Overview:
Picture your task list acting like a living organism. Old, ignored tasks start “decaying” and float to the top before they rot. Big, vague tasks get auto-sliced into tiny, doable bites. The app watches when you actually get things done (your real rhythm, not your ideal one), and every night it drops a sane, bite-sized focus list into Notion so tomorrow you don’t have to think—just do. It’s like a calm, neuro-friendly project manager that respects energy levels and avoids shame-y nagging. You stay in Notion; it handles prioritizing, chunking, and gentle escalation.
The Trends:
Growing employer focus on neuro-inclusion makes neuro-aware productivity tools commercially attractive. (1, 2)
The ADHD-focused apps and digital therapeutics market is expanding rapidly, validating niche product opportunities. (3, 2)
Personalized, adaptive prioritization (ML-driven ‘task recommender’ systems) is becoming feasible and desirable for individual productivity optimization. (4, 5)
Platform-first integrations (e.g., Notion API + automation) let neuro-inclusive productivity features plug into users’ existing workspaces. (6)
Cognitive strategies proven for ADHD—chunking, short timeboxes, and escalation cues—are being embedded into product UX to reduce overload and improve initiation. (7, 8)
Your Answer:
A Notion-connected prioritizer that scores every task by staleness (how long it’s been ignored), importance, and effort, then auto-escalates neglected items so nothing silently dies.
Chunks large, vague tasks into bite-sized micro-tasks and suggests focused time blocks based on your historical completion patterns to combat overwhelm and hyperfocus traps.
Learns your rhythms (when you actually complete things) and auto-generates a ‘tomorrow’s focus’ list that minimizes decision fatigue and fits realistic energy windows.
Neuro-inclusive UX: low-friction one-click actions, optional gentle escalation (reminders, visual prominence, inbox nudges), and reward-style progress feedback to keep motivation stable for ADHD brains.
MVP path: Notion template + automation + a lightweight web dashboard that reads your tasks, applies the decay score, and publishes a daily focus page — no heavy onboarding required.
Value props & monetization: reduces mental load and missed deadlines, increases trust in your task system; monetizable via freemium, paid personalization (habit learning), therapist/coach integrations, and team ADHD-support packages.
Your Roadmap:
No-code MVP: build a Notion-synced workflow using Make (formerly Integromat) or Zapier to pull tasks, compute a simple 'decay score' (age × weight + importance − recent activity), and push a prioritized 'Today' view back into Notion.
Add escalation rules: if decay score > threshold, create a high-priority tag + snooze/notify via Slack or SMS (Twilio) so neglected items surface.
Chunking: automatically split tasks with high effort estimates into subtasks (use simple heuristics: if effort > X hours → create 3 subtasks) and re-score.
Feedback loop: add a lightweight daily form (Typeform or Notion template) where user marks what they finished; use that to adjust decay weights weekly.
Ship as a template + Zap/Make recipe and short install guide you sell on Gumroad or Product Hunt.