Build a task-capture system you'll actually check, not just add to
The problem usually isn't capturing tasks. It's a system nobody re-opens.
- Use it for
- Anyone whose to-do list has become a graveyard nobody reviews.
Most task-management failures aren't a capture problem — people are generally fine at writing tasks down somewhere. The failure is a review problem: the list grows, never gets revisited as a whole, and turns into a graveyard of half-remembered intentions nobody trusts enough to check before starting the day. Adding a fancier app doesn't fix this; it just moves the graveyard. The fix is a specific, small review habit paired to wherever tasks already land.
This prompt designs that review habit around your actual current tools and habits, not a system overhaul.
When not to use this
If you already have a task system you trust and check regularly, this solves a problem you don't have — don't fix what isn't broken. This is for the specific symptom of a list that's grown untrustworthy.
Did this work?
You end up with a system specific enough to actually follow this week — not a generic productivity-app recommendation you'll abandon in two weeks like the last one.
Tested on claude-opus-5. Evidence status is draft; it moves to battle-tested only on recorded runs, never by hand.