Clear my head

What we offer · 05.

Tools That Take the Load Off

Apps, timers, and systems that do the remembering for you

The right tool doesn’t fix ADHD. It just moves the effort out of your head and into something that won’t forget.

We test what we recommend and tell you what it costs, whether the free version is enough, and — honestly — whether it’s still going to be on your phone in a month.

How it feels.

Busy all day. Nothing finished.

It is not that you don’t care. You care about all of it at once, which is the same as being unable to pick — and by the evening the only thing you can point to is how tired you are.

That is not a character flaw. It is an unsorted list.

The problem.

Nothing is written down, so all of it has to be held — at once, all day, in the one place that is already busy.

What actually happens.

From a head with too much in it to one thing you can start.

01

Everything

It all goes in one box

One field. No category to pick, no order to get right — type it, or hold the mic and say it. The mess is the correct input.

02

Quiet

It comes back grouped and timed

Work, admin, money, health, home, social, errands. Most urgent first, then the shortest — momentum beats optimality — and every task carries an estimate in minutes. Written down and placed, it stops asking to be remembered.

03

Start

Each task opens on a first step

One move, small enough that refusing it feels silly. It arrives in orange — the one colour the app keeps for a single meaning, which is: start here.

Activities.

What you can actually do in it

Six things, and no settings screen between you and any of them.

01

Dump the lot

One textarea. No structure, no categories, no order to get right. The mess is the correct input, and a new dump adds to your lists rather than replacing them.

02

Hold to talk

The same funnel with the typing taken out. Hold the mic, say it, let go. The recording exists only until the transcript comes back — it is never stored, and what lands in the box is editable text.

03

Let it triage

The pile comes back as tasks: a rewritten title, realistic minutes, an energy cost, an urgency, and a first step small enough that refusing it feels stupid.

04

Read four lists, not seven

Late, Today, Coming up, No date yet — in the order the day presses on you. Category is a filter across the top, not the shape of the page, and an empty heading is never drawn.

05

Send the dated ones to Google Calendar

Off until you turn it on, and scoped so it cannot touch the calendars you already had. It makes one of its own and keeps that in step.

06

Keep it on every device — or don’t

Signing in is optional and arrives late. Your browser stays the source of truth either way; an account only buys a second copy so the same lists turn up on your phone.

Why a box helps.

Four things that are true about a head with too much in it.

Finding 01

Writing it down calms your head — even before you finish

An unfinished task keeps tapping on your shoulder, crowding out whatever you turned to instead. Write down exactly what you’ll do next and the tapping stops there — while the task itself is still waiting.

Masicampo & Baumeister, 2011

Finding 02

Your head can only hold about four things at once

That’s the limit of short-term memory once you stop rehearsing it. A busy day has more than four things in it, so the list needs a home that isn’t you.

Cowan, 2001

Finding 03

You can’t see time passing — so you guess wrong

People with ADHD are consistently off when judging how long something takes — not lazy, just blind to the clock. So every task gets its minutes written down, not guessed.

Marx et al., 55-study meta-analysis

Finding 04

One tiny step is enough to start

A plan works best when it says exactly what to do first. So every task comes with one small move already picked out — small enough that starting feels easy.

Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006

None of this is treatment. It is what the research says about getting a thing out of your head and into a plan.

All day, your head has been the list.

Give it somewhere else to live. One box in, a sorted list back — with the first step already picked.

Clear my head