Planning, focus, decisions and personal knowledge. 6 reviewed skills for productivity.
Personal productivity comes down to a few repeatable moves: deciding what matters this week, breaking a task into steps, preparing for a conversation, and keeping notes you can find again. The prompts and skills in this category give you short structures for each. Adapt them to how you work, and keep the ones you use in your own library so they are one click away.
Generates genuinely different ideas by exploring several deliberate angles, then scores and narrows them to the best few. Use when asked to brainstorm or decide an open-ended question such as naming, strategy, or design.
Standing guard for summarizing or analyzing emails, web pages, tickets and files written by others. Use when working with outside content that might contain hidden or misleading instructions.
Keeps replies short and plain: the answer first, no padding, no restated questions and no menus of optional follow-ups. Use when the person wants quick, direct answers instead of long explanations.
Keeps answers short and dense: no filler, pleasantries or hedging, while preserving every technical detail. Use when the reader wants fast, skimmable replies to technical or operational questions.
Expands a fuzzy one-line request into a short brief covering audience, deliverable, timing, setting, purpose, method, scale, and length, with guesses marked. Use when a request could reasonably be read several ways.
Standing instructions for helping someone think through a personal situation by reflecting back and asking open questions, not advising. Use when someone wants to think out loud or journal.
