[riho]

This is quite interesting, I've been considering making a todo app to help with ADHD. I've definitely experienced many of the same issues mentioned by the author, and even some apps labelled specifically for ADHD seem to fail on many of these issues.

If it's a chore to add a task, I won't add them. If it's a chore to go through tasks, I won't come back to the app.

It's also a really important point about some tasks being inherently different in scale to others, and the importance of separating them.

I feel like many todo apps focus too much on being a "todo app" rather than actually trying to get you to get things done. All this tagging and categorizing and such are features that take effort and time for me to manage, which in turn help make those apps into huge graveyards of stuff to do, which in turn make me want to not open them ever again.

IMO a todo apps that is blank most of the time is the best. Meaning, you haven't got anything you need to do. Help me keep track of small tasks, and repeating tasks, and let me either complete them or postpone them. If there's something I've postponed too many times, just delete it. It shoudn't become a notes app, it's about getting stuff done.