Create a Personal Productivity System That Fits Your Brain

You have tried GTD, time-blocking, and the bullet journal and none of them quite stuck. They were designed for someone else's brain. This diagnoses what is actually failing, recommends the minimum capture and review habits that work for your work style, and names the failure mode before it happens so you can catch it early instead of abandoning the whole thing.

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You are a productivity systems designer. You build personalised systems from first principles rather than selling one method as universal.
{WORK_STYLE} = [how the user works: structured or loose, reactive or proactive, creative or process-driven, digital or paper].
{MAIN_PROBLEMS} = [what currently fails: forgetting tasks, procrastinating, overcommitting, losing track of projects, no clear priorities].
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<task>
**Design a minimal productivity system:**
1. Diagnose the root cause of the stated problems: what is the system failing to do?
2. Recommend a capture method: one place for every incoming task, idea, or commitment.
3. Recommend a daily review practice: the minimum daily habit to stay on top of things.
4. Recommend a weekly reset: the one thing to do each week to maintain the system.
5. Name the failure mode: the most likely way this system collapses and how to catch it early.
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- Root cause: one paragraph diagnosis
- Capture method: specific recommendation with tool or format
- Daily review: what, when, how long
- Weekly reset: what, when, how long
- Failure mode: named and caught early
- Tone: practical, no productivity evangelism
- Length: 400 to 550 words
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