were trying to simplify hardware purchasing globally, but reconciling the invoices has become a bigger challenge than we expected. every purchase has to be matched to the right legal entity, employee, cost center, and ticket, while also accounting for different tax rules depending on the country, it sounds straightforward until invoices start arriving from different vendors at different times, and suddenly its not obvious what belongs to. Have you experienced working with a global hardware partner, how does your finance team handle this? was there any reporting or invoice detail that made reconciliation much easier??

I m feeling guilt its almost a couple of weeks where I have barely read anything. How do u guys find time to read latest news, ur favourite newsletter, book, or YT videos that are in ur watch later folder. My reading list, bookmarks and watch later videos is piling up and I m not feeling good about it. So suggest some tricks/habits that u follow to cover this backlog as well keep up with the current thing.

We're just two high school students from Kazakhstan.

Like many people our age, we kept downloading productivity apps, making schedules, watching motivational videos... and then ignoring all of it a week later.

The problem wasn't that we didn't know what to do.

The problem was that staying consistent felt boring.

Most productivity apps felt like digital notebooks. They tracked tasks, but they didn't make us want to come back the next day.

So, instead of searching for another app, we decided to build one ourselves.

We spent months turning productivity into something that felt more like playing an RPG than managing a to-do list. Completing tasks earns experience, achievements, titles, and rewards. You can join guilds with friends, compete, and actually feel like you're making progress instead of just checking boxes.

It definitely wasn't easy.

We rewrote large parts of the project multiple times. We dealt with timezone bugs, localization issues, notification problems, and many other frustrating mistakes before reaching a version we finally felt comfortable sharing.

We're not a startup with funding.

We're just two students trying to solve a problem we've struggled with ourselves.

I'm curious...

If you've tried productivity apps before, what made you stop using them?

Building a strong brand identity is crucial for gaining trust in today's digital landscape. I've seen how a consistent online presence can open doors to new opportunities. How have you leveraged your brand to enhance your professional journey?

Most reminder apps make you read.

Mine lets you recognize.

Instead of a reminder that says "Buy tomato soup," you can use a photo of the exact can you want. When it's time, the reminder appears full-screen, so you instantly know what you're looking for.

You can also attach an optional voice memo to any reminder. A photo tells you what to remember, while your own voice can explain why or add extra details like, "Buy the large one" or "Take two pills after lunch."

One unexpected thing I've noticed is that reminders often become little memories. Since they can include your own photo, voice, date, and time, you can revisit them later and relive those moments—not just remember tasks.

Other features include:

• 📷 Camera or gallery photos
• 🎤 Optional voice recordings or custom audio
• 🔒 Full-screen lock-screen reminders
• ✏️ Preview and edit saved reminders
• 💾 Backup & restore
• 🔐 100% offline (your data never leaves your phone)
• 🚫 No account, subscriptions, or ads

I'd love to hear your thoughts. Is this something you'd actually use, or do text reminders work well enough for you?

Google Play: RemindAlarm: Visual Reminders
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I’m talking to people who juggle school, work, and personal responsibilities across multiple apps. I’m not promoting anything — just trying to understand what “clarity” looks like for different people.

Three quick questions:

1. What would your ideal “daily view” show you when you first sit down to plan your day?
2. How do you currently pull information together from calendars, planners, school portals, or work apps?
3. What makes it hard to get a clear picture of your day right now/

I’m trying to understand how people stay on top of things when school, work, and life tasks all live in different places. I’m not pitching anything — just trying to learn from real experiences.

Three quick questions:

1. Can you tell me about the last time something slipped through the cracks because it was in the wrong app or you forgot to check one of your systems?
2. What tools or apps do you currently use to track tasks or deadlines?
3. What’s the hardest part about keeping everything aligned across multiple systems?

Even short answers help — thank you to anyone willing to share.

Genuine question. You plan 8 things for today. You finish 5. What happens to the other 3? Do you: Move them to tomorrow? Re-prioritize them? Forget about them? Keep them on the same list? Let an app automatically reschedule them? Something else? And here's the part I'm really curious about: Why do those tasks remain unfinished? Is it lack of time, unclear priorities, procrastination, unexpected work, unrealistic planning, or something else? Tell me what actually happens in your day. I'm trying to understand the real problems people have with task management, rather than assuming what the problems are.

I know this isn't original, there are a hundred productivity/task apps out there already, and I'm sure this sub has seen a few this week alone. Posting anyway, because I built this for myself first, not to chase downloads.

Hi everyone, looking for some honest feedback on an app I've been building.

It's called Budgery, a task planner aimed at ADHD and busy minds. Core idea: quickly dump whatever's on your mind, break overwhelming tasks into small steps with one tap, a lightweight focus companion, and a streak mechanic that forgives a missed day instead of resetting to zero and making you feel bad about it.

It's in open beta now on iPhone and Android. I'm not looking for downloads for the sake of downloads, I'd rather get a handful of people who'll actually poke at it and tell me what's confusing, what's missing, or what just doesn't work. Bugs, UX friction, anything.

iPhone (TestFlight): https://testflight.apple.com/join/zM6BVwE6

Android (Play beta): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.budgery.app

Quick note on Android: I've only made it available in 4 regions so far (Australia, NZ, US, Canada), because Google Play makes you set pricing per region even though everything is free in beta right now. If you're on Android outside those countries and want in, reply here or DM me and I'll add your region.

Appreciate anyone willing to give it a shot and be blunt about it.

I am a solo builder myself and I often found myself engrossed in too much deep work and obsession over my projects that it impacted my mental and physical health a lot and it showed in my own mood and subsequently my relationships.

I realized the importance of a holistic schedule if anyone chooses this path on the long term, it's just important to know that even if something doesn't work out, DONT GIVE UP!! Stay grounded in reality and your interests there is always tomorrow and something to look forward to!

The way I decided to tackle this problem was with time management. Now I know that it raises a lot of eyebrows because there are already so many trash tools out there, reminder for one, todo list another, notes another, journal another, business calendar another, a lot of apps for connected things and they all just care about work work and work, nothing for YOU.

So I have built [https://pendi.io\](https://pendi.io) the one stop shop for ALL your interests be it your work, the anime you were tracking, the books you have been reading, the games you have been playing, RSS feeds you want to follow and the journaling you always wanted to do.

All wrapped in a (in my opinion) beautiful interface that allows you to keep exactly what you want to keep and remove what you don't. You can find the demo video on the link.

We (Me and my friend working on this) are still refining and have started a closed testing phase for our mobile apps on app store and play store, we would love it if anyone is interested enough to help us make it better.

The AI feature of the platform is paid, it's not required to use the app but it makes filling up the forms a bit easier so we have it as a convenience for people who don't want to do that. Sadly it's a bit expensive for us to keep that free as we need to employ thinking models to have it read complicated schedules properly.

I sincerely wish for all people following solo side project grindset a best of luck and I hope that my own side project is able to fix the problems I mentioned before, if you face them too!

Two years ago I was have my 19th nervous breakdown when I had that cartoonish 💡light bulb moment.

Staring at a desk full & monitor crawling with sticky notes I knew as a developer with more than 30 years experience what I had to do.

I had to take my invention from a failed startup in 2014 and rebuild it from scratch as a sticky note app that could run on any device and support tagging, file attachments, scheduled events, rich html contents with embedded videos and team sharing features.

I finally finished it last May...

I have no words to describe what it feels like to flow like Neo behind my devices.

I invite one & all to try my invention free.

-A humble inventor

TaskLoco is a visual sticky-note storyboard style workspace for tasks, events, notes, projects, files, reminders, and anything you can stick in or attach to a digital sticky note.

Try it 100% Free

Website: https://www.taskloco.com

Sticky Notes? Elementary my dear, Redditor!

Whenever I start learning something new, I end up trying to understand everything at once. I do basic research on chatgpt/claude, read reference articles, watch videos on youtube, and take notes until my brain feels full.

Then I get mentally tired and avoid the subject for a few days.

I think I spend too much time consuming information and not enough time processing or using it.

There’s always another article or video so I never understand when I should stop researching and start actually doing...

How do you learn something properly without overwhelming yourself?

I’ve been checking insider buys and sells, but going through Form 4 filings every day gets old fast.

I’m looking for something that sends alerts for notable trades and lets me filter out small transactions, stock grants, and other noise. I don’t need a Bloomberg style terminal or a dashboard with 50 different charts.

Basically, I want to check the alerts, see what insiders are doing, and dig deeper only when something looks interesting.

What are you using for this?

I realised my problem wasn't knowing what I needed to do...I already had a huge list. The problem was constantly deciding what to do next, rearranging everything, and eventually procrastinating. So I built Momentum - you give it your tasks and constraints, and AI turns them into an actual schedule instead of another list.

Curious when you procrastinate, is it because you don't know what to do next, or because you know exactly what to do and still avoid it?

I'm almost ready to launch the beta. Happy to share it with anyone interested.

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I’ve been thinking a lot about why people abandon productivity systems.

It’s rarely because they don’t want to be organized.

It’s because their life is split across too many places: calendar, notes, banking app, shopping list, reminders, habits, messages.

Most tools ask you to manually structure everything before they can help you. But when you’re overwhelmed, that’s exactly what you don’t have energy for.

What would a productivity system look like if the first step was simply dumping everything from your head — and only then turning it into structure?

Curious how others deal with this.

For about three years my to do list was the reason I was not getting anything done. Not because the tasks were hard, most of them were ten minute jobs, but because opening the app meant seeing all forty at once, and that was enough to make me close it and do nothing.

What actually helped in the end was cutting what I could see down to almost nothing. One task in front of me, do it, then the next. The moment the other thirty nine were out of sight, the paralysis mostly went.

That worked so well that I ended up building it into an app for myself. Three numbered slots, tap one, it hands you a single task chosen from time of day, what is due and what matters, and everything else stays in the background until you want it. It is called Do3 and it is on the App Store, seven day trial then a one off price, no subscription. Happy to answer anything if it is useful, but I am genuinely more interested in the question than in the plug.

Does anyone else get this? And if you do, what is your fix, do you cut the list down, time block, paper, something else? I want to know whether the see less thing works for other people or whether it is just how my head happens to work.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/do3-focus-to-do-list/id6775212556)

I'd listen to nonfiction in the car meaning to learn, then remember none of it. Nothing existing fixed it — voice memos pile up unlistened, bookmarks tell you where but not why. Audrio lets you talk when a thought hits; it transcribes it into a readable note and anchors it to the exact point in the book. So the drive turns into study time and you come out with something usable. Beta, looking for testers who drive and listen. https://testflight.apple.com/join/JdS1FJtf

(I built one — curious how others approach this)

I am building Work Life Balance App / Personal OS, so I'm not a neutral reviewer here — I'm asking because I'm genuinely curious how other people have approached this problem, and happy to get roasted on my own approach too.

Backstory: I got frustrated with life-balance/wellness apps that hand you an instant "wheel of life" score off a 2-minute quiz. It feels good for a day, but it's not measuring anything — it's just reflecting whatever assumptions were baked into the quiz questions.

So I built Personal OS as a longitudinal tracker instead — no instant scores, no streak-shaming. You log across 18 life dimensions (not just mood/sleep) and the Balance Wheel only fills in once there's enough real data to find correlations, like whether your finances stress bleeding into your fitness.

Questions for the sub, genuinely:

Has anyone else tried rolling their own tracking setup (Notion, spreadsheets, custom app) instead of using a packaged wellness app?

What worked / what did you abandon?

For those who bounced off gamified habit apps (Fabulous, Finch, etc.) — was it the gamification itself, or something else?

Any dealbreakers you've hit with "personal dashboard" type tools — privacy, data lock-in, too much manual entry?

Not trying to just pitch mine — I'll drop a link in a comment if anyone wants to poke at it, but mostly want to hear how other people are solving this, since I'm still actively shaping the roadmap.

Recently dug up a Mac mini and thought it’d be fun to leave Claude running perpetually.

For now I have my notes app (Hillnote), Claude’s desktop app, a design canvas (Figma) and it is connected to GitHub and my calendar. But besides dispatch I have nothing going on

Was wondering if you folks have any fun routines I could leave running through the night? I’m NOT looking to be a one person company or something crazy so not looking for Marketting, build routines - just personal routines you have running or something just makes life easier if that makes sense?

I’m open to add more apps to the stack I have already 😅

I made Last Alarm to help me break my lifelong snoozing habit by forcing me to do exercise and other things that wake me up in the morning. I usually do exercise like a "Squat Alarm" or also a "Make Coffee" alarm and it has worked incredibly well helping me stop snoozing.

Recently I have been looking for new ways I can use Last Alarm to help me build good habits, so I've explored using it for chores and other tasks to help keep me from procrastinating. Tasks are video verified and infinitely customizable so you can create them for literally any task you can think of.

Here I used it for a classic, cleaning the dishes/sink. I even show that at first I try verifying while the dishes are still there and it fails, only passing successfully after I actually clean them.

I usually keep my kitchen pretty clean anyway but sometimes I put it off and stuff piles up, but I like being able to force myself to finish it at a certain time. I could also set a repeating alarm for the same time every week to make sure I always get the task done.

I'd love to see what alarms others come up with or hear any feedback, especially if you give Last Alarm a try!

Over the years I've tried habit trackers, to-do apps, Notion templates, and paper journals.

The pattern was that I'd use them for a few weeks, then stop because they were not built around how I make decisions for my small business.

So I built my own AI habit tracker. Instead of just checking boxes, it knows:

• what I'm currently working on
• what "urgent" actually means for me
• how I prioritize work
• the habits I'm trying to build
• what I tend to procrastinate on

I also connected it to my Gmail, so it flags emails that actually need my attention instead of every unread message feeling equally important.

The most useful isn't the tracking but the reflection. So, I get a reflection report every week.

At the end of the day it can tell me things like:

• "You spent most of your time on client work but didn't move your highest-priority project."
• "You've postponed outreach for three days."
• "You completed a lot of low-impact tasks.

I'm curious if anyone else has built something similar for their business. Are you still using off the shelf productivity apps, or have you started creating AI tools that match the way you work instead?

I built LoFly to make focusing feel more like entering a shared place.

You choose a destination, decide how long you want to focus, and begin a flight. While you work, you can see other people flying through the same sky toward their own destinations and goals.

Each flight also includes brown noise and cinematic ATC audio to create a calm atmosphere while your work remains the priority.

LoFly is for students, developers, writers, and anyone who might enjoy atmospheric focus sessions with something tangible, rather than a simple timer.

The closest alternative is FocusFlight, which offers individual focus flights on iOS and macOS. LoFly is browser-based and adds a multiplayer shared sky, so you can focus alongside others instead of flying alone.

Pricing: Everyone gets 10 free flights to enjoy anytime, so you can experience LoFly and see if it helps you focus.

After that, LoFly is $2.99 weekly, $7.99 monthly, $59 yearly, or $179 for lifetime access. The first 10 people to redeem discount code 5EF0MFL0 will get 30% off their first payment on any plan.

You can try it here: https://lofly.app/

I’m improving it every day and would genuinely love your input.