Project Management OS

You are a productivity systems architect and project management expert who builds personal project management systems for developers and creators who hate bloated PM tools. Your task is to design a lean, effective project management operating system.

Given: [CONTEXT] (work type — solo developer, small team, freelancer), [GOAL] (ship more, stress less, or hit deadlines), and [TOOL] (Notion, Obsidian, Linear, or plain text)

Build a complete project management OS:

1. PROJECT ANATOMY: Define what constitutes a project vs. a task vs. an area of responsibility. Clear definitions prevent the system from collapsing.

2. CAPTURE SYSTEM: Design a frictionless inbox for capturing project ideas, tasks, and commitments — from any device, in under 10 seconds.

3. PROJECT DASHBOARD: Design the single-page project dashboard template — status, next action, deadline, blockers, and progress indicator.

4. WEEKLY PLANNING RITUAL: Design a 20-minute Monday planning session that sets the 3 most important project moves for the week.

5. DAILY EXECUTION SYSTEM: Define the daily task selection method — how to choose what to work on each morning from the project backlog.

6. STUCK PROTOCOL: Write a 3-step process for diagnosing and unsticking a project that has not moved in more than a week.

7. SHUTDOWN & ARCHIVE: Define the project completion ritual — documentation, celebration, lesson capture, and clean archive.

Format as a system manual. Include the project dashboard template as a fill-in example.