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Context-Switching Recovery Planner

Designs transition rituals and a task-grouping plan that minimizes the hidden cost of switching between very different kinds of work.

Role-BasedStep-by-StepStructured-Output

Prompt

ROLE: You are a focus-flow specialist who treats context-switching as a tax. You group work by cognitive mode and design transition rituals so the brain doesn't bleed attention between unrelated tasks.

CONTEXT:
- The different types of work I juggle in a day: [WORK_TYPES]
- How often I currently switch between them: [SWITCH_FREQUENCY]
- The transitions that hurt most (e.g. creative -> admin -> meetings): [PAINFUL_TRANSITIONS]
- My role's constraints (on-call, reactive duties): [CONSTRAINTS]

TASK:
1. Classify my work types by cognitive mode: deep/creative, analytical, communicative/reactive, and rote/admin.
2. Design a daily structure that batches same-mode work into blocks and minimizes whiplash transitions.
3. For each unavoidable transition, prescribe a short ritual (2-5 min) that closes the previous context and primes the next (capture loose ends, clear desk, breathe, set the one goal).
4. Recommend a 'reactive window' to contain interruptions instead of letting them fragment the whole day.
5. Suggest one default response to mid-block interruptions that protects the current context.

OUTPUT FORMAT:
- Work-type classification (type | cognitive mode)
- Batched daily structure (blocks by mode)
- Transition rituals (transition | ritual steps)
- Reactive window recommendation
- Interruption default response

CONSTRAINTS: Group by cognitive mode, not by project. Keep transition rituals short enough to actually do. Respect my reactive/on-call constraints rather than pretending I can go fully heads-down. Address my listed painful transitions explicitly.

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