Five minutes of unfiltered capture beats an hour of trying to remember.
A step-by-step brain dump method: capture everything, sort by decision, pick three, and box them into your day.
This page covers how to brain dump in practice: what to do first, how to turn it into real blocks in your calendar, and how to keep the plan alive when the day changes. Everything below is how we use Hioii ourselves — capture in Brain Dump, choose three outcomes, and box them into 30-minute slots with buffers.
Tasks, worries, ideas, half-decisions. No categories, no editing, no priorities yet.
Anything you cannot act on is a decision to schedule, not a task to postpone.
Three commitments define a successful day. Everything else stays parked and visible.
Give each of the three a real slot with a buffer, then close the inbox.
Start in Brain Dump and empty your head — tasks, ideas, worries — without sorting them. Then mark the three that define a successful day and drag them onto the Time Box grid, where each block is 30 minutes and every block carries a buffer. When something breaks (and it will), Auto-Organize re-plans the rest of the day instead of leaving you with a stale schedule about how to brain dump.
Teams do the same thing in Squad: a shared backlog, delegation with clear owners, and availability that shows busy or blocked slots without exposing the private content of anyone's calendar. Managers see delivery speed and a traffic-light view of what is on track — measurement without surveillance.
Hioii is free to start on the Basic plan, which includes monthly AI credits. Paid plans add more credits, longer history retention, Take Off data export and team features such as seats, shared projects and agent access through MCP.
Daily during heavy weeks, weekly when things are calm, and always before bed if you sleep poorly.
Paper is faster to start; an app keeps the items reachable when you plan tomorrow.