Brain dumps, voice capture, and what on-device AI changes — written by the one person who builds the app. RSS
Streaks work until they break, and for a lot of people — ADHD brains especially — the break is the whole memory. In 1.3 Stowe replaced its streak card with a run that counts days planned, best and held (never missed), a shelf of things Toki keeps, and days off. Here is the reasoning.
To-do lists fail for reasons psychologists have measured: we underestimate how long things take, intentions alone convert to action about half the time, and long lists carry a cost. The research, and what actually fixes it.
Research suggests external planning supports — written plans, if-then intentions, visible time — help with ADHD precisely because they move executive function out of the head. The studies, honestly summarized.
Task paralysis is the freeze that hits when a long list offers too many entry points and no obvious first move. What choice research actually shows — including the replication debate — and the case for one next action.
An honest evidence review of popular planning methods: if-then planning has a large research base, time management skills have trial support, body doubling is promising but early, and several famous rules are folklore.
A brain dump is emptying everything on your mind into one place, without sorting as you go. The dump is the easy half — here is the method for what comes after.
Voice to-do apps used to transcribe what you said and leave the sorting to you. On-device AI changes the job: speech becomes structured tasks without leaving the phone.
An honest comparison of three planners: Things wins on polish and one-time pricing, Structured on timeline planning, Stowe on voice-first capture with on-device AI.
Stowe transcribes your speech and structures it into a plan entirely on the iPhone, so every feature works in airplane mode. Here is the pipeline, in plain terms.
A reference table of iPhone models, their RAM, and what local AI each can run — why 8GB is the Apple Intelligence line, what changed at 12GB, and what model sizes fit in each tier.
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