# Brain dump

> A quick, unfiltered capture of open tasks, concerns and ideas before they are sorted into a workable system.

## What it means

What a brain dump is , how it differs from journalling, and a three-step method — dump, sort into do / schedule / drop, pick three — with a printable prompt list (work, home, people, money, admin, ideas). Neutral about ADHD, no clinical claims.

## A practical example

For five minutes, capture every promise and concern without organising it; only afterwards sort, schedule or drop each item.

## Put it into practice

- Name the concrete situation before applying the label. Brain dump is useful only when it changes a choice, boundary or next action.
- Make the state visible: write the owner, time, source or stopping condition down instead of relying on memory.
- Review what happened. Keep the part that reduced ambiguity and change the part that added ceremony without helping the work.

## How it relates to Plexii

capture with a Sticky and the single-key quick add (/help/widget-sticky, /help/quick-add-keys), keep what you owe in Attention (/help/widget-attention), and sort into the Tasks widget (/help/widget-tasks). Link /templates/weekly-reset and /blog/track-commitments.