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Turn a brain dump into a task list

Everything you are carrying, in one box, in any order. Out comes something structured enough to work from.

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How it works

Three steps, about five seconds

01

Empty your head

In any order, unpunctuated, mid-thought. The point is to get it out of your head, not to write it well.

02

Let it sort

It separates the real tasks from the worries, attaches the dates you mentioned, and groups what belongs together.

03

Work from the list

Copy it into whatever you already use. Nothing here asks you to move to a new system.

An example

One paste, every ask in it

A Sunday evening dump, unpunctuated, in the order it came out.

What went in

need to sort the VAT thing before the 20th, ring back the Hartford people, I still havent done the insurance renewal and thats end of month, book flights for the Berlin thing, talk to Miel about the contractor invoices, the website copy is still half finished, feel like Im forgetting something with the audit, chase Sarah again

File the VAT returnYou · Before the 20th
Renew the insuranceYou · End of month
Call Hartford backYou · No date given
Book Berlin flightsYou · No date given
Chase SarahYou · Overdue, repeat

"Feel like I am forgetting something with the audit" is not a task and does not become one. It comes back as an open question to resolve, because turning a worry into a fake task is how a list stops being trustworthy.

The rules it follows

Tasks, not worries dressed as tasks

The useful part is what it refuses to turn into a task.

What becomes a task

  • Anything with a verb and an outcome
  • Deadlines you mentioned in passing
  • Things you have already deferred more than once
  • Items that belong to someone else, marked as waiting
  • Recurring items you keep rewriting

What stays a question

  • Vague unease about a project
  • Things that depend on a decision not yet made
  • Anything where the next step is unknown
  • Ideas, kept separate from commitments
  • Feelings about work, which are real but not actionable
What people paste in

The jobs it gets used for

Sunday nightThe list that is keeping you awake, written down so it stops circling.
After a week offEverything you remembered while you were meant to be resting.
Before a holidayWhat has to be handed over, what has to be finished, what can wait.
Quarter endClient work, admin and the things you keep deferring, all at once.
Starting a projectA hundred half-thoughts that need to become a first week.
When nothing is movingToo much in your head to pick a first thing. The list picks it for you.
Beyond one email

One thread, one list. You have about two hundred.

If this email had four asks buried in it, the ones you scrolled past this morning are not empty either. Pidgy does this to every email as it lands.

Every email, not this one

Pidgy reads the whole inbox as it arrives and pulls the asks out automatically, so nothing depends on you remembering to check.

Tracks who owes you what

Your own tasks, and the three people who have gone quiet on you, how long it has been, and a drafted chase ready for each.

Lands in your day

Tasks drop into a ranked list and into calendar blocks, with deadlines attached. No second app, no copy-paste.

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Questions

Questions, answered

Is it really free?
Yes. Ten runs a day across all the Pidgy free tools, with no account and no card. You only see the counter once three runs remain.
Does the order matter?
No. Type it in whatever order it arrives. Sorting it is the tool's job, and trying to structure it while you are emptying your head is what makes people stop halfway.
What happens to the things that are not tasks?
They come back as open questions rather than as tasks. A list where half the items cannot be completed is a list you stop trusting after a week.
Can I get it into my existing task app?
Copy as a checklist and paste. Most task tools, including Todoist, TickTick and Microsoft To Do, will parse a pasted checklist into separate items.
Is this a productivity system?
No, it is a capture step. It does one part of what GTD calls a mind sweep, and it does not ask you to adopt anything.
Do you store what I paste?
No. The text is processed to produce the result and not kept. The tool sets no cookies and needs no consent banner. One random id sits in your browser's local storage to count the free runs, and it identifies nobody.
How is this different from Pidgy?
This structures what you type. Pidgy structures what arrives, pulling the tasks out of every email as it lands so the list builds itself rather than waiting for you to remember.

Your head is one source. Your inbox is the bigger one.

Most of what you are carrying arrived by email. Pidgy reads all of it, pulls out the asks, and tells you which five need you today.

Email only, nothing else asked. We reply either way.