A Practical Solution for Overthinkers

Not being figurative, beta testers needed—Register your interest today!

This is a genuine call to action:

I have made an application for overthinkers, procrastinators, scatterbrains, ADHDers and all other kinds of people who, like me, tend to find their brains tend to run faster than their bodies. I need up to 100 people to help me test this app.

The app is called Yggdrasil. It does four things:

1. Represents complex activities as recursive ‘to-do-trees’ that can nest as deeply as you need. Rather than trying to flatten the complexity of your thoughts, this method allows you to follow each strand to its logical conclusion so that you can see which big ideas are actually feasible, and only ever plan as much as you need for intuition to take over.

2. Represents repeated tasks/activities/commitments as ‘seeds’ which can generate treeNodes and calendar events according to user defined repetition rules. These commitments can each have a checklist for their standard-operating procedure, which are instantiated as child nodes in the resulting tree and are posted to the calendar of your choice!

3. Combines user-selected, due, and seeded activities in a focused agenda view that contains the most pressing concerns for you to focus on.

4. Integrates work and home calendars from Google, Outlook and iCloud/CalDAV servers into a single calendar view. Any tree node can be used to generate time blocks in the calendar, which link to the relevant branch of the tree when viewed in the app.

All of the data is stored on your local file system or cloud drive, so you own it forever.

This is the main tree. You can go down to any depth of indents you like, collapse any node, make any node the root of a new page (like your file explorer), drag-n-drop, add detailed notes. You can also set due dates, add nodes to a focused agenda, make nodes into milestones which represent something worth celebrating

These are commitments, which automatically generate a tree node for the agenda according to a given repetition rule, and can also post this to the calendar of your choice.

The agenda is a focused subset of the main tree + the additional nodes generated by the commitments

The calendar view draws in data from multiple providers, each colour in this calendar is from a different email provider (Outlook, Google, iCloud). You can turn any tree node into a calendar item, and the calendar item links back to the tree node.

As you can see, this is a fully featured app, which has already replaced my other productivity tools—that was actually my test for when this was ready to share. It is built around interoperable foundations and uses integrations with all the major providers.

If this sounds like something that could be useful for you, please fill in this google form to join the beta. The app currently works on Mac and Windows. Or at least I think it does.

There are still a few features still to be polished and some bureaucratic loops to jump through,

As such, if you sign up you should get some further correspondence from me in about 2-3 weeks detailing how you can download the beta and where to leave the feedback.

Genuinely so excited to share this with people :)