planning prompts
46 prompts tagged planning, drawn from 13 categories. All free to copy, and all editable once they are in your own library.
🔮 Astrology & tarot🔍 Code review & debugging🍳 Cooking & food🎨 Design & UX🌱 Plants & gardening🎁 Gifts & occasions📥 Inbox & accounts🧠 Learning & explaining📝 Meetings & notes🗺️ Product & planning🧪 Tests & QA⚖️ Thinking & decisions✈️ Travel & places
- Plan a reading session start to finishSitting down to read for yourself or a friend and wanting more than shuffling and hoping.Long🔮 Astrology & tarot
- Plan for touching legacy codeYou need to change something nobody understands and there are no tests.Long🔍 Code review & debugging
- Get several dishes to finish at the same timeThree dishes, one oven, and a table of people expecting it all hot.Long🍳 Cooking & food
- Read a recipe critically before I startBefore you commit two hours and a chicken to a recipe from a stranger.Long🍳 Cooking & food
- What goes with this?The main is decided and the rest of the plate is not.Short🍳 Cooking & food
- What is this recipe not telling me?Before you commit two hours and a chicken to a recipe from a stranger.Medium🍳 Cooking & food
- Get these dishes to land togetherSeveral dishes, one oven, and people expecting all of it hot.Medium🍳 Cooking & food
- Turn this request into a design briefStarting work where the whole goal arrived as one Slack message.Long🎨 Design & UX
- Turn a vague request into a design specSomeone asked for "a dashboard" and then walked away.Long🎨 Design & UX
- What to do in the garden this monthThe start of a month, wanting a list pinned to your climate rather than a generic one.Long🌱 Plants & gardening
- Plan the layout of a bed or balconyAn empty space and a pile of plants you want to arrange sensibly rather than by trial.Long🌱 Plants & gardening
- Build a seed sowing timeline backwards from last frostA packet collection in January and no plan for what gets sown when.Long🌱 Plants & gardening
- Choose plants for the climate I actually havePlanting something meant to live for twenty years in a climate that is shifting.Long🌱 Plants & gardening
- Sowing dates worked back from last frostA pile of seed packets and no idea what gets sown when.Medium🌱 Plants & gardening
- Plan a celebration people enjoyYou're hosting something and the guest list doesn't all know each other.Long🎁 Gifts & occasions
- Organise a group gift without the chaosSeveral people chipping in and nobody wanting to chase the money.Long🎁 Gifts & occasions
- Plan all the gifts for an occasion in advanceChristmas, a big family birthday season, or any month with five people to buy for.Long🎁 Gifts & occasions
- Run a group gift without chasing anyoneSeveral people chipping in and nobody wanting to collect the money.Medium🎁 Gifts & occasions
- Build a renewal calendar from my receiptsWanting to cancel before a renewal rather than three days after it.Long📥 Inbox & accounts
- Plan retiring an old email addressAn address you have outgrown but cannot simply abandon.Long📥 Inbox & accounts
- Pull every date out of my inboxDeadlines, renewals and appointments scattered across weeks of mail.Long📥 Inbox & accounts
- Build me a learning roadmap with a real orderStarting a large subject and needing a sequence, not a reading list.Long🧠 Learning & explaining
- What do I need to know before this?A paper, article or course that keeps losing you for reasons you can't identify.Long🧠 Learning & explaining
- What do I need first?Material that keeps losing you for reasons you can't name.Short🧠 Learning & explaining
- Design an agenda that earns the hourBefore sending a calendar invite that would otherwise just have a title.Long📝 Meetings & notes
- Plan a half-day workshopFacilitating a longer session and needing a minute-by-minute plan.Long📝 Meetings & notes
- Write the agendaBefore sending an invite that would otherwise just have a title.Short📝 Meetings & notes
- Estimate effort as ranges, not single numbersSomeone wants a date and you only honestly have a spread.Long🗺️ Product & planning
- Build a launch planTwo weeks before a release, to find what nobody has picked up yet.Long🗺️ Product & planning
- Ten things before launchA launch date that is closer than the checklist is complete.Medium🗺️ Product & planning
- Design performance test scenariosBefore a launch where load is a real unknown.Long🧪 Tests & QA
- Five tests worth writingA change you want covered without writing forty tests.Medium🧪 Tests & QA
- Edge cases for this featureBefore QA finds them for you, loudly.Medium🧪 Tests & QA
- Run a pre-mortem on this planBefore committing to a plan that people are already enthusiastic about.Long⚖️ Thinking & decisions
- Break this into smaller betsA big commitment that could be a sequence of cheaper ones.Long⚖️ Thinking & decisions
- Quick pre-mortemA plan you are about to commit to properly.Medium⚖️ Thinking & decisions
- An itinerary built around my energy, not the mapPlanning days you'll actually enjoy instead of a checklist you'll abandon by lunch.Long✈️ Travel & places
- Plan this trip around one hard constraintWhen a budget, a pram, a bad knee or a heatwave defines the whole trip.Long✈️ Travel & places
- Plan a long journey with good stopsA road trip or multi-leg route where the stops matter as much as the destination.Long✈️ Travel & places
- A trip that works for both of usTravelling with someone who wants a completely different holiday from you.Long✈️ Travel & places
- Make this work trip less miserableA business trip you didn't choose, in a city you'll barely see.Long✈️ Travel & places
- What to do with this layoverA gap between flights that's too long to sit in and too short to relax about.Long✈️ Travel & places
- Budget this trip honestlyWhen the flights and hotel are booked and you suspect the real number is higher.Long✈️ Travel & places
- Review the trip so the next one is betterA few days after getting home, while you still remember what annoyed you.Long✈️ Travel & places
- Three days here, what do I do?A short trip you want shaped rather than crammed.Short✈️ Travel & places
- Three days, paced for the person I actually amPlanning days you will enjoy rather than a checklist abandoned by lunch.Medium✈️ Travel & places
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