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Place capture tools where you will see and use them without having to remember. The best capture system is one your environment triggers automatically — not one that depends on willpower or recall.
Every moment you spend attending to one thing is a moment you cannot spend attending to anything else. Where you direct attention is the most consequential decision you make, and you are making it constantly — whether you realize it or not.
Rather than relying on willpower create contexts that make desired behavior natural.
Physical cues in your environment trigger more reliably than mental intentions.
Position trigger cues where you will encounter them at the right moment.
Define good defaults so that the do-nothing option is acceptable.
Your environment can enforce behaviors that willpower alone cannot sustain.