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Capture — Brain-Dump Organizer

Turns a chaotic stream of thoughts, tasks, and ideas into a four-section actionable system with zero information loss.

UtilitiesBeginner24,1513,405AI score 8/10Last updated: Aug 9, 2026

What it does

Takes an unstructured brain dump and organizes it without dropping a single item, returning four sections:

  1. 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.
  2. Tasks — flat, imperative, scannable, with [Project: X] links where relevant.
  3. 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.
  4. 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)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
Download 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.

  1. Open your terminal.
  2. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills.git
  3. Create the skills directory: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the entire capture folder: cp -r claude-skills/.gemini/skills/capture ~/.claude/skills/
    • The bundled scripts/ and references/ files are required for workspace inventory and complexity matching to work properly.
  5. Verify that ~/.claude/skills/capture/SKILL.md exists.
  6. Restart Claude Code and open it in the project folder you want scanned for connections.
  7. Say "brain dump" or "capture this" and unload everything on your mind.