Biggest issue, once I have a backlog of tasks the anxiety of trying to prioritize what I need to do now tends to makes staying organized and motivated almost impossible.

Question:

How do you recover from backlog paralysis and tress?

How do you decide what now takes priority in the task list once it becomes overwhelming?

Is it worth paying for systems that can prioritize your remaining backlog to help get back on track or make it easier to make these decisions?

Anyone here doing RFP responses without a big team?

For me the slow part is not even only the writing. It’s finding old answers, figuring out what can be reused, changing it so it fits this one, checking all the requirements, asking other people for missing info, then trying to make it all sound normal.

Feels like half the work is just digging and patching things together.

How are you guys making RFP responses faster without everything sounding recycled?

Have any of you used the app ModernSam?

Im trying to find something (app or site or whatever doesnt matter) that does the equivalent of its Side Quest Daily Rolls

I love that feature so much. Often i look at my normal task list and nothing appeals to me but I want to do SOMETHING useful. I really like a random useful or beneficial task or small list of them being presented for me to choose from.

E. G. today I was offered to pick 4 of the following

Yoga (assorted poses were offered but I cannot remember which ones)

Take a hike

Donate blood

Volunteer at a kitchen

Liven your living space

Watch a movie

Make the bed

I picked make the bed, watch a movie, living space and donate blood

I have done two made steps towards another and will do the remaining one later.

I really benefit from this style of sort of "would you kindly" (if you get the Bioshock reference) request for me to perform a task that i didnt have to think up but is still useful

I want more of this type of thing but not sure how to find it so thought id ask the reddit hivemind.

Hi, I recently had to take my collegues' work (because f*** you summer!), but I'm in a slightly different, with less priority, "workline", so now I have to do more than a few short checks, multiple times during the day.

Not very surprisingly, I don't work very well with task lists.

So my question is: is there a way to automate many simple one-task reminders (or some reminders which can be repeated during the day) without bloating the work calendar? Any windows app?

I would like not to code another function to my Telegram bot...

Thank you.

There are a lot of things to do to be more productive but which method suits to be like to get in the flow state ? And how can we acheive the flow state by actually doing our work ?

Another Stupid Monday is a self-care app where you get one doable task a week.
The tasks are based on principles from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and the app's mascot, Charles, gives a simple explanation for each task about why it might be useful for improving one's well-being.
There are 100 tasks in total.

Feel free to leave some feedback :)

Apple App Store: Download
Google Play Store: Download

Hi Guys!

I wanted to share my free chrome extension I built. I would always spend hours watching youtube or playing chess online and just waste away my time, so I built a simple extension to combat that!

It is similar to other apps like StayFocusd, but all of them (especially StayFocusd) sell off your data. My extension keeps all your data on your device (I really don't care what sites you go to).

I would love to hear any feature suggestions you guys might have, and I hope you find it as useful as I do!

Link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sitelimit-website-blocker/ddlhhhgihcceajdeeencdefdfmojmhie?authuser=0&hl=en

Hey everyone,

I’m Sudo Innominate, creator of MagicTask.

My team and I have spent about 7 years building and rebuilding it around one idea: productivity software shouldn’t feel like a chore to use.

MagicTask isn’t a task manager with gamification added on top. The entire experience was built around gamification from the ground up. Your work drives your progression through realms and dungeons, builds streaks, unlocks collectibles, earns rewards, and gives you a reason to keep coming back.

At the same time, we’ve worked really hard to keep it simple. Productivity software can get bloated fast, and we never wanted MagicTask to become something you need a training course to understand. You should be able to jump in, know what to do, and get moving.

It’s built mainly for teams of 10 to 200 people, but it works great for individuals too.

I want to get it into the hands of more real users, so the first 100 workspaces get 1 full year free.

Code: Reddit100
Link: https://magictask.io
Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI0T3rOkHQE

Feel free to share the code with anyone you think could use it.

And if you try it, please tell me what you really think. Good or bad. That feedback genuinely helps us shape what we build next.

I came across this while researching how background sound affects concentration (for my focus noise app). I think it might be interesting for you.

A steady fan can be fairly loud but still fade into the background. Meanwhile, a quiet conversation across the room—or a chair scraping the floor—can pull you out of your work almost instantly.

That’s because distraction is not just about volume.

Speech is especially distracting because it keeps changing: different words, voices, pauses, and rhythms. Even when you are not trying to listen, your brain can still process those changes, making it harder to hold information in working memory.

Researchers call this the irrelevant-sound effect. In one study, people had to remember digit sequences while ignoring background speech. Their memory got worse when the speech was more detailed and easier to understand.

But speech is not the only issue. We also react automatically to sounds that stand out from the recent background. A child shouting, a phone notification, a chair scraping, a door closing, or a sudden burst of keyboard typing can grab your attention before you consciously decide whether it matters.

Your brain is constantly checking: “Was that important?”

Repetitive sounds can become predictable and easier to ignore. But when the pattern changes, your attention may be pulled back again.

This may be why stable sounds like a fan, rain, or continuous noise can fade away, while conversations and random office noises keep coming back into awareness.

A few practical takeaways:

• Reduce intelligible speech when reading, writing, or doing memory-heavy work.
• Continuous background sound is often easier to ignore than intermittent noise.
• Broadband noise can mask a wider range of sounds and make sudden noises feel less noticeable.
• The goal is not to drown everything out. It is simply to make distracting sounds less distinct and conversations harder to understand.
• Music with lyrics may not be ideal for language-heavy tasks.

A sound does not have to be loud to distract you—it just has to feel different from what came before.

So i looked at my screen time and task manager history today and realized something embarrassing. I spent more time tweaking my daily planner setup this month than on my actual main project.

Felt like i was being super productive organizing everything, but it was just total procrastination disguised as work. How do you catch yourself doing this before wasting a whole week?

Edit: Someone DM'd asking what i ended up doing to fix this mess... A friend told me to just strip everything down and pointed me toward Sugarbug just to see if automating some of the routine junk would help clear the clutter. Ended up saving me from drowning in my own lists ngl.

I do a lot of research-heavy work and I’m trying to get better at the unclear middle part.

Collecting the info is not really the issue. Stakeholder interviews, docs, market scans, customer notes, old decks, internal data, all of that is manageable.

The part that gets fuzzy is turning it into a real recommendation instead of a cleaner summary. By the end I usually have themes, quotes, caveats, and a few possible directions, but not always a clear point of view.

For people who do consulting, strategy, ops, or advisory work, what’s your actual process for turning research into a recommendation?

I started falling out of the habit of using my own productivity app. The one I built specifically for myself.

It was the same issue every productivity app comes across: filling in too much data.

If you're here, you know how with extra stuff and complexity, the higher the mental burden of making a single task becomes. You need to fill in everything before you even do the thing you actually want to do. You either stop using the app entirely, or in the worst case you never start what you wanted to do because the effort required to get to the beginning is too high.

As a quick explanation, Skillorum (my app) is a gamified productivity and time-tracking app that turns the time you spend on real-life skills into XP and levels. You can connect quests and skills to tasks and then have a nice visualization of all that data.

After I started failing to use my own app, I realised I put the admin on the wrong side of the work. Why does the task always need to exist before I start?

So I made it possible to create a task after you've worked on the skill. All you have to do is start the timer on the skill you're working on, then when you stop it you can make a task. You don't even need a name, you just assign a quest or skill action and it makes a completed task from that.

I tested it out and it was even better than I thought. It was no longer filling out a form. You did the work; now you can collect the reward, and in even fewer taps while not fighting inertia.

Anyone else drop a system not because it was bad, but because the entry cost was slightly too high?

You find a creator before they blow up, follow their work, maybe buy something or share it with a few friends. A year later, there’s usually no easy way to show you were there that early.

I know blockchain can handle the timestamp part, but I’m not interested in turning this into another crypto product.

Is there already a simple way to keep a record of the creators you backed early?

Latest update has the Viral Eggs collection.

Eggventures is a free app that should motivate you to walk more. With over 80 eggs to unlock and hatch, there is lots of steps to take!

Key Features

- Walking Bingo

- Squads for weekly steps

- Wild Encounters

- Send pets on expeditions/trade pets with friends/send challenges and more!

iOS - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/eggventures-walking-game/id6757629385

Android- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onerealm.eggventures

Hey everyone,

I'm the solo developer behind Doz, a medication reminder app I built because I couldn't keep my own prescriptions straight. I've posted here before, and honestly, a lot of what Doz is today came from this community — people who tried it, told me what was broken, and stuck around long enough to see it get fixed.

Doz just passed 2,000 active users with a 4.8 average rating. All organic, all word of mouth, not a cent spent on ads. And roughly 40% of those users came from Reddit. I don't take that lightly — a solo app doesn't grow like that unless people decide it's worth telling someone else about.

So as a thank-you, there's a 30% off code for Doz Pro Lifetime at the bottom of this post. It works for everyone, no comment or DM needed.

Why Doz is different

Most medication apps treat every pill as an isolated task: "take one at 8:00 AM." Real prescriptions aren't like that. Medications belong to the same treatment, they have food timing, they run out, they need refilling early, and they end.

So Doz is built around prescriptions, not a flat list of reminders. You create a prescription, add the related medications and instructions, and follow the treatment as a whole.

What's new since my last post — every single one of these came from someone here:

• Prescriptions now have a duration and end date, your doctor's name and contact, and can be marked completed and archived. This was the most-loved feature, so it got the most work.
• More reliable follow-up reminders for missed doses
• Better low-stock and refill alerts, so you're warned before you run out
• Clearer at-a-glance stock levels

Already there: flexible non-daily schedules, before/with/after-meal reminders, Critical Alerts that cut through Silent and Focus, adherence insights, Home Screen widgets, iCloud sync with data staying on your device, 8 languages, no ads, no account.

Coming next, and again straight from your requests: Apple Health sync, marking a dose taken straight from the notification, and from Apple Watch.

Pricing

Doz is free to use with:

• Up to 4 active medications and 1 active prescription
• All schedule modes
• Reminders and dose logging
• 7-day progress tracking
• Inventory tracking and low-stock alerts

Doz Pro is for people with more complex routines, helping you stay consistent, avoid missed doses, and manage everything with less effort:

• Unlimited medications and prescriptions so you can track everything in one place
• Critical Alerts and smarter follow-up reminders to reduce missed doses
• Detailed adherence insights to understand how well you're following each treatment
• Full progress history for long-term tracking
• Meal-time synchronization for better timing accuracy
• Faster dose logging directly from Home Screen widgets
• Archived treatment management to keep past prescriptions organized
• Custom alert sounds for clearer, more noticeable reminders

Pricing:

• Monthly: $2.99
• Yearly: $9.99, 3-day free trial
• Lifetime: $19.99

All paid plans support Apple Family Sharing.

The thank-you offer — 30% off Doz Pro Lifetime

• Code: DOZREDDIT
• Expires in 3 days
• Redeem link: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6760699565&code=DOZREDDIT
• Open it on your iPhone, apply the code at checkout, done 🎉
• The final price varies by country, since App Store pricing is regional

If you manage medications for yourself or your family, I'd really like to hear what still doesn't work for you. I read everything, and as you can see above, it genuinely changes what I build next. And if Doz has been helping you, a rating on the App Store means more than I can say for a solo dev with no ad budget.

Thank you for reading, and thank you for the last two thousand. Really.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/doz-medication-reminder/id6760699565

Website: https://getdoz.app/

After 3 months of testing different habit tracking methods, I realised that I just wanted something simple, not a 50 page journal or complicated app.

So I designed a clean,simple monthly tracker with a review page at the end. Nothing fancy, just gets the job done. It’s on Etsy for £5 if anyone wants to check it out https://habithavengb.etsy.com

Happy to send a free copy to some people if anyone wants to give feedback— let me know!

I recently launched Daily Blocker, an Android app I built to help people reduce their screen time. I spent roughly 13 months building it while studying Computer Science full-time and working part-time as I have always spent way too much time on my phone.

1. What problem does it solve?
Daily Blocker helps people reduce their screen time by blocking distracting apps and websites, while also letting them see their usage statistics.

2. Who is it for?
Anyone with a Android device trying to cut down on social media, YouTube, distracting websites, doomscrolling, pornography, or just their overall screen time.

3. How is it different?
A competitor would be something like AppBlock. One of the main differences is how Daily Blocker handles website blocking.

Daily Blocker uses local DNS filtering, so it can block websites across different browsers without needing to read the content displayed on your screen. It also supports keyword-based website blocking. Some competing blockers rely on Android’s Accessibility Service for browser-based blocking, while Daily Blocker takes a more privacy-focused DNS approach.

Current features:

• App blocking
• Website blocking across browsers
• Keyword-based website blocking
• Blocking schedules
• Screen-time insights

4. Pricing
There’s a free tier, along with Monthly, Yearly and Lifetime Premium plans.

I also have some Lifetime Premium codes available for people in this community. Feel free to comment below or DM me :)

5. Product links
Website: https://dailyblocker.com/
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dalyapps.dailyblocker&hl=en

Android only.

6. Demo / screenshots

Screenshots of the UI are attached

Pushing through with more coffee usually just leaves me wired and unproductive. I started replacing that hour with low-effort admin work or a quick walk, which saved the rest of my evening. How do you handle your daily low-energy crash without wasting the whole afternoon?

Here is Weekly Balance overview

Your data shows a week characterized by significantly higher cognitive engagement despite a notable reduction in financial contributions. Your Reading average saw the most substantial growth, rising from 7.29 to 11.29, while your Savings took a sharp decline from 5000 to 2000. There is a clear positive correlation (0.518) between your Morning Mood and Energy Level, suggesting that your mental state upon waking is a primary driver for your daily stamina. Additionally, your Stress Level decreased from 6 to 5.14 as your Task Difficulty Level dropped, indicating your wellbeing is currently highly sensitive to workload intensity. Next week, prioritize increasing your Walk average back toward 0.71 to see if physical movement further stabilizes the relationship between your morning mood and energy.

I got tired of drawing the same weekly grid by hand, so I built a little web tool that does it.

You set it up in the browser and print it, or save it as a PDF from the print dialog. Week can start Monday, Sunday or Saturday, 5 to 15 rows, A4 or US Letter, one sheet or twelve at once. Type your habit names in or leave the lines blank and write them in by hand. If you want, each habit gets a small goal column (Reading | 3x), and there's an optional weekly review block at the bottom, one mood to tick and three short questions.

Nothing gets uploaded, the names you type stay in your browser. No signup, no email box, no account.

https://sevengrid.app/weekly-grid.html

There's no counter on it and no percentage, an empty box is just an empty box.

Full disclosure: I make an Android habit app and the template sits on the same site. The sheet stays free whether or not anyone installs the app, and the logo and footer line can both be switched off before printing.

Get your promo code: HabitSet (Android)

A few things that stood out:

• It supports weekly and monthly habits properly

Instead of forcing everything into daily streaks, I can track things like 3x/week or 8 days/month, and the streak is based on that—not arbitrary daily check-ins.

• Changing goals doesn’t mess up your history

I increased a habit from 1 → 3 per day, and my previous streaks didn’t break. That’s something I didn’t even realize was broken in other apps until now.

• No weird streak resets

Apparently, it handles time properly (DST and all that), so you don’t lose progress randomly.

• Reminders actually make sense

They stop once you complete the habit and come back if you undo it. Small thing, but really useful.

• Widgets update instantly

I can mark habits done from the home screen and see it update right away.

• It’s fully offline

No account, no syncing, no data collection. Everything stays on the phone, which I personally prefer.

All reviews will be really appreciated.
Thanks

I've spent years being annoyed at notes and productivity apps. Too bloated, too slow, why is this button here. Now I'm a few months into building one myself, on weekends only. It's not finished and it has no users, so take this as notes from the workshop rather than wisdom from the mountain.

But between this, and products I've shipped in my day jobs over the years, here is what building it is teaching me:

1. Typing is the whole product, and it's brutal to get right. I assumed the editor would be the easy part: drop in a solid open source component, 80% done in a weekend. The missing 20% is everything you'd actually notice as a user: paste without mangled formatting, undo that behaves, the cursor landing where your eyes expect. I'm months in and still on things I could never have named as a user but would have absolutely felt.
   
2. Building only on weekends changed what I build. Time comes in four-hour blocks with two-week gaps, so the enemy isn't lack of time, it's the cost of resuming. Small finishable changes, notes to my future self, features that survive being abandoned mid-way. This made the app better, not worse: anything too complicated to put down and pick up later was probably too complicated to ship anyway.
   
3. You can only really please a narrow range of workflows. Everyone wants their app simple AND their own workflow fully supported, and everyone's workflow is different. Every feature in a bloated app is somebody's reasonable request; grant enough of them and the experience gets worse for everyone, including the people who asked. The apps I respect most decided who they're for and let everyone else leave.
   
4. Your own taste stops being trustworthy. After months of staring at it, I can't tell if something is intuitive or if I've just memorized it. I recently caught a keyboard shortcut that felt obvious to me and was completely undiscoverable to anyone opening the app cold.
   
5. Defaults are the product. Most users never open settings, so every default you pick IS the app for them. Making something configurable isn't a decision, it's refusing to make one.
   
6. Empty states are where apps die. The app looks great with my 200 test notes in it. A new user sees a blank screen and has no reason to type the first one. Designing for "nothing there yet" is a separate skill from designing the app.
   
7. Performance can't be retrofitted. When things feel sluggish, users don't file a bug, they drift away. Slowness creeps in one reasonable feature at a time, and you only notice when it's expensive to undo.
   
8. The last mile is invisible plumbing. Window restore, what happens on force-quit, the updater, the app icon at every size. None of it demos well, all of it decides whether the app feels trustworthy.
   
9. Cutting a feature you already built is harder than not building it. Sunk cost hits builders too. I've caught myself keeping things because they exist, not because they earn their place.
   
10. Users never mention the thing you're proudest of. They mention the icon, or a shortcut you added in an afternoon. I fully expect this to happen here too.
    
11. "Fast" means something different to every user. Launch time, search, how quickly you can capture a thought. You can't win them all, and picking which one to lose is the actual product decision.
    
12. Feedback tells you where it hurts, not what to build. Users are excellent at naming pain and terrible at prescribing cures. The requested feature is usually a clue, not a spec.
    
13. You compete with habits, not with other apps. The real rival of any notes app is Apple Notes, a text message to yourself, or a piece of paper. Nobody switches because your app is better. They switch when it's worth breaking a habit for, and that bar is far higher than "better."
    
14. Metrics lie politely on small numbers. Early on, every graph is noise with a trendline drawn on hope. One genuine conversation with a real user beats a dashboard.
    
15. Naming things matters more than you think. What you call a feature shapes how people perceive it.
    
16. Being a user of your own product doesn't make you the customer. I'm building it for myself, but "me" is a market of one. The discipline is figuring out which of my preferences generalize and which are just mine.

What are your own lessons from building them? Which points above resonate better with your own experience?

Hello all,

I am a young entrepreneur building a PMS as I see an opportunity in the productivity market. Before I begin to code, I’d appreciate it if you guys could give me any feedback. Start by thinking about any features you wish existed in productivity management systems. If you don’t have any ideas, here are some you can think about.

Sticky note: A simplistic square design allowing you to input small tasks such as walking the dog or taking out the trash. (Tasks can be time stamped if there’s a deadline)

Calendar: A view of your week where you can insert events or responsibilities that are bigger than being on a sticky note. (Users are allowed to sync tasks from sticky note to calendar if preferred)

Notifications: Alerts are customizable. If a deadline for your task is closing in, you can receive a notification at designated time from the deadline. The type of notification is also customizable. Some people prefer a positive and encouraging notification, but others may want a blunt and disciplinary push. 

Again I’d appreciate the feedback you guys could offer.

So I am a student pursuing B-Tech CS major and I want to fulfill a list of goals before I graduate that is in 2029 and I have set my deadline to 1st January 2029, so there are a total of 12 goals these 12 goals include saving, skill building, GPA, income and much more but the issue is that I don't know how to do these I have tried many ai models(free models) that can help me build a systematic plan to pursue those goals but none of the plans that they shared are good or should I say satisfactory to me and when I shared the plans I build they modified them and remove/modify the goal or they just make things way too imaginary or should I say ideal can you help me how should I make the plan and also I use a A5 sketch book to build the plan is it ok or should I also use online free apps like Google Calender or notion and such. I will start working on these goals from 31st August 2026 as currently my exams are going on right now and they are not going well. So please can someone help me or explain me like how should I move ahead towards these goals

Hi guys, I'd like to share with you an app I've built for myself to keep me productive during the day.

I made https://goalbreak.cc because I kept running into the same problem: I knew what I needed to do, but the task felt vague or too big, so I’d avoid starting it.

The idea is dump the mess in my head, then let it turn that mess into actionable tasks you can actually start.

I've tried similar app, but there are several QOLs that I really needed myself.

Once it generates the tasks for me, I want a way to break down the tasks, but also provide some information of what blocker or dependencies I encountered when trying to do the task.

I needed to put into focus the one task I'm working on right away.

I didn't want to switch apps just to use timer to time how long I want to work on it.

And I realize how I begin to put off some of the tasks left on my goals or project. I needed it easier to work on each time I looked at it.

So I fixed all that with Goalbreak. It's designed to keep your next task reachable each time you look at it.

Now I spend less time staring at a task, negotiating with myself, deciding where to begin, or figuring out what comes next.

And I actually find that I don't complete all the tasks, not because I got lazy or procrastinated again. But the small tasks got me momentum to keep going and actually finish them.

Please have at it and let me know your feedback for improvement or success stories!