Add a whole school year's calendar to the family calendar with Claude and catch clashes with work trips months ahead
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Hally Peck, a chief marketing officer in New York with two kids and a husband who also works full-time, used to schedule life only days or a week ahead. Peck gave Claude the kids' school calendars for the year, with holidays, vacations and parent-teacher conference dates, and had it add them to the family calendar and cross-check school events against existing plans. It flagged a few conflicts with work trips already booked. Catching them months in advance rather than days or weeks means the family can resolve or plan around them.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Put every date from my children's school calendars into our family calendar and tell me where they clash with plans we already have. Fill in before running: - The school calendars (PDF, link or screenshots): [ATTACH / PASTE LINKS] - Which calendar to add them to: [CALENDAR] - Our existing work trips and commitments: [DETAILS OR CALENDAR ACCESS] Rules: - Add holidays, closures, half days, conferences and events, each labelled with the child's name. - Don't change or delete anything already in the calendar. - List every clash with existing plans, with both events and dates. - Ask me before adding anything you're unsure about. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. Output: A summary of what you added and a list of clashes to sort out. You'll know it worked when: every school date is in the calendar and no clash comes as a surprise.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Put every date from my children's school calendars into our family calendar and tell me where they clash with plans we already have. Fill in before running: - The school calendars (PDF, link or screenshots): [ATTACH / PASTE LINKS] - Which calendar to add them to: [CALENDAR] - Our existing work trips and commitments: [DETAILS OR CALENDAR ACCESS] Rules: - Add holidays, closures, half days, conferences and events, each labelled with the child's name. - Don't change or delete anything already in the calendar. - List every clash with existing plans, with both events and dates. - Ask me before adding anything you're unsure about. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. Output: A summary of what you added and a list of clashes to sort out. You'll know it worked when: every school date is in the calendar and no clash comes as a surprise.
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Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to. Goal: Put every date from my children's school calendars into our family calendar and tell me where they clash with plans we already have. Fill in before running: - The school calendars (PDF, link or screenshots): [ATTACH / PASTE LINKS] - Which calendar to add them to: [CALENDAR] - Our existing work trips and commitments: [DETAILS OR CALENDAR ACCESS] Rules: - Add holidays, closures, half days, conferences and events, each labelled with the child's name. - Don't change or delete anything already in the calendar. - List every clash with existing plans, with both events and dates. - Ask me before adding anything you're unsure about. - Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify. - Add reminders a week ahead for things to buy or prepare, like class gifts or costumes. Output: A summary of what you added and a list of clashes to sort out. You'll know it worked when: every school date is in the calendar and no clash comes as a surprise. Before you finish: re-read my goal and constraints, check your answer against each one, and list anything you assumed or couldn't confirm.
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