Here’s a testimonial from Cyborganize user Sam S.:

“I am liking the BrainStormSW software much better than the other task management systems. I think it will become even more powerful for managing tasks when I implement the full Cyborganize workflow.

Here’s a list of the to-do methods I’ve used in the past:
• student planner
• Palm Pilot
• Moleskine notebook
• Ta-da list
• Google Docs
• Microsoft Project
• Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method
• Brian Tracy’s time management systems
• Getting Things Done
• Stephen Covey’s First Things First

I like the BrainStorm software better than these other systems and am excited to introduce the Cyborganize techniques.

…I started thinking about the important features that differentiate BrainStormSW and Cyborganize from the other systems. One of the most important things is that Cyborganize was developed by someone who was under a great deal of stress as a result of health issues and starting a new business. Cyborganize cuts out a lot of the extraneous fluff and focuses on helping people become productive right away.

Other time management systems were developed by people who had fairly cushy lives. David Allen is a high-paid consultant, Steve Pavlina started earning half a million dollars a year fairly quickly, Tony Robbins was a multimillionaire before he developed his time management system, Brian Tracy was Chief Operating Officer of a $200 million real estate company, Stephen Covey had a close-knit supportive family, and 37signals was the darling of the tech press.

Cyborganize is a system for real people.”

Simon writes:

“Thanks for the other article about Cyborganize, Joseph. Quite insightful.

It’s funny but it’s just the thing I’ve been looking for, without knowing it. I’d been applying the same concept but incredibly poorly and inefficiently.

I am going to be trying it out over the next few days hopefully.”

Hi, my name is Joseph Buchignani, and I’m the creator of Cyborganize. Its design goals proceed directly from the challenges imposed on me by three factors:

• 15 years of general life failure, due to chronic fatigue syndrome
• Great intellectual curiosity and a high reading appetite
• Great (but unfulfilled) ambitions

When these factors combined, they produced the following effects:

• Massive information overload, in sheer volume
• A desperate scramble to keep up with day-to-day emergencies
• A frustrated inability to synthesize and pivot on info old and new
• High mental dissonance and fragmentation leading to demotivation
• An info processing system in deep failure, being regularly scrapped and restarted
• Ineffective execution sequencing and trouble finishing what I started
• An addiction to new info intake in order to escape facing the mess of the info I’d already consumed.

Does any of that sound familiar to you?

I searched endlessly through the self-improvement genre for a magic bullet to fix my general life failure. Simultaneously, I deeply investigated questions which radically altered my worldview, identity and life objectives. And also, I scrambled just to make it through life on a day-to-day basis, while ineffectually trying to turn various pet projects into viable businesses.

You can imagine the chaos of attacking all three of these activities at once, particularly since they were all interconnected.

Thanks to Cyborganize I found the cause of my general life failure – an extreme sensitivity to almost all foods, which I corrected by going on a strict paleo elimination diet. I had found my magic bullet.

Execution before everything else

During those days of chronic fatigue and low focus, Cyborganize helped me to survive and to keep my mind in some semblance of order. I directly credit Cyborganize for the key insight that all my life problems were rooted in biological cycles caused by food intolerances. After understanding this, I relied on Cyborganize heavily during the years it took to find an elimination diet that could restore me to normal health. As before, there were massive amounts of info to consume and pivot upon, while simultaneously managing real-time execution and tracking and analyzing the results.

Now you can begin to see why Cyborganize is so stripped down, so lacking in many features that other personal productivity and info management systems proudly boast.

In Cyborganize, nothing is ever finished. Reviews are always optional. You never file for the sake of filing. There are no TODO statuses to tweak and no priority rankings to adjust. You can go years without sorting anything but your tasks.

Where other systems impose a structure on you in order to give you discipline, Cyborganize merely provides a habitual method of performing whichever mode of thinking you prefer to engage in at the moment – right-brain, left-brain or focused execution.

Cyborganize is a chaos engine. It seeks to do only two things:

1. Absorb the bleeding edge of your info consumption into your mental map, with minimal resulting overhead;
2. Continually output the optimal critical path.

This means that everything else is allowed to remain in wild chaos. And that’s a good thing.

A Cyborganize user doesn’t go back to dot his i’s and cross his t’s. He knows that a year from now, 95% of the thoughts and information he’s working on will no longer be important. So why waste time now carefully organizing them? Instead, get new information. Take new action. Obtain new results. Complete the current challenge and move on to the next one.

Getting away with deliberate disorganization

Without proper safeguards this chaos would rapidly devolve into ineffectual fragmentation. That’s why most personal productivity systems require tedious organizational rituals. Cyborganize avoids this trap with its vast, patient and orderly info reservoirs, which await the user’s organizing touch whenever review is needed, but not before then.

Most of the time the critical path lies forward, not backwards. With Cyborganize the way back is always clearly lit, so you need not fear striking boldly into the primeval forests of the unknown and untamed.

Your brain moves through life in a mad chaotic dance, recombining new feedback, taking new action, and simultaneously processing with both left and right brain modes. Cyborganize mimics this chaotic flow with three different modes:

1. The left-brain “snippet loop”
2. The right-brain “longform loop”
3. Focused execution sessions

What the creator of Supermemo dreamed of but failed to do, Cyborganize delivers. It provides spaced repetition and review, made enjoyable by ever-fresh newness in approach and angle. The unique affordances of the three modes reinforce and cross-fertilize each other. When all three are brought to bear on a single topic, one cannot fail to achieve brilliant productivity.

Feel the power

As you use it over time, Cyborganize’s files become laden with thoughts, dreams, and plans, gestated almost to maturity, needing only a little push. The real difficulty becomes choosing which to complete first.

As someone who used to suffer from chronic fatigue, I was forced to convert every available drop of willpower and thought into productive action. Now you can do the same. Like a cactus hoarding water, Cyborganize will convert each drop of effort expended into new personal growth.