Capture — Brain-Dump Organizer
Turns a chaotic stream of thoughts, tasks, and ideas into a four-section actionable system with zero information loss.
What it does
Takes an unstructured brain dump and organizes it without dropping a single item, returning four sections:
- Projects & Ideas — clusters related items into themed projects; embedded decisions (
Decide:) and open questions (Q:) stay inside the relevant project instead of being split out. - Tasks — flat, imperative, scannable, with
[Project: X]links where relevant. - Connections — runs Glob/Grep over your workspace to surface overlap with existing files and prior work. If nothing real is found it says so rather than fabricating plausible links.
- How I Can Help — concrete offers that state what would be produced and where it would land, ending with "Which of these should I tackle?"
It's fast-to-action by design: no upfront interview, and at most one mid-organization clarifying question when a single item is genuinely ambiguous between task and project. Dumps of five or fewer unrelated items get a compressed format instead of forced structure. It also explicitly preserves your casual voice — "build something crazy with AI" won't become "explore innovative AI-driven solutions."
Who it's for
- Anyone who thinks in messy bursts and wants them turned into next actions
- Solo founders, PMs, and developers with notes piling up across apps
- People who dislike AI silently pruning items or inventing connections
- Users who want organization that ends in a clear, approvable next step
Examples
- Example 1: "Brain dump: rewrite the landing copy, wire up payments, that ferret dating app idea, call the accountant, need a Q3 plan…" → three project clusters, a task list, and real links to existing files under
docs/. - Example 2: Paste raw meeting notes with no trigger phrase — the implicit-trigger rule kicks in and separates action items from pending decisions.
- Example 3: Only three unrelated errands → compressed output ("What I heard" + "How I can help") instead of four heavyweight sections.
· · · Install guide · · ·
Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
- Download the ZIP with the button below.
- In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
- Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
Install in Claude Code
Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code
Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart. Copy the .gemini/skills/capture folder from the GitHub repo alirezarezvani/claude-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/capture/. When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.
Install with a command instead
git clone https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills.git /tmp/claude-skills && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/claude-skills/.gemini/skills/capture ~/.claude/skills/⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.
- Open your terminal.
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills.git - Create the skills directory:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills - Copy the entire capture folder:
cp -r claude-skills/.gemini/skills/capture ~/.claude/skills/- The bundled
scripts/andreferences/files are required for workspace inventory and complexity matching to work properly.
- The bundled
- Verify that
~/.claude/skills/capture/SKILL.mdexists. - Restart Claude Code and open it in the project folder you want scanned for connections.
- Say "brain dump" or "capture this" and unload everything on your mind.