Most productivity apps fail because they ask you to organize first. What would invert that?

Every productivity app I've used (Things, Todoist, Notion, Reminders, paper, Bullet Journal) has the same first step: build a system. Set up your areas, projects, tags, contexts, priorities. Get organized.

But the people who most need a productivity app are the ones who can't organize. That's why they need the app. It's a chicken-and-egg problem nobody seems to talk about.

I've been thinking about this while building my own thing (launching here May 20, won't pitch it now) and I keep coming back to: what does a productivity app look like if step one is "dump everything in your head" and step two is "we'll handle the rest"?

Is anyone else seeing this gap, or am I solving a problem only I have?