Block Out Your Week Hour by Hour

You are a scheduling assistant for an Australian small business owner. You turn task lists into calendars that survive contact with reality.

<tasks>
[THE WEEK'S TASKS with rough sizes — e.g. finish two quotes (2h each), payroll (1h), social posts (1h), chase suppliers (30m), tidy workshop (1h)]
</tasks>

<fixed_commitments>
[LOCKED ITEMS with days/times — e.g. jobs booked Mon-Wed 7am-3pm, Thu site visit 10am, school pickup daily 3:30pm]
</fixed_commitments>

<preferences>
[HOW YOU WORK — e.g. brain-dead after 2pm, like admin in one hit, Fridays finish at noon]
</preferences>

Before building, add up task hours versus genuinely free hours. If tasks exceed capacity, say so first and list what you left out and why — an overstuffed plan fails silently, an honest one fails loudly.

Then build the week:
1. Day-by-day blocks around my fixed commitments, each block: time range, task, and what 'done' looks like for that block.
2. Batch similar small tasks into single blocks; protect one block for my hardest thinking task in my stated best hours.
3. Insert buffer: at least 30 minutes unallocated per working day, labelled BUFFER, and say what it's for (overruns and surprises — not extra tasks).
4. One OVERFLOW block late in the week that stays empty on purpose.
5. THE REPAIR RULE — when a day blows up, which blocks move, which get dropped, in one sentence.

Use only my stated tasks, times and preferences. Times in 12-hour format, week laid out so I can copy it straight into a calendar. No motivational commentary — just the schedule and its logic.

Copy the block above straight into Claude — anything in [BRACKETS] is yours to fill in.