PlanCoach, an ADHD-friendly app for starting things.
Hey everyone!
I’ve spent the past year+ building PlanCoach, an app for people who procrastinate, struggle to start tasks, or get distracted easily.
The core idea is: PlanCoach breaks something you’re avoiding into small, low-friction steps, then uses ideas like the Zeigarnik effect to help you build momentum.
But it’s more than a task splitter.
PlanCoach has different "coaches", each built around a specific method for a specific kind of problem: sleeping, exercising, eating, studying, having a difficult conversation, etc.
For example, if you have to study something painfully boring, one coach turns it into a little fantasy RPG, so you’re learning the skills needed to protect your village and eventually slay the dragon. Surprisingly effective at making boring things feel meaningful.
A lot of the design came from feedback from people with procrastination issues and ADHD.
There’s a Navigation Mode that shows only the one thing you should be doing right now in huge text, so if you get distracted halfway through a task, you don’t have to mentally reconstruct what you were doing.
You can also quickly dump distracting thoughts into an in-app capture tool while focusing, get them out of your head, and return to the task.
The important part is that these aren’t separate productivity features bolted together, they’re designed to work as one system.
I’m now releasing a pretty big update. You can schedule recurring tasks to start themselves, for example:
- Every night: read the first line of your favorite book.
- Every Friday night: spend a few minutes reviewing what you did well that week.
Because this update changes quite a lot, I’d really love some help testing it.
I’ll be checking this Reddit thread every day and replying to every piece of feedback (if any). If you find bugs or give feedback that meaningfully improves PlanCoach, I’m also happy to give out monthly, quarterly, or even lifetime memberships as a thank-you.
If this sounds useful to you, especially if you have ADHD or constantly struggle with starting things, I’d love to have you in the TestFlight.
Thanks!