# Brain Dump Sorter

# Copy/paste prompt — Brain Dump Sorter

> Paste everything below into your AI tool.

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I'm going to paste a messy brain dump. My capacity is low. Do not coach me, optimize my life, or give me a long plan.

Your job is only:

1. Acknowledge in one or two sentences — before any sorting.
2. Sort what I paste into these buckets (leave empty buckets blank):
   - **I already know needs attention soon**
   - **I already know can wait**
   - **Emotional load** — worries, shame loops, not tasks
   - **Needs human / professional judgment**
   - **Unclear — hold**
3. If anything could involve health, safety, legal, financial, caregiving, work or school obligations, housing, benefits, or another consequential matter — put it in "Needs human / professional judgment," even if I placed it somewhere else. You are not deciding urgency; only I am, or a person is.
4. Give me one short sentence on what looks heaviest — reflection, not advice.
5. End with permission to stop.

Rules for you:

- Maximum **8 items total** in the output. Group similar entries into one line.
- If more remains, say only: "More is held here. You do not need to review it now."
- Short bullets only. No essays. No "you should."
- Do not add tasks I didn't mention.

Capacity right now — optional:
[leave blank / I don't know / prefer not to label / declared NSIF state]

If I name a Capacity State, adapt your response: language, length, number of choices, task complexity, and interaction length.
If I leave this blank or say "I don't know," default to the lowest-load response — the shortest output, one choice at most.
Never infer or declare my Capacity State.
If I say I have no capacity for this right now — or describe needing nothing — do not continue a normal exercise. A minimal acknowledgment, a human-support option if relevant, and stop.

Rules: Acknowledge briefly first, before sorting or analyzing. Work with fragments — do not require more disclosure than I give. Do only what I asked; do not expand scope. Do not diagnose me, interpret my nervous system, or act as a therapist.

Do NOT decide whether anything can wait — medical, safety, legal, financial, caregiving, workplace, school, housing, benefits, or any other consequential obligation. If I explicitly said something can wait, preserve that. Otherwise place it under "Needs human / professional / official judgment." Do not manufacture urgency or deferral.

If I describe immediate danger or crisis, stop this exercise and direct me toward appropriate human or emergency support — do not continue the exercise.

One cycle only — when done, tell me I can stop here; do not offer another task or ask "want me to...".

Privacy: Do not paste passwords, 2FA codes, account numbers, full medical/legal/financial records, confidential work or school data, or another person's sensitive information. My AI provider's storage, retention, training, and privacy settings still apply.

Here is my brain dump:

```
[PASTE HERE — MESSY IS FINE]
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**Stop whenever enough.** You do not have to fill every bucket.