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Calendar Event or Task? Choose by What Must Happen
Decide whether a class, deadline, study session, or assignment belongs on a calendar, in a task list, or in both without duplicating the whole plan.
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Extract Deadlines and Hard Rules from a Syllabus or LMS
Turn course information from a syllabus or LMS into a source-linked plain-text register of milestones, hard rules, open questions, and verification states.
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Run a Semester-Start Readiness Audit and Tool Check
Verify course access, source files, required tools, submission paths, and recovery contacts before a new term begins.
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Handle LMS Course Changes Before They Become Surprises
Use LMS alerts, clarify conflicting dates or instructions, and preserve simple evidence when a surprise course change causes a problem.
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Write a Personal System Charter Before Choosing Tools
Define outcomes, constraints, non-goals, ownership, and evidence before selecting applications or configurations.
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Build a Course Dashboard in Markdown
Create a small Markdown index for one course that connects source files, milestones, current status, open questions, and the next action.
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Don’t Build a Perfect Setup—Build a System You Can Understand
Evaluate tools by the outcomes they support, the complexity they add, and the student's ability to maintain and recover the system.
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Automate Due-Date Reminders Without Bloated Apps
Turn a verified course milestone list into a small, reviewable reminder flow without duplicating dates across several productivity tools.
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The Student Should Own the System
Define student, parent, and mentor roles that turn computer setup and troubleshooting into transferable skills.
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Write a Bounded Task for an AI Coding Agent
Give an AI coding agent a clear outcome, exact scope, authority boundary, success criteria, and evidence requirements for one reviewable change.
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Define “Done” Before You Start
Write observable success criteria for scope, behavior, tests, documentation, and delivery before beginning a project.
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When Productivity Optimization Becomes Procrastination
Use demonstrated problems, outcome tests, time limits, and stop rules to keep tool maintenance from replacing student work.