Brik User Guide

Brik is your execution home base. These guides are written for people who know what they want to do, but keep getting stuck at the moment of starting, choosing, or finishing.

Purpose

Brik is not a generic task list. It is a guided execution system that helps you:

empty your head without sorting everything first
turn messy thoughts into workable next steps
match tasks to your current energy and focus
keep long-term goals visible without carrying all of that weight at once

When to use it

Start here if any of this sounds familiar:

everything feels equally urgent, so you do nothing
you know what matters, but you cannot decide what to do next
you can brainstorm forever, but moving into execution is hard
normal productivity systems feel too rigid, too manual, or too easy to ignore

Step-by-step flow

If you are new, begin with Overview and Onboarding.
Open Capture and dump everything that is currently taking up mental space.
Move to Today and give Brik a quick energy and focus read.
Choose one recommended task and finish one focus block.
Use Plan when you need to shape the queue instead of reacting to it.
Use Goals and Wishlist to decide what should guide Brik now and what should stay parked for later.
Use Review to spot patterns without turning your week into a self-judgment spiral.

What Brik is doing in the background

Brik is constantly trying to reduce the number of choices you have to hold in your head. It takes your captured inputs, turns them into smaller units of work, watches your recent check-in state, and keeps the queue pointed toward the next task that feels most startable right now.

Common gotchas and reassurance

You do not need to capture things in a neat format. A brain dump is enough.
You do not need to answer onboarding perfectly. Honest and approximate is better than polished.
If Brik asks for a check-in before execution, that is not busywork. It is how the recommendation gets more useful.
If a task is blocked, Brik is not punishing you. It is trying to stop you from forcing work that depends on something unfinished.
If you feel overloaded, skip ahead to Your first day and follow that path exactly once.