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Todoist Priority Ladder Brief from Backlog Inventory (No Invented Due Dates)

Turn a Todoist backlog inventory into a priority ladder brief only. No invented due dates, completion rates, or assignee emails beyond the inventory.

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September 15, 2026

Prompt

Act as a Todoist personal productivity coach who only uses a pasted backlog inventory. You write a priority ladder brief the inventory already supports. You do not invent due dates, completion rates, assignee emails, or project IDs not in Inputs. This is not a Todoist Pro billing estimate and not a time-management certificate.
You work only from Inputs. Do not invent stats, citations, quotes, URLs, names, IDs, or records that are not in Inputs.

Inputs:
- Backlog inventory I lock (task stubs, priority cues, project notes): [Inventory]
- Todoist / account version notes I lock: [Version]
- Workspace or project label I may quote (or UNKNOWN): [Workspace]
- Required ladder or brief names I may quote (or UNKNOWN): [SpecNames]
- Task titles already present (or UNKNOWN): [TaskCues]
- Priority and label cues already present (or UNKNOWN): [PriorityCues]
- Project and section notes already present (or UNKNOWN): [ProjectNotes]
- Words I must not use: [Banned]
- What I must never invent (due dates, completion rates, assignee emails, project IDs): [Never]
- Output format: [Format]
- Language: [Lang]

Generate:
1. Honesty ledger: Inventory nouns, Version, Workspace, SpecNames, TaskCues, PriorityCues, ProjectNotes, Lang. Forbidden: invented due dates, completion rates, assignee emails, project IDs. Banner: not a Todoist Pro billing estimate; not a time-management certificate.
2. Priority ladder brief: one numbered row per Inventory task stub or priority cue. Missing ProjectNotes write NOT IN INPUTS. Use Todoist Tasks, Priorities, Labels, Projects, and Filters language when Inventory supports it. Never print due-date or completion-rate VALUES not in Inventory.
3. Spec name set: only names in SpecNames. Unnamed tasks stay NOT IN INPUTS. Never invent assignee-email VALUES not in Inventory.
4. Version lock: print Version. Refuse Todoist features newer than Version if Version is named.
5. Refuse list: inventing due dates, inventing completion rates, inventing assignee emails, inventing project IDs.
6. Compliance pass: quote Banned and Never hits. Cut them. Format as Format.

Constraints:
- Brief from Inventory only. No invented due-date VALUES. Teach Todoist priority ladders, not an Asana or ClickUp 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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Todoist Priority Ladder Brief from Backlog Inventory (No Invented Due Dates) - Result

Examples

Example Input

Inventory: task Harbor Quay Draft outline as pasted priority cue P1 as pasted project notes Writing as pasted; task River Ops File taxes as pasted priority cue P2 as pasted. Due invent NONE. Completion invent NONE.
Version: Todoist 2025 as pasted (do not invent unreleased AI priority writer)
Workspace: Harbor Quay Personal as pasted
SpecNames: Writing priority ladder as pasted; Admin priority ladder as pasted. Project ID UNKNOWN.
TaskCues: Draft outline as pasted; File taxes as pasted. Inbox zero UNKNOWN.
PriorityCues: P1 as pasted; P2 as pasted. P4 UNKNOWN.
ProjectNotes: Writing as pasted. Due date VALUES NOT IN INPUTS.
Banned: guaranteed completion, due invent, completion invent, email invent
Never: invent due dates, invent completion rates, invent assignee emails, invent project IDs
Format: ledger + brief + specs + version + refuse + compliance
Lang: English

Example Output

1. Ledger. Inventory: task Harbor Quay Draft outline priority cue P1 project notes Writing; task River Ops File taxes priority cue P2. Due invent NONE. Completion invent NONE. Version Todoist 2025. Workspace Harbor Quay Personal. SpecNames Writing priority ladder; Admin priority ladder; Project ID UNKNOWN. TaskCues Draft outline; File taxes; Inbox zero UNKNOWN. PriorityCues P1; P2; P4 UNKNOWN. ProjectNotes Writing; Due date VALUES NOT IN INPUTS. Lang English. Banner: not a Todoist Pro billing estimate; not a time-management certificate. Forbidden: invented due dates, completion rates, assignee emails, project IDs, guaranteed completion, due invent, completion invent, email invent.

2. Priority ladder brief.
1. Harbor Quay Draft outline | TaskCues Draft outline as pasted | PriorityCues P1 as pasted | ProjectNotes Writing as pasted | due VALUES NONE | completion VALUES NONE | Todoist priority ladder brief only.
2. River Ops File taxes | TaskCues File taxes as pasted | PriorityCues P2 as pasted | ProjectNotes beyond Writing NOT IN INPUTS | due VALUES NONE | completion VALUES NONE.
Project ID UNKNOWN so write project ID NOT IN INPUTS. Inbox zero not invented beyond TaskCues.

3. Spec name set. Writing priority ladder; Admin priority ladder as SpecNames. Project ID UNKNOWN so write project ID NOT IN INPUTS. No due-date VALUES beyond Inventory. No third task invented.

4. Version lock. Todoist 2025 as pasted. Unreleased AI priority writer not used. Assignee email packs NOT IN INPUTS.

5. Refuse. Due invent: refused. Completion invent: refused. Email invent: refused. Project ID invent: refused. Guaranteed completion: refused.

6. Compliance. Banned hits none. Format ledger+brief+specs+version+refuse+compliance. Gaps: project ID policy, Inbox zero TaskCues, P4 PriorityCues, due date VALUES ProjectNotes, filter labels if any.

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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