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Brain dump

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Get everything out of the head and onto the page before organising it.

Variants

  • default

Data fields

The fields a spec's page can set for this component (see switchback show brain-dump --json):

  • seed
  • minutes

Grounding

Helps: when unfinished tasks keep intruding on the work, and each item gets a specific next step written beside it; in the lab, making a specific plan, not just a list, is what quietened unfinished goals (one research group)

Backfires: when items are listed with no next step, which left the goals active in the one study that tested it, and when the read-back takes what was recent for what matters most: free lists favour recently used items

What the grades mean