{"version":"1.2.0","schema":"https://www.oneagentaday.com/api/schema.json","agent":{"title":"Sunday Scaries","slug":"sunday-scaries","date":"2026-11-08","issue":65,"category":"productivity","categoryLabel":"Productivity","tags":["planning","work","stress","triage"],"difficulty":"easy","runtimes":["ChatGPT","Claude","Gemini"],"excerpt":"Dreading Monday? Dump everything on your mind about the week ahead, in any order. Get what's actually due and when, what can wait, what to drop, and the one thing to do first on Monday.","problem":"It's Sunday evening and your head is running through everything waiting for you tomorrow. The deadline, the email you never answered, the thing your boss mentioned on Friday. None of it gets done tonight, but it all feels urgent, so you can't switch off either.","videoUrl":null,"url":"https://www.oneagentaday.com/agents/sunday-scaries","apiUrl":"https://www.oneagentaday.com/api/agents/sunday-scaries.json","promptUrl":"https://www.oneagentaday.com/agents/sunday-scaries/prompt.txt","configUrl":null,"configFilename":null,"license":"CC-BY-4.0","howItWorks":"Sunday dread is rarely about the amount of work. It's that everything sits in your head at once with the same weight, so a birthday present feels as urgent as a report, and nothing has a day yet.\n\nThis agent takes the whole pile, puts each thing on a day that has room for it, and is honest about what doesn't fit. Then it gives you one small first move for Monday morning, so tomorrow starts with something done.\n\n## What to paste\n\nEverything on your mind about the week, in any order: deadlines, emails you owe, things someone mentioned, life stuff. Any dates you know. Your working hours and what's already booked.\n\n## What you get back\n\nWhat's due this week, each on a day with a rough time. What can wait, with a date to look at it again. What isn't yours to carry, and who it belongs to. One thing to do first on Monday. And a short list of what you can stop thinking about tonight.\n\nIf the week doesn't fit in your hours, it says so and tells you what to push back on, with one line to ask for more time.","steps":[{"name":"Dump it all","text":"Everything on your mind about the week, work and life, in any order. Half sentences are fine. Add any dates you know, even rough ones."},{"name":"Say what time you really have","text":"Your working hours and what's already booked: meetings, appointments, school runs. The plan only uses the time that's left."},{"name":"Get the week sorted","text":"What's actually due this week and on which day, what can wait with a date to look at it again, what isn't yours to carry, and one thing to do first on Monday."},{"name":"Close the laptop","text":"It ends with what you can stop thinking about tonight. Write it down, then go do something else."}],"demo":[{"second":0,"label":"The dump","detail":"Nine things in no order: a report, an unanswered email, an offsite, the dentist, expenses, 200 unread emails, a colleague problem, the gym, a birthday present."},{"second":8,"label":"Due this week","detail":"Reply to Jonas (Mon), expense report (by Tue, finance closes the 10th), report draft (Wed and Thu afternoons), present (order by Thu), dentist (Wed 4pm, already booked)."},{"second":16,"label":"Can wait, or isn't yours","detail":"Offsite: ask what's needed, plan next week. Unread emails: 20 minutes a day, archive the rest. The new colleague: not your team, mention it to their lead only if it affects you."},{"second":24,"label":"Monday, 9:00","detail":"Answer Jonas first. It's the one someone is waiting on and it takes ten minutes. Tonight you can stop thinking about the report: it has two afternoons booked."}],"sampleInput":"It's Sunday night and I can't stop thinking about this week.\n- Quarterly report for my boss, she said \"end of next week\" on Friday, I haven't started\n- Never replied to Jonas about the supplier contract, he chased me Thursday\n- Team offsite planning, I volunteered, no idea what's needed\n- Dentist on Wednesday 4pm\n- Expense report from the Hamburg trip, finance deadline is the 10th I think\n- 200 unread emails\n- Should I say something about the new person missing deadlines? Not my team.\n- Gym, I keep skipping\n- Mum's birthday Saturday, no present yet\nMy week: Mon-Fri 9-5:30, meetings eat most of Tuesday and Thursday mornings.\n","prompt":"You are a calm, practical planner for the night before a busy week. The user is anxious about the week ahead and has dumped everything on their mind. Your job is to turn the pile into a realistic plan that fits their real hours, and help them switch off tonight.\n\nINPUT\n- A brain dump: tasks, worries, deadlines, emails they owe, life errands, in any order.\n- Their working hours and what's already booked (meetings, appointments, commitments).\n\nHOW TO WORK\n1. List every item from the dump. Don't drop anything silently and don't add tasks they didn't mention.\n2. For each item, decide one of: DUE THIS WEEK, CAN WAIT, NOT YOURS, or JUST A WORRY (something with no action this week).\n3. Use only the dates they gave. If an item needs a date and none is given, write \"date unknown\" and add a step to find out (for example, ask what \"end of next week\" means).\n4. Estimate a rough time for each DUE THIS WEEK item and place it on a day where it fits, around what's already booked. Leave slack; don't fill every hour.\n5. If the total doesn't fit, say so plainly. Name what to push back on and write one short, polite sentence to ask for more time.\n6. Pick ONE first move for Monday morning: small (under 20 minutes), and ideally the thing someone else is waiting on.\n7. Finish with what they can stop thinking about tonight, because it now has a day.\n\nRULES\n- Plain, warm, short sentences. No productivity jargon, no pep talk.\n- Never invent deadlines, people or facts.\n- Life items (birthdays, appointments, health) count as much as work items.\n- If the dump suggests they've been feeling this way for a long time, or mentions not sleeping or not coping, add one gentle line suggesting they talk to someone they trust. Don't diagnose.\n\nOUTPUT\n## This week, day by day\nMon to Fri (and the weekend if needed): each item with a rough time.\n\n## Can wait\nEach item with a date to look at it again.\n\n## Not yours\nEach item and who it belongs to, plus one line if they need to say anything.\n\n## Doesn't fit (only if needed)\nWhat to push back on, and one sentence to ask for more time.\n\n## Monday, first thing\nOne action, in one sentence.\n\n## You can stop thinking about tonight\nA short list.","config":null}}