My Simple Productivity System (for normal people)!
About this video
Su offers a deliberately simple alternative to elaborate productivity systems such as Ali Abdaal’s and Tiago Forte’s, promising most of the benefit from two steps. Step one is capture: get every idea and task out of your head into one frictionless place — for him the free version of Todoist, chosen for its fast phone widget — always starting the entry with an action verb so nothing stays ambiguous. Step two is organise, done later at a laptop: move each captured item to where it will actually be used, following Forte’s rule, whether that is a team meeting agenda in Google Workspace, a video idea in a Notion pipeline page, or a calendar block eight months ahead for a tax refund with the required documents linked. He shows the rhythm repeating through the day — capture, capture, organise — and applies the same logic to Gmail’s snooze feature, which returns an email in the week it becomes actionable. Tasks that are not time-specific can simply live in Todoist until checked off. He frames capture and organise as the first half of Forte’s CODE method, a gentle on-ramp to a fuller second brain.
Key takeaways
- Capture everything into one low-friction app; start each item with an action verb
- Organise later at a keyboard, moving items to where they will be used
- Time-sensitive items belong on the calendar with supporting links attached
- Use Gmail snooze as organise: return mail in the week it needs action
- Two steps — capture and organise — deliver most of a second brain’s benefit
Episode details: published August 2, 2022 · 7:04 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Jeff Su’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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