--- name: Brain Dump Sorter category: productivity works_with: [claude, chatgpt, gemini] difficulty: plug-and-play version: 1.0 source: adapted (user-submitted collection, rewritten) tested: no --- # Brain Dump Sorter ## What it does Empties everything from your head — tasks, errands, worries — and sorts it into today / this week / not actually urgent, with a blunt call on what to cut. ## When to use it - Your day feels overwhelming before it starts - You're carrying a mental list and afraid of dropping something - First step of any planning session ## The skill ``` I'm listing everything on my mind right now — tasks, errands, things I'm worried about forgetting. Unsorted, small stuff included: [DUMP EVERYTHING] Sort it into exactly 3 lists: 1. MUST HAPPEN TODAY — things with real consequences if skipped today 2. MATTERS, CAN WAIT — important within days, not hours 3. FEELS URGENT, ISN'T — things creating noise in my head without a real deadline. Say why each one landed here. Then be honest: - Am I overloaded? If yes, name specifically what to cut or delay — don't just tell me to "prioritize". - If anything I listed is actually a worry rather than a task, say so and suggest the one action that would quiet it. ``` ## Example output [TO FILL AFTER TESTING] ## Tweaks - Do it by voice-to-text — dumping out loud is faster and more honest - Feed list 1 straight into the Realistic Day Planner --- --- name: Realistic Day Planner category: productivity works_with: [claude, chatgpt, gemini] difficulty: plug-and-play version: 1.0 source: adapted (user-submitted collection, rewritten) tested: no --- # Realistic Day Planner ## What it does Builds a time-blocked schedule around your actual available hours — with buffers — and tells you straight when you've planned more day than exists. ## When to use it - Every morning, after sorting your list - Your plans keep collapsing by noon - Days with fixed commitments squeezing your free time ## The skill ``` Today's tasks (already prioritized): [PASTE LIST] Fixed commitments and unavailable times: [MEETINGS, WORK HOURS, ETC.] When my energy is highest: [MORNING / AFTERNOON / EVENING] Build a time-blocked schedule for today. Rules: - Add buffer between blocks — assume everything runs 25% longer than I think. - Put the hardest task in my high-energy window. - Include a real break. Not "if time allows" — scheduled. - REALITY CHECK: if this doesn't fit in the hours available, say so plainly and tell me which tasks to move to tomorrow. Do not compress buffers to make an impossible day look possible. ``` ## Example output [TO FILL AFTER TESTING] ## Tweaks - Add "I always underestimate [type of task]" once you learn your pattern - Ask for the schedule in a copy-pasteable format for your calendar --- --- name: Weekly Reset category: productivity works_with: [claude, chatgpt, gemini] difficulty: plug-and-play version: 1.0 source: adapted (user-submitted collection, rewritten) tested: no --- # Weekly Reset ## What it does Five minutes on Sunday that lays your goals across the week around fixed commitments — so you steer the week instead of reacting to it. ## When to use it - Sunday night or Monday morning, every week - Weeks with a deadline or big deliverable to work backward from - After a chaotic week, to take back control ## The skill ``` Planning my week. Main goals this week (max 3): [GOALS] Fixed commitments: [MEETINGS, APPOINTMENTS, RECURRING EVENTS] Build a week layout: - Fit goal-work around the fixed commitments, biggest goal gets the best slots. - Buffer time every day for the unexpected — a week with no slack is a plan to fail. - Tell me which day is realistically my LIGHTEST, so I know where things can move when the week punches back. - If 3 goals don't fit around my commitments, say which one to drop this week rather than pretending all 3 fit. ``` ## Example output [TO FILL AFTER TESTING] ## Tweaks - Add last week's review output so the plan learns from what happened - Keep goals to 3 max — more than that is a wish list, not a plan --- --- name: Session Task Tracker category: productivity works_with: [claude, chatgpt, gemini] difficulty: plug-and-play version: 1.0 source: adapted (user-submitted collection, rewritten) tested: no --- # Session Task Tracker ## What it does Makes the AI silently collect every task, follow-up, and deadline you mention during a conversation, then hand you one organized list at the end — nothing slips. ## When to use it - Start of any planning or brainstorming conversation - Long working sessions where to-dos surface as side comments - You keep remembering commitments only after it's too late ## The skill ``` For the rest of this conversation: quietly track anything I mention needing to do, follow up on, or remember. Don't interrupt to confirm each one — just collect. When I say "wrap up" (or the conversation ends), give me one list titled THINGS TO REMEMBER: - Sorted by time sensitivity, most urgent first - Any specific date or deadline I mentioned flagged in bold - Anything I mentioned twice marked with (x2) — repetition means it's weighing on me - If something I said was vague ("deal with the insurance thing"), turn it into a concrete next action ``` ## Example output [TO FILL AFTER TESTING] ## Tweaks - End sessions with "wrap up" as a habit trigger - Paste the output list into tomorrow's Brain Dump Sorter — the loop closes itself --- --- name: Honest Weekly Review category: productivity works_with: [claude, chatgpt, gemini] difficulty: plug-and-play version: 1.0 source: adapted (user-submitted collection, rewritten) tested: no --- # Honest Weekly Review ## What it does A blunt end-of-week debrief that finds the pattern in what you keep NOT doing — and gives you one specific change, not a motivational speech. ## When to use it - End of every week, especially the messy ones - The same tasks keep rolling over week after week - Before your Weekly Reset, so next week's plan learns something ## The skill ``` Here's how my week actually went: - Got done: [LIST] - Didn't get to: [LIST] - Where it went off track: [WHAT HAPPENED] Be honest with me: 1. THE PATTERN — What keeps showing up in what I fail to finish? Look at the type of task, not just the task. 2. THE REAL CAUSE — Is it my planning, my time estimates, or something I keep avoiding? Pick one and defend it with evidence from what I told you. 3. ONE CHANGE — A single specific adjustment for next week. Not "manage time better" — something I could explain to a friend in one sentence and they'd know exactly what I'm doing differently. Rule: no praise padding, no "you did great considering". If avoidance is the pattern, name what I'm avoiding. ``` ## Example output [TO FILL AFTER TESTING] ## Tweaks - Save each week's answer — after a month, feed all 4 in and ask for the meta-pattern - Run it even on good weeks; knowing why a week worked matters as much --- --- name: Habit & Energy Check-in category: productivity works_with: [claude, chatgpt, gemini] difficulty: plug-and-play version: 1.0 source: adapted (user-submitted collection, rewritten) tested: no --- # Habit & Energy Check-in ## What it does A weekly one-at-a-time interview about the habits underneath your schedule — sleep, training, screens — ending with which ones are real, which you're dodging, and one small fix. ## When to use it - Weekly, alongside your review - Your schedule looks fine on paper but you're running on fumes - A habit streak quietly died and you haven't admitted it yet ## The skill ``` Habits I'm building or maintaining: [E.G. SLEEP BY 11, DAILY WALK, LESS PHONE AT NIGHT] Interview me about them ONE AT A TIME — ask, wait for my answer, then move to the next. Don't dump all questions at once. After the last one, give me: 1. WORKING — habits that are actually holding, based on what I said (not what I claimed in the first sentence). 2. QUIETLY AVOIDING — where my answers got vague or defensive. Quote my own words back to me as evidence. 3. ONE ADJUSTMENT — the smallest realistic change for next week on the habit that matters most. Shrink the habit before you schedule more willpower. Rule: no motivational push. If a habit is dead, say it's dead and help me restart it smaller. ``` ## Example output [TO FILL AFTER TESTING] ## Tweaks - Answer by voice — you hear your own excuses in real time - Track energy 1-10 each day for a week first; feed the numbers in --- --- name: The Weekly Planning Loop category: productivity tools_required: [Any AI chat (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) — free tiers work] cost: free time_to_set_up: 0 minutes version: 1.0 source: original system built from 6 adapted prompts (see /library productivity skills) tested: no --- # The Weekly Planning Loop ## What it does Six prompts chained into one repeating weekly system: plan the week, run each day, capture everything, review honestly, adjust. The loop closes — each step feeds the next, and the system improves itself weekly. ## What you need Any AI chat app and the 6 productivity skills from the library. No subscriptions, no setup. ## Setup (one time) None. Optionally save the 6 prompts somewhere you can paste from fast (notes app, or as saved snippets). ## The workflow (weekly rhythm) **Sunday evening — 10 min** 1. Honest Weekly Review (on the week that just ended) 2. Habit & Energy Check-in 3. Weekly Reset — feed it what the review told you **Every morning — 5 min** 4. Brain Dump Sorter (start the session with Session Task Tracker active) 5. Realistic Day Planner — feed it the sorted "today" list **Every evening — 1 min** 6. Say "wrap up" — the Session Task Tracker hands you tomorrow's starting list That's the whole loop: the tracker feeds the dump, the dump feeds the day, the days feed the review, the review feeds next week's plan. ## Maintenance habits - The Sunday session is the keystone — if you only keep one piece, keep that - Monthly: paste your 4 weekly reviews back in and ask for the meta-pattern - When the loop breaks (it will), restart with just the morning dump — smallest piece first ## What we stripped The source framed each prompt as a standalone life-fix ("this single prompt turns chaos into a plan in under a minute"). Individually they're fine; the actual value is the loop — no single prompt improves anything if there's no review feeding the next plan. We also removed the implied promise that organizing tasks fixes overwhelm; the habit/energy check exists precisely because it often doesn't.