Start tasks with your energy.

Most task managers assume that starting is the easy part. For many people with ADHD it is the hardest part. A long list freezes you. An hour disappears. Whatever isn't in front of you stops existing. Streaks and guilt make all of that worse.

Neuro comes from personal experience.

• Deciding what to do first is the obstacle. A tool that hands you a long list has already failed.
• Apple's own widgets can't run a live clock or a microphone. So Neuro Widget became a small Mac app that floats on the desktop.
• Resetting had to feel safe. The wins counter starts again each day, but nothing is lost, and a manual reset needs a two-second press so it can't happen by accident.

Neuro is two things today.

The Neuro app

It runs in the browser. It starts with one question: how are you feeling today? Then it asks what you're able to do, and breaks tasks into smaller pieces so you don't have to decide what comes first.

• You can speak instead of type on several screens.
• There are no streaks and no guilt. The daily check-in is optional.
• At the end of the week it shows you how your week felt.
• You can use the built-in moods or describe your own.

Neuro Widget

A small Mac app that keeps one task, one timer and your loose thoughts in view.

• Your one thing: one task on screen, with "Pick for me" when choosing is the obstacle.
• Just start: a five-minute timer and a Pomodoro flip clock.
• Brain dump: catch a thought with a shortcut or your voice, then get back to work.
• Wins in colour: finishing a task plays a colour reaction and adds to a dated wins history.

I mocked up every size and reaction of the widget before building it. I also built a version of Neuro in a time-boxed sprint at the Lovable Halloween Hackathon in October 2026.

Five people tested the Neuro app. After their feedback I added a close-out screen.

I built the widget in a day and tested it in real use that same evening. Every problem went into Linear before I fixed it: 21 issues, 18 fixed. Three are on hold on purpose. Testing changed the product:

• A wins history with a daily reset, so progress stays visible after the counter starts again.
• Finished notes are filed, not deleted.
• A break looks different from focus at a glance.

• Live with it before changing it. The three ideas on hold stay there while I use the widget every day. Then someone else tests it. Not everything that looks like a bug or a missing feature belongs in the product. A change has to be worth it for the person using it and for the product.
• Rebuild the iPhone version.
• Keep using the widget every day and decide which notifications help.
• Sign the Mac app so other people can install it.