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Plan a focused research week
One falsifiable question per week is the difference between research and reading. The Wednesday kill criterion and the mandated slack come from project-management practice: plans without an exit condition and buffer quietly turn into three-week weeks.
ResearchPlan
Last reviewed July 17, 2026
The prompt
Plan one week of research toward this goal: {{goal}}.
Constraints: {{constraints}}
Produce:
1. The single question this week must answer, phrased falsifiably.
2. A day-by-day plan (5 days). Each day gets one primary activity (reading, data collection, interviews, analysis, writing), a concrete output ("notes on 4 papers", "8 coded transcripts"), and a maximum time box.
3. A kill criterion: the signal by Wednesday that means the approach is wrong and what to switch to.
4. Friday afternoon: a synthesis block with 3 questions the week's material must be forced to answer in writing.
Rules: no day may depend on another day's uncertain output without a fallback. Total planned time must fit the constraints with 20 percent slack.Run in idaptOpens a new chat with the prompt prefilled. Nothing sends until you press send.
Fill in the variables
| Variable | What it is | Example |
|---|---|---|
| {{goal}} | What the research is for | decide whether we build our own vector search or buy |
| {{constraints}} | Your real availability and limits | 10 hours total, no budget for paid reports |