That's how an ADHD brain works, diagnosed or not, and an ordinary list doesn't account for it at all. BR Tasks isn't another list. It's a process that takes you from the chaos in your head to one thing to do right now.
Ordinary to-do lists assume you just write everything down and tick it off. With ADHD, the list gets abandoned within a week. BR Tasks is built around what actually gets in the way.
You look at it and do nothing. When everything looks equally important, the brain picks nothing.
In BR Tasks: Sift and the Draw leave you one task for now.
It shows up on the bus, in the shower or mid-conversation. By the time you open an app, it's gone.
In BR Tasks: a field and a mic under your thumb, a widget, Siri, the Action button.
It's been sitting there for three weeks because it's big, boring or unpleasant. A deadline doesn't change that.
In BR Tasks: you mark resistance from S to XL and break the task into steps.
“Five minutes” takes an hour, and an hour goes by like five minutes. The day's plan falls apart before lunch.
In BR Tasks: you estimate time, see the day's total and how long things really took.
One line is enough. BR Tasks picks out the date, the place, the importance and the time on its own. A whole paragraph from your head becomes separate tasks in one go, and a single Undo reverses all of it.
Every task has an importance from A to C, an estimated time and a resistance from S to XL: how much you really don't want to do it. Group the list by date, place or resistance and see at once whether the day fits.
Resistance S–XL. How much it costs you to start. An XL task is your cue to break it into steps.
Total time. Every group shows how many hours it holds. You can see that 9 hours for today is too much.
Importance without color. A is a filled square, B an outline, C a dashed line. Nothing shouts at you in red.
Set how much time you have and draw. Like an old station departures board, the letters flip and stop on a single task. You can redraw once. After that, you start.
Focus shows only what you're doing right now: the title, the steps and your notes. On the Mac, a timer keeps counting in the background. When you finish, you get a sound, confetti and a recorded time that tells you the truth the next time you estimate.
Two rings in the corner of the list: time, and the number of tasks done. A full ring is your typical day, the median of the last four weeks. No points, no streaks to lose and no chart judging you for a slower week.
One orange accent, used only where something needs doing. Everything else stays quiet, so nothing pulls at your attention.
The same tasks on your phone, your Mac and in the browser. Add without opening the app. Offline, everything waits in a queue and sends itself once you're back.
On your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Tick off a task with one tap, without opening the app.
“Add a task in BR Tasks”, or one press of the button on the side of your iPhone. Say it, and it lands in your Inbox.
A link from Safari, an email or a message. Save it as a task with its context instead of keeping forty tabs open.
A keyboard shortcut from any app opens a single line. Type it, hit Enter and get back to work.
No engagement tricks. The app should take less of your attention than it gives back.
I have ADHD. For years I started new to-do lists full of enthusiasm and dropped them within a week, because thirty items at once stressed me out more than they helped. Todoist, paper, notes on my phone: it always ended the same way.
BR Tasks started as a tool just for me. I use it every day on my phone and my Mac. When I still hadn't dropped it a few months in, I figured it might help someone else too.
No. BR Tasks is for anyone whose to-do list stops working after a week.
No. BR Tasks doesn't diagnose or treat ADHD. It's a tool for everyday things, not therapy.
Yes. On your phone you can browse, add, edit and tick off tasks with no connection. AI suggestions need one.
Not yet. There's iPhone, Mac and the web.
Your tasks are personal. No ads, no selling data. The details are in the privacy policy.
No. Turn suggestions off in Settings and type everything yourself.
Join the BR Tasks beta, empty out everything that's in there and let the app pick the first thing.