📱🖇️ STUDY APPS I HAVE USED AND LIKED ⟡ ݁₊ .

── list updated as and when i use new apps . . . ( ★ = fav )

( 🔗 ) STUDY / FOCUS TIMERS

study bunny: focus timer → work alone or with friends, earn carrots and decorate your room

focus friend by hank green → weave scarfs to decorate your room, customise character

focus plant: forest phone lock → locks your apps to avoid distractions

focus traveller - flow timer ★ → work alone or with friends, calm focus app, connect apple music / spotify

( 🔗 ) ORGANISATIONAL APPS

folderly - academic organizer → create academic calendar, schedules, courses and save files + flash cards

I'm losing the ability to cover for my executive dysfunction, which means I'm forgetting my deadlines, not initiating prerequisite steps, struggling to set priorities, and wayyyyyyy overcommitting to things. My life is falling apart, I fear. I'm drowning in a tar pit of hundreds of action steps I ought to be doing.

But I know I'm far from alone in executive functioning struggles, so I wanted to see if anybody had any program or app recommendations!

I know what kind of organization system I need, but I haven't found a platform I can build this on.

Here's what I'm looking for. (I know I probably can't get everything I want, but if anybody knows of something that hits even some of these criteria, it would be amazing.)

Task and subtask organization:

I want the ability to create...

Goals/main tasks with deadlines

Action steps/subtasks with deadlines, and link those to the main goals so they're nested underneath

I want the ability to view goals and tasks multiple ways:

Goals with subtasks nested underneath (subtasks for all goals visible at once)

Goals with subtasks hidden

By due date of all subtasks (regardless of which goal they're linked to)

Explanation—

I love it when you can add subtasks to break things down into actionable steps. On Slack, you can even tell at a glance how many of the subtasks you've completed. That's great.

The problem is, you have to open up each of those tasks to see when the due dates for subtasks are. In the screenshot above, it looks like there's plenty of time before Example main goal 2 is due.

But that goal has a subtask that's due tomorrow. And you can't tell that unless you actually open it up.

I keep forgetting to start prerequisite steps because those subtasks are hidden, which means I blow my main deadline.

I could make those subtasks be main tasks, but then everything is messy and not linked to the goal/reason I'm doing it. My brain is mashed spaghetti. I cannot remember that those subtask deadlines exist if I have to open up a second page to see them.

So I'd love a tracker where I could nest subtasks under a main task, but be able to pull up another view where I can see a to-do list of all those subtasks. Or something that will accomplish that purpose.

Access

Ideally, I'd like something that's a website and an app that sync. That way, I can have it open on my phone and my laptop.

Also, notifications would be great!

If it can sync to Google Calendar, that would also be nice, but that one is highly negotiable.

Focus area separation

I would like to be able to link tasks to a focus area—Job 1, Job 2, home upkeep, writing, freelancing, volunteer work, church, friends, personal care, etc. See, I keep committing to things while forgetting about every single other thing I'm doing. So I need one system to balance it all, but the ability to separate things out.

I'm thinking some sort of tagging system so I can choose whether I see everything, or just the tasks associated with a certain focus area.

(So, if I go to work at Job 1, I can toggle the tags to only show tasks or Job 1. But when I'm checking if I'm available to take on a special extra task for Job 1, I can toggle everything on to see what other deadlines I have elsewhere in life.)

Other

I don't want GenAI. I'm willing to tolerate/ignore its presence if it's a side thing and not the main point of the app. I need organization, not for a machine to do my thinking for me.

If there's any sort of points system for accomplishing tasks, that'll help. But that's my lowest priority. I just need to get my head on straight, man.

자주 이만큼 집중 시간이 없어서 오늘 너무 행복했습니다 ☺️ i don't usually have this much time to focus, so i was very happy today ☺️

🍎 breakfast

🧘‍♀️ meditation

🦵 physiotherapy exercises

✒️ wrote 2.5k words for my sci-fi novel!

🥡 had some cousins over for lunch

📚 read Rogue Protocol

🇯🇵 japanese lesson

🎧 cleaning x The Screenwriting Life podcast

✒️ wrote 1.5k words for my sci-fi novel!

🍓 dinner