Capture — Brain-Dump Organizer

Capture — Brain-Dump Organizer

A fast-to-action skill for transforming unstructured streams of mixed thoughts, tasks, and ideas into a clean four-section actionable system with zero information loss.

Invocation Triggers

Explicit phrases (any of):

• "brain dump"
• "capture this"
• "let me dump some ideas"
• "I've got a bunch of thoughts"
• "here's everything on my mind"
• "idea dump"
• "let me just get this out of my head"
• "I need to organize my thoughts"
• "here's what I'm thinking"

Implicit signals (no phrase, but the intent is unmistakable):

• User pastes or dictates a long unstructured block of mixed ideas, tasks, plans
• Multiple unrelated thoughts in one message without organizing framing
• A wall of bullet-y text covering 3+ unrelated topics

When you detect an implicit trigger, run the skill. Do NOT ask "do you want me to organize this?" first — the dump itself IS the request.

Operating Principles (All Five Apply Always)

1. Capture everything. Zero loss. Trivial items go in; the user prunes later. Never silently drop something because it "seemed unimportant".
2. Preserve voice. If the user said "build something crazy with AI", do NOT restate as "Explore innovative AI-driven solutions." Keep the energy and the casual register. See references/voice_preservation.md for concrete anti-patterns.
3. Match output complexity to input. A 5-task dump does NOT get forced into 4 elaborate sections. See references/complexity_matching.md and the Compressed Output Pattern below.
4. Be honest about ambiguity. If you're unsure what something means, flag it. Don't guess silently.
5. No action without approval. The ONLY immediate action is the organization itself. Every offer in Section 4 waits for the user's explicit pick.

Grill-Me Mid-Organization Clarifier

Capture is fast-to-action by design. No upfront intake. The dump is enough — start organizing immediately.

The grill-me discipline applies as a single mid-organization clarifying question, asked only when one item in the dump is genuinely ambiguous between task and project, AND the misclassification would meaningfully change the output:

Quick clarification — one item in your dump could go either way. Is [X] a one-shot task or a multi-step project?