, billing secrets. Banner: not a Things 3 brand-kit generator; not a productivity guarantee.
2. Area project map: one numbered row per Inventory stub or cue. Missing TagNotes write NOT IN INPUTS. Use Things 3 areas, projects, headings, and Today language when Inventory supports it. Never print completion-count or streak VALUES not in Inventory.
3. Spec name set: only names in SpecNames. Unnamed rows stay NOT IN INPUTS. Never invent focus-score VALUES not in Inventory.
4. Version lock: print Version. Refuse Things 3 features newer than Version if Version is named.
5. Refuse list: inventing completion rates, inventing streak totals, inventing focus scores, inventing billing secrets.
6. Compliance pass: quote Banned and Never hits. Cut them. Format as Format.

Constraints:
- Map from Inventory only. No invented completion VALUES. Teach Things 3 area project maps, not a OmniFocus or Todoist 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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Things 3 Area Project Map from Workspace Inventory (No Invented Completion Rates) - Result

Examples

Example Input

Inventory: area Harbor Quay Dock Ops as pasted project cue Quay Launch as pasted tag notes tonight as pasted; area River Ops River Ops as pasted project cue Quay Launch as pasted. Completion invent NONE. Streak invent NONE.
Version: Things 3 as pasted (do not invent unreleased AI area pack)
Workspace: Harbor Quay planning desk as pasted
SpecNames: Dock Ops area map as pasted; River Ops area map as pasted. Focus scores UNKNOWN.
AreaCues: Dock Ops as pasted; River Ops as pasted. Archive UNKNOWN.
ProjectCues: Quay Launch as pasted. Backlog UNKNOWN.
TagNotes: tonight as pasted. Completion VALUES NOT IN INPUTS.
Banned: guaranteed completion, completion invent, streak invent, focus invent
Never: invent completion rates, invent streak totals, invent focus scores, invent billing secrets
Format: ledger + table + specs + version + refuse + compliance
Lang: English

Example Output

1. Ledger. Inventory: area Harbor Quay Dock Ops as pasted project cue Quay Launch as pasted tag notes tonight as pasted; area River Ops River Ops as pasted project cue Quay Launch as pasted. Completion invent NONE. Streak invent NONE. Version Things 3 as pasted. Workspace Harbor Quay planning desk. SpecNames Dock Ops area map as pasted; River Ops area map as pasted. Focus scores UNKNOWN. AreaCues Dock Ops as pasted; River Ops as pasted. Archive UNKNOWN. ProjectCues Quay Launch as pasted. Backlog UNKNOWN. TagNotes tonight as pasted. Completion VALUES NOT IN INPUTS. Lang English. Banner: not a Things 3 brand-kit generator; not a productivity guarantee. Forbidden: invented completion rates, streak totals, focus scores, billing secrets, guaranteed completion, completion invent, streak invent, focus invent.

2. Area project map.
1. Harbor Quay Dock Ops | AreaCues Dock Ops as pasted | ProjectCues Quay Launch as pasted | TagNotes tonight as pasted | completion VALUES NONE | streak NONE | Things 3 area project map only.
2. River Ops River Ops | AreaCues River Ops as pasted | ProjectCues Quay Launch as pasted | TagNotes beyond tonight NOT IN INPUTS | completion VALUES NONE | streak NONE.
Focus scores UNKNOWN so write focus-score VALUES NOT IN INPUTS. Archive not invented beyond AreaCues.

3. Spec name set. Dock Ops area map as pasted; River Ops area map as pasted as SpecNames. Unnamed rows NOT IN INPUTS. Never invent focus-score VALUES.

4. Version lock. Things 3 as pasted as pasted. Refuse unreleased AI area pack.

5. Refuse list. inventing completion rates; inventing streak totals; inventing focus scores; inventing billing secrets.

6. Compliance. Quoted Banned: guaranteed completion, completion invent, streak invent, focus invent. Cut. Quoted Never: invent completion rates, invent streak totals, invent focus scores, invent billing secrets. Cut. Format ledger + table + specs + version + refuse + compliance.

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.

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