Week-start 09:00–Generator A: 20 post-its on "subscription fatigue".
Monday 09:15–Critic B: red-dot flaws, tag cost or legal.
Still 09:30–Swap roles, repeat on leftover white space.
Finish 09:45–Merge surviving 4 into one-page canvas.
Friday 16:00–Retrospective: count resurrections from kill log.
Metric target: ≥ 40 % of Friday canvas content traced to Monday rejects. Bombs → shorten generation window to 5 minutes and add a third "wild card" generator to shatter pattern entrenchment.
Require a 50% down-payment and a signed commission agreement for any tailor-made work. Lay down two kill-fee tiers: 25% if the client cancels after sketch approval, 50% after completed art. A London game-art studio now slaps on a 1.5% monthly late penalty; it trimmed collection time from 98 to 23 days. Insert a line retaining physical ownership until the last cent clears–hands you lien rights under UCC §2-401.
Set a 7 a.m. automation that dispatches you a PDF copy of rows where label equals "queued" and release date equals current day; the function needs 11 lines of Javascript and runs on basic accounts. Insert the same script into a second timer that fires every Monday at 9 a.m. to move rows older than 45 days into the BACKLOG tab, keeping the main sheet below 500 rows so load speed stays under one second on phone.
Charge one-eighth of the project fee for the waiver; studios listed on the AOI survey 2023 report a mean surcharge of 12 %. State that the fee is "non-refundable under any circumstances" to block restitution claims.
Finally, park a "no-context" buffer of 6 % total hours in every timeline. When WarnerMedia injected this rule across 14 concurrent video shoots, they absorbed three force-majeure location changes without slipping delivery once. That 6 % runs less than one overtime weekend and earns you calm stakeholders.
Clamp the loop to 24 hours, not 25. A University of Cologne study timed 133 paired sessions; every extra hour beyond 24 added concept drift by 1.4 %, compounding to 34 % after a month. Use calendar hard stops, not reminders.
Dynamic for any year. Replace every literal 2024 in formulas with YEAR(NOW()). Build dropdown in A1 of a control tab: Data → Data validation → List → 2023,2024,2025…. Use it with INDIRECT("Control!A1") inside the initial DATE() call. Switching the dropdown rebuilds the entire grid and recalculates week numbers instantly.
Monthly breaks go on row 3. In A3 enter IF(DAY(A1)=1,UPPER(TEXT(A1,"mmm")),"") and fill right. Mask redundant month names with conditional format: custom formula A3="", white font. Result: clean 365-column strip with day headers, week row, and month labels only on day-1 day.
Hold row 1 (View → Pin → Row 1) so Trello ignores it during parse.
Kill spaces in column headers for underscores:"Publish_Date" is recognized faster than "Pub Date".
Insert emoji as Unicode text, not IMAGE functions, or Trello renders them as blanks.
Force ISO date format YYYY-MM-DD with =TEXT(D2,"yyyy-mm-dd") to skip date chaos.
Export just the tab you need; stick &single=true to the URL to mask other sheets.
Pick File → Share → Link → View only; Trello bails on locked addresses.
Re-hit the board post every tweak; Trello stores the feed for 15 min. Append &fresh=rand to the URL should you crave an real-time pull.
2. Social ad: 1080 × 1350 loop graphic for a mock café. 3-frame loop, 1.5 s cycle, CMYK #4a2c2a → #f5e1c3 gradient. Export as 800 kB MP4. Caption: "$0.08 CPC mock, 3 % CTR forecast." Drop in Google Drive, "anyone with link."
Isolate the volume column: =INDEX(SPLIT(B2,","),1,2) returns raw search volume. Convert to thousands with =VALUE(LEFT(D2,LEN(D2)-1))/1000 when the API adds "K". Conditional-format cells <100 in crimson; emphasize >
Fetch the last 90 days of Search Console traffic into column H with the integrated add-on; use one ARRAYFORMULA to ratio impressions by CTR and generate the traffic projection for the next 12 weeks. Google Drive share Link To direct Link that forecast with a second ARRAYFORMULA that boosts average order value by expected conversions; the result gives you a monetary value per post before you draft a single line. Hide these columns, secure them from editors, and create a named range "ROI_range" so you can cite it in conditional formatting that turns the row colored only when predicted income exceeds $350.
Handle Deadlines Around Exams with a 15-Minute Daily Sprint
Fire a phone alarm for 05:45, open the project file before breakfast, and export one micro-milestone before 06:00. 15 focused minutes at that hour beats 45 groggy minutes after lectures.
Finally, set a two-minute trigger: Tools → script editor → Current project triggers → Add trigger → choose function "zeroAlert", event "On edit", notifications daily at 07:00. You’ll receive an email each morning if any category slips negative, keeping the balance at exact zero without daily babysitting.
