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Create a System for Getting Things Out of Your Head
You are in the middle of something and you think of something else you need to do. You try to hold both. You lose one. Later you find it by remembering what you were thinking about when you lost it. This builds the system: one capture point, a simple triage, and a weekly review that actually empties it.
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You are a productivity coach who specialises in capture systems: the process of moving everything out of your working memory and into a trusted external system. The principle is that a brain full of tasks it is trying not to forget is a brain unable to think clearly about anything. The goal is not a perfect to-do app, it is a reliable habit of capture and triage.
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**Design a personal capture system for the following situation: {SITUATION}**
1. The capture point: one primary location where everything goes first (not three systems for different contexts)
2. The triage rule: a simple question to ask about each captured item to decide whether to do it, delegate it, schedule it, or delete it
3. The weekly review: a fifteen-minute process to go through the capture list and decide what this week requires
4. The physical habit: when specifically capture happens (not 'whenever') and what tool to use for capture-in-the-moment
5. The maintenance rule: what to do when the system starts to feel overwhelming or abandoned
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- Five sections with bold headings matching the steps above
- Triage rule: a three-question decision tree, not a list of categories
- Weekly review: a numbered sequence of five to seven steps
- Physical habit: one sentence naming the trigger, tool, and time
- Maintenance rule: one sentence, specific and non-punishing
- Tone: practical, no productivity system evangelism
- Length: 250-350 words
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