1 pointby gbessoni5 hours ago3 comments
  • PaulHoule5 hours ago
    When I am finding tasks hard to complete I fall back to paper lists. These are privileged relative to all the things that live on a screen and compete with all the things I need to deal with to get the tasks done that... also live on a screen.
    • gbessoni5 hours ago
      Paper works because it's single-channel. No notifications, no tabs, no competing inputs. BrainDump is built on that same principle. You see one card. Not a list. Not a dashboard. One task, full screen. The only difference is the input is your voice instead of a pen, which matters when the executive function barrier is the act of writing things down in the first place.
  • snowhale4 hours ago
    apothegm has it right. the deeper issue is that opening a task app IS a context switch, which is friction at the exact moment you're trying to overcome friction. paper works because you don't have to navigate anything -- you just look at it. voice capture helps for the same reason but you still have to open the app to do anything with the output.
  • apothegm5 hours ago
    Because task initiation has very little to do with tracking tasks. It’s far more internal than external, and apps can’t really fix that.