Sunday Reset: the weekly planning automation
The Sunday Reset
The Sunday Reset reads your calendar from Lesson 8.1 automatically: no re-pasting, no re-explaining what classes you're in, no re-listing what's still loose from last week. Because it lives inside the Coach Cowork Project from Lesson 7.2, it remembers you. The prompt itself is shorter; the output is more accurate.
This is the full Sunday Reset prompt. It's longer than most prompts in the course because it does three things: pulls calendar context silently, asks you three reflection questions one at a time (so you actually answer instead of skim-typing), and outputs a shape-locked Week Map you can scan at a glance on Monday morning. Save it; you only paste it once.
Run it inside your Coach Cowork Project
Lesson 7.2 is the prerequisite. The whole reason Sunday Reset works is that your Coach has access to syllabi, voice profile, the "How I Actually Learn" doc, and your conversation history. A generic chat can't run this prompt.
Confirm the calendar connector
School calendar + one personal with shifts and exams. The audit habit from 9.1 applies here: if the calendar connector is off, the prompt's STEP 1 falls apart and you'll get a Week Map full of guesses.
Run it once manually first
Before you arm the schedule, run the prompt as a regular chat one Sunday. Check the Week Grid shape, the Drop This sensitivity, the One-Line Focus voice. Tune any of the four customization moves on Screen 3. Then schedule it.
Three more variants: pick zero, one, two, or all three.
Read these three, pick the ones that fit your actual life, skip the rest.
Variant 1 · Daily Morning Brief
When: 7:30am, weekdays only. What: a quick day-shape card: today's classes, what's due in 48 hours, the thing yesterday-you said today-you would do, one-line focus. Best for: students who look at their phone before they look at a planner.
Variant 2 · Friday Wind-Down
When: Friday 5pm. What: productivity close-out: what you finished this week, what's still open vs. what can roll, explicit "permission to log off" line.
Variant 3 · Application Deadline Tracker
When: 1st of the month, 9am. What: reads your Application Tracker doc (the one Module 6.2 builds), surfaces what's due in 30 days, flags anything you haven't touched in 14+ days. Best for: students in active application season: senior fall, internship hunt, scholarship season. Don't run it year-round; pause when nothing's open.
Pick what fits.
Don't use the various suggestions if they don't help you. Only use scheduled tasks that fit your life and needs.
What you set up in this lesson
- Sunday Reset. Sunday 6pm. Coach Project. Calendar connector on. Run-once-manually before scheduling. Monday-morning re-read is half the move.
- (Optional) Daily Morning Brief. 7:30am weekdays. Quick day shape. Try for two weeks; turn off if it stops earning its slot.
- (Optional) Friday Wind-Down. Friday 5pm. Productivity close, not a journal prompt. Pair with Sunday Reset.
- (Optional) App Deadline Tracker. 1st of the month. Reads your Application Tracker from Lesson 6.2. Pause it when app season ends.
Before you continue: count your running tasks
Open Settings → Scheduled Tasks. Count what's armed. You probably don't want more than a couple to start, or they might just become clutter.
Up next: 9.3: Pre-Exam Watch
Tag your exams in the calendar:"EXAM · Chem 102 · Midterm 1." Four scheduled tasks fire at the right intervals: T-5 days runway alarm, T-3 active recall practice set, T-1 light pass, morning-of prime. Each one runs real study work: flashcards, practice questions, gap-finding: not pep talks.
Continue to 9.3:Pre-Exam Watch →