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• Hey, I'm Stan
• I'm building BrightMind, an ADHD productivity app. It connects to TickTick, your Google calendar, and has built-in AI you can chat with and call
• How I actually use it: I call it while doing chores and just ramble. It plans my days for me
• What it does right now:
  1. Today view: tasks, calendar and routines in one timeline for the day (TickTick doesn't have this view)
  2. Voice calls: talk to it like a phone call. It can also call me at a set time to plan the day
  3. Brain dump: I ramble once and each task lands in the right list with a date, so my inbox doesn't pile up
  4. Automations: it calls or messages me regularly or one off. I use it to:
     1. Make meal and workout plans
     2. Get weekly productivity reports
     3. Remind me of something important
  5. Integrations: it works with TickTick and Google Calendar
  6. Unstucking: when I'm rotting in bed, it convinces me to get out and do something, one tiny step at a time
  7. And more!
• "Perfect" is the goal, not where it is today
• It's free to try on iPhone and Android. Download: brightmind.club/download

• Hey, I'm Stan
• I'm building BrightMind, an ADHD productivity app. It has task lists, connects to your calendar, and has built-in companion you can chat with and call
• How I actually use it: I call it while doing chores and just ramble. It plans my days for me
• What it does right now:
  1. Today view: tasks, calendar and routines in one timeline for the day
  2. Voice calls: talk to it like a phone call. It can also call me at a set time to plan the day
  3. Brain dump: I ramble once and each task lands in the right list with a date, so my inbox doesn't pile up
  4. Automations: it calls or messages me regularly. I use it to:
     1. Make meal and workout plans
     2. Get weekly productivity reports
     3. Remind me of something important
  5. Integrations: it has its own task list, or works with:
     1. Todoist
     2. TickTick
     3. Google Calendar
  6. Unstucking: when I'm rotting in bed, it convinces me to get out and do something, one tiny step at a time
  7. And more!
• "Perfect" is the goal, not where it is today
• It's free to try on iPhone. Download: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adhd-ai-companion-brightmind/id6751622140

• Hey, I'm Stan
• I'm building BrightMind, an ADHD productivity app. It has task lists, connects to your calendar, and has built-in AI you can chat with and call
• How I actually use it: I call it while doing chores and just ramble. It plans my days for me
• What it does right now:
  1. Today view: tasks, calendar and routines in one timeline for the day
  2. Voice calls: talk to it like a phone call. It can also call me at a set time to plan the day
  3. Brain dump: I ramble once and each task lands in the right list with a date, so my inbox doesn't pile up
  4. Automations: it calls or messages me regularly. I use it to:
     1. Make meal and workout plans
     2. Get weekly productivity reports
     3. Remind me of something important
  5. Integrations: it has its own task list, or works with:
     1. Todoist
     2. TickTick
     3. Google Calendar
  6. Unstucking: when I'm rotting in bed, it convinces me to get out and do something, one tiny step at a time
  7. And more!
• "Perfect" is the goal, not where it is today
• It's free to try on iPhone and Android. Download: brightmind.club/download

I’ve been using BrightMind as a journal straight inside TickTick. I can voice-dictate a thought, emotion, or idea, and it gets saved as a clean timestamped entry thanks to TickTick “note” type tasks and projects.

If you’d like set up this for yourself, Paste this into BrightMind:

>Create a TickTick note project called Journal.
>
>I want you to manage it as my journal: whenever I share something personal, reflective, emotional, an idea, or something worth remembering, add it there as a timestamped note in my words. Don’t journal routine logistics, task requests, or ordinary short conversation.
>
>Add this as a working agreement so you remember it going forward.

Hey 👋 ADHD brain here. Saying it upfront: I built this app, it's called BrightMind, and this is the first time I'm posting about it here.

You know the wall. Standing in the kitchen, fully aware of the dishes, brain refusing to send the signal. For me the fix was never a better list. Lists don't talk back. What I needed in that moment was someone to say "okay, just carry one plate to the sink" and stay on the line while I did it.

So that's what I built: a companion you talk to. You say "I need to clean this room and I can't", it helps you settle, then gives you one tiny first step. Not the plan. The first two minutes. Everything else grew around that:

Capture before the thought evaporates. "Hey Siri, capture in BrightMind" from the lock screen, watch, or car. Ramble five things in one breath and each gets filed as a real task with a date. The "I'll remember it later" lie finally has a workaround.

Your day as one picture. Instead of holding today in your head, there's one timeline: tasks, habits, calendar events, and check-in calls, with the free gaps visible between them. Tap a gap, put something in it. Works on top of Todoist, TickTick, and Google Calendar if you use those, and native tasks and habits are coming for everyone else.

The overdue pile. When it grows, the app offers to sort it with you in a short conversation: do it, move it, mark it done, or let it go. Letting go is a valid option and it says so.

It checks in on you. You can have it call you. Morning planning call, evening wind down. Someone on Reddit once wrote that well-off people have assistants who remember things for them and check in every day, and asked why AI hasn't made that a thing for the rest of us. That post lived rent-free in my head while I built this.

Free to try: https://brightmind.club/download

Happy to answer anything in the comments.

Hey folks 👋 I'm Stan. ADHD brain, and for the last year I've been building BrightMind, a voice AI companion that plans your day on top of the tools you already use: Todoist or TickTick, plus Google Calendar. They stay your source of truth, BrightMind sits in front of them.

You talk, it files. Say what's on your mind, five things in one breath if that's how it comes out, and each lands in your task manager as a clean task with the right list, date, and priority. "Hey Siri, capture in BrightMind" does it from the lock screen, watch, or car.

One timeline for the whole day. The new Home screen merges timed tasks, calendar events, habits, and scheduled check-in calls into a single day view, with the free slots visible in between. Tap a slot to plan something into it. Tap a task and it helps you start, breaking it into one small first step.

It clears backlogs with you. When overdue tasks pile up, it offers to go through them: do, move, complete, or drop. My users with ADHD bring this one up the most.

It calls you. Schedule a morning planning call or an evening check-in and BrightMind rings you, walks through the day with you, and updates your lists as you talk.

It remembers how you work. Energy patterns, projects, how you like tasks organized. Tell it once, it applies everywhere.

Native tasks and habits inside BrightMind are on the way too, for people who don't run Todoist or TickTick.

Free to try: https://brightmind.club/download

Happy to answer questions in the comments.

Hey TickTick fam 👋 ADHD brain here, some of you might remember me from the ADHD setup post. I build BrightMind, a voice app that turns what you say into clean TickTick tasks. Just shipped the update I started the whole app for.

My day used to be split across apps: tasks and habits in TickTick, meetings in Google Calendar, and no single place showing the whole picture. Now my morning starts with one calm screen: today's TickTick tasks and habits, calendar events, and check-in calls on a single timeline, with the free slots visible between them.

There's nothing to build or migrate. Connect TickTick and it's all just there: your lists, your dates, your habits with their streaks. TickTick stays the source of truth. Check something off in Home and it completes in TickTick too, and every item has an "Open original" button that jumps straight back to the app.

And the whole thing is run by an AI that knows your setup:

The overdue card. When overdue tasks pile up, Home shows "There are 12 overdue items" and offers to go through them with you. You sort the pile in a short conversation: do it now, move it to a real date, mark it done, or drop it. I wrote in my setup post that a task untouched for a month is usually telling you to let it go. Now there's a button for that.

Free slots you can tap. Open stretch between two timed items? Home shows "Add task" in the gap with the start and end time filled in. You say what goes there.

"Help me start" on any task. Opens a chat that already knows the task's details and breaks it into one tiny first step.

Setup is one conversation: connect TickTick and Google Calendar, start a call, tell it how your week looks. Home itself is free, and there's free AI usage to try the rest.

It reads Google Calendar through its own connection, not calendars you've subscribed inside TickTick (their API doesn't expose those). So both connect to BrightMind directly and it merges them itself.

Full walkthrough: https://brightmind.club/docs/features/home

Get it: https://brightmind.club/download

Happy to answer questions in the comments.

I open-sourced my first agent skill: self-improve. It’s simple, and it actually works.

At the end of a session you activate it, and the agent looks back and reflects: where it stumbled, where you corrected it, where it danced through ten steps to do something that should have taken one. Then it works out what was missing and proposes a few small fixes: a rule in AGENTS md, a command, a skill edit.

That’s the whole thing. No heavy process, no big config. The agent gets a little better every time you run it, and you can watch it happen.

Works with any coding agent. One command:

npx skills add szelemeh/skills --skill self-improve

Link to the skill: https://github.com/szelemeh/skills/blob/main/skills/self-improve/SKILL.md

Hey TickTick fam 👋 ADHD brain here. Some of you saw my ADHD setup post last week. I build BrightMind, a voice app that turns what you say into clean TickTick tasks (and much more!).

The follow-up a bunch of you asked: how do I actually capture into TickTick hands-free, without touching my phone or saying "TickTick" in some weird trigger phrase. This is something I use a lot, so here's the whole thing.

The setup, one time, about 2 minutes Turn on Siri integration in BrightMind, tap to install the shortcut, paste your personal BrightMind Capture link when it asks, tap Add. It shows up on your Apple Watch automatically, no need to dig into the Shortcuts terrible UI.

Then, from your wrist:

>"Hey Siri, Brain Dump"

On the watch: Siri asks “What's the text?”, you dictate, and it confirms the task is saved.

Siri asks what to capture, you ramble, and it lands in TickTick as a real task with the right list and date. Not "only after you next open the app", just there. You also get a notification what was changed.

A few things that made it stick for me

• It reads the whole sentence. "Buy milk tomorrow and move my dentist to Friday" does both in one breath.
• It sorts task vs calendar: a to-do goes to TickTick, a timed thing goes to Google Calendar (if you set up the integration in BrightMind).
• Everything lands in one dedicated Capture chat, next time you use it, it has the context from before. So when sending follow ups it understands and does what you'd expect from a follow up text.

The capture comes back as a notification that names exactly what was added.

It's free to set up and use. Android and Wear OS capture is coming later, I know a lot of you asked, it is on my list.

Full step-by-step with screenshots: https://brightmind.club/blog/add-tasks-by-voice

Happy to answer any questions you have!

TL;DR: when my head is too loud, too many thoughts, too many priorities, I have a short list of physical resets I run instead of reaching for my phone. Nap, brain.fm, cold shower, meditation, journaling, a 7-minute Tabata, a walk. One usually does it. On a bad day I stack a few.

It's not a routine, more a list I pick from depending on how bad it is. My old default was to grab my phone to "relax," which never reset anything. These do.

The 20-minute nap I made a Siri shortcut so there's no setup. I say "Siri, Nap Time" and it runs the whole thing: 20-minute timer, an alarm, Do Not Disturb on, and it opens my Spotify sleep playlist. One sentence, then I lie down. https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/20733f72ad104af085915419a6030ccf

brain.fm I use it two ways. The focus modes when I want to come back sharp instead of sleepy. And the Destress mode under Relax, with the high neural effect on, which is especially good for the nap or just winding down. The trick that makes it work for me: actually listen to the sound instead of treating it as background. The sound is 3D, and following it is what relaxes me. https://brain.fm

Cold shower Hard to keep spiraling about anything while you're standing under cold water. Resets the body, and the head follows. Best right after the 7-minute Tabata below.

Meditation with Medito Ten minutes most days. It's free, no subscription guilt, no upsell, which is rare for these apps. https://meditofoundation.org

Journaling, when there's too much to even start If the thoughts are too loud to do any of the above, I write them down first. Out of the head and onto paper, then the rest works better.

A 7-minute Tabata Short and brutal, over before I can talk myself out of it. Clears the static better than a long workout I'd skip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmq5zZfmIws

A walk Lowest effort, I never regret it. And it counts even with a podcast in your ears or your phone in your hand. Walking while scrolling still beats sitting on the couch scrolling.

I'm not above any of this. I still reach for my phone plenty. But when I catch it and do one of these instead, it actually helps, and that's most obvious working from home, where nothing forces a break. The basics do more than they look like they should. Stacking two or three is even better.

Not affiliated with any of these. Just the tools I actually use.

Hey TickTick fam 👋 ADHD brain here. Some of you might know me from my earlier posts, I build BrightMind, a voice app that creates and organizes TickTick tasks for ADHD folks. People kept asking how would I actually set up TickTick regardless of BrightMind, so here's the whole thing.

Out of the box TickTick is just another list that fills up faster than I empty it. This is the stripped-down setup that finally stuck for my brain. Most of it is free. Screenshots of mine attached.

1. Live in Today + Inbox. Hide everything else. The all-tasks view is a guilt machine. A list of 200 old tasks isn't a to-do list, it's a freeze trigger. Set the sidebar to default to Today, keep Inbox as your dumping bucket, and collapse the rest. Open app, see 3 things, do one.

2. Capture first, organize never. The gap between a thought and a saved task is where ADHD loses everything. Quick-add + Smart Recognition does the work: type or say "call dentist tomorrow at 2pm" and it schedules itself. Don't sort on capture, just dump it in the Inbox and move on. (Honestly this gap is the whole reason I built BrightMind, but even without it, quick-add gets you most of the way.)

3. Keep tags to 3-5. Context + energy, nothing clever. An elaborate tag taxonomy is just a new way to procrastinate. Mine: #deep-work #low-energy #phone #waiting That's it. When I'm frozen I open #low-energy and pick from a short, doable list instead of staring at the whole pile. (In BrightMind I have it auto-assign one of these to every task so I never tag by hand, but four tags is little enough to do manually too.)

4. Make recurring tasks carry your memory. Every routine you automate is one your working memory stops dropping. Meds daily, water daily, weekly review every Sunday, tidy desk every weekday. The nudge I wish every app did: you add "take out the trash" and something asks "want this to repeat every Tuesday?" instead of letting it be a one-off you re-add forever. Set it once, let the app remember.

5. Priority is for ONE question: if I only do one thing today, which? If five tasks are High, none are. Flag the single must-do, ignore the rest, let Today carry the load.

6. Build one filter: "Quick Wins" (the Premium one worth it). Filter = Tag is #low-energy AND Priority is not High. On a bad day you open it and there's a short list of tiny, low-stakes tasks. Far easier to start than the backlog. The calendar view is the other genuine Premium upgrade if you think in week-at-a-glance.

The one mindset thing: treat it as a workshop, not a museum. ADHD loves the dopamine of building a pretty system and never opening it again. The boring setup you actually look at every morning beats the elaborate one you abandon by Thursday. Be ruthless with the backlog. If a task sat untouched for a month, it's usually telling you to let it go.

I wrote the long version with the copyable list/tag/filter template here: brightmind.club/blog/ticktick-for-adhd

And if you'd rather not wire all this up by hand, that's basically what BrightMind does. You say what's stuck, it breaks the overwhelm into one tiny step, turns your rambling into a clean TickTick task, tags it, drops it in the right list, and offers to make the repeating stuff recurring. There is also a smooth Siri voice capture workflow and Android quick tiles. It's like having a personal assistant who knows exactly how you like your tasks organized. If you're curious, check it out here: brightmind.club

Happy to answer any questions in the comments.