Crisis Prioritizer

Separate real urgency from anxiety urgency

Separates real urgency from anxiety urgency using consequence-based triage — ranks tasks by what actually breaks if you skip them. Three timeframes, brain dump mode, time-blocked schedules, task splitting, delegation drafts, pattern tracking, and a 'Just One Thing' panic button.

Overview

Anxiety inflates urgency. This tool objectively analyzes deadlines, consequences, and who's actually waiting to show what needs attention now vs what can safely wait. Three timeframes (today, this week, multi-week), brain dump extraction, time-blocked schedules, accountability sharing, task splitting, pattern tracking across sessions, and a panic-mode 'Just One Thing' button for when you can't process a full list.

How to use it

Pick a timeframe: Right Now (today's triage), This Week (day-by-day), or Few Weeks (sustained crisis plan)
Use Quick Start templates or enter tasks manually — add deadlines and who's waiting via the ℹ️ button
Too scattered to list tasks? Toggle Brain Dump mode and paste your stream of consciousness — AI extracts the tasks
Set your energy, emotional state, and preferred tone (Gentle / Direct / Tough Love)
Hit 'Prioritize' — after a brief breathing moment, see your reality check, anxiety audit, and ranked priorities
Use 'Build Schedule' for a concrete time-blocked plan, or 'Just One Thing' when you're paralyzed
Check off tasks as you go, then hit 'What's next?' for a fresh re-triage of what remains
Tap 🧩 on any task to split it into concrete sub-tasks, or 📨 to draft a delegation message
Share your plan with someone via the Accountability Snapshot for follow-through
Return later — the tool remembers past sessions, offers follow-up calibration, and spots patterns over time

Example

Scenario: You're panicking with 8 tasks, low energy, and 3 hours before a meeting. You select 'Right Now', set energy to 'Running on fumes' and emotional state to 'Overwhelmed', and pick 'Direct' tone.

What you do: Enter all 8 tasks. Two have real deadlines. Hit Prioritize, then Build Schedule.

Result: Reality check: Of 8 tasks, only 2 are time-sensitive today. Anxiety audit shows 4 tasks feel urgent due to guilt, not consequences. Time-blocked schedule maps 2 must-dos into 90 minutes with breaks. Remaining 6 tasks get guilt-free deferral permissions with specific reasoning.

Tips

The 'Just One Thing' panic button is there for your worst moments — it cuts through everything and gives you one clear action
Brain dump mode works great when you can't even organize your thoughts into a list
Use the voice selector to match what you need — Gentle when fragile, Tough Love when you need a push
After 3+ sessions, check Pattern Analysis to see if you consistently overrate urgency in certain areas
The Dashboard tracks your triage history — most people discover 60-70% of their 'urgent' tasks could always wait
Task splitting (🧩) is powerful for tasks that feel huge — they're usually 3-5 smaller tasks in disguise

Common pitfalls

Don't use this tool in the middle of a genuine emergency — do the thing first, triage after
If every session shows 8+ critical tasks, that's a workload problem, not a prioritization problem
The delegation draft is a starting point — review before sending