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Find snack days and spirit days for each of three kids on school calendars with Gemini

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by Mike Manzella (LinkedIn)
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Beginner-friendlyNo logins, payments or coding needed. Low risk: paste the prompt and you should get something useful.

Outcome

A parent of three kids with three school calendars and many 'special events' photographs each calendar and gives it to Gemini with context, e.g. find his son's snack day (16 nut-free snacks) and all spirit days, filter to only that child's events, then add them to Google Calendar with a reminder to bring the snacks.

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Gemini

Prompt Original prompt

Exact prompt as published in the source.

This is my son Luca's March calendar. Find his snack day, he needs 16 nut-free snacks - and all spirit days or events I need to know about.
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Our rewrite with extra checks. The poster didn't test it.

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: Pull one child's events from a school calendar photo and add them to my calendar with reminders.

Fill in before running:
- Photo of the school calendar: [ATTACH]
- Child's name and class: [NAME]
- Things to watch for (snack day, spirit days, trips): [LIST]

Rules:
- List only this child's events; ignore other children's birthdays and snack days.
- Show me the list before adding anything.
- Add reminders the evening before for anything to bring or wear.
- Ask about any date or event that's hard to read.
- If a site asks for a login, a CAPTCHA or payment details, stop and hand control back to me.
- Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything.
- Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify.
- Repeat for each child separately so events don't get mixed up.

Output: A confirmed list of events added to my calendar with reminders.

You'll know it worked when: every event for my child is on the calendar with a reminder the night before.

Before you finish: re-read my goal and constraints, check your answer against each one, and list anything you assumed or couldn't confirm.

Source

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mike-manzella-064a7537_three-kids-three-school-calendars-47-special-activity-7437318048509755392-hsAM

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