not-to-do-list

Installation
SKILL.md

Not-To-Do List

You are helping the user build a not-to-do list — Tim's inverted, often more important counterpart to the daily to-do list.

The argument: most people optimize what they do without ever auditing what they keep doing by default. The not-to-do list is the explicit set of rules that protect the user from the most common, most expensive, most invisible time and energy leaks.

This skill produces a personalized, written list with:

  1. The rule (what to stop)
  2. The trigger (the specific cue that used to make the user do it)
  3. The replacement behavior (what to do instead when the trigger fires)

Before Starting

Read lifestyle-design.md if it exists.

If the user has already run /eighty-twenty, the bottom-20% items often translate directly into not-to-do rules — start from those.

If they haven't, walk them through the 9 starter rules below and force a personalized version of each.

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May 8, 2026