If you have ADHD and things stop existing the moment they leave your line of sight, you're not imagining it 😂 People online call it "ADHD object permanence." Trying harder to remember won't fix it. Building a home where the important stuff can't
The short answer An ADHD to-do list works when it's two lists, not one. A long master list where everything goes, and a tiny today list with three to five tasks, each written as a specific action small enough to start in two minutes. Then you check
The quick answer Pick Obsidian if you enjoy building systems, want your notes as plain files on your own device, and have a track record of actually maintaining a setup. Pick Saner.AI if your notes keep dying at the "sort it" and "remember it exists"
The short answer A second brain for ADHD is one trusted place outside your head where thoughts land fast, get sorted later, and come back to you when you need them. Not a beautiful knowledge garden. A catch-all that does the remembering so your actual brain can do the
Amazing Marvin and Saner.ai both say they were built for brains like ours. They go about it in opposite ways. Marvin hands you a toolbox with a lot of drawers. Saner.ai tries to open the drawers for you. One rewards the person who likes to tinker. The other
The printer jammed. That was it. That was the whole event. And I stood in my kitchen with my heart going like I'd been told my car was on fire, composing a furious email to a printer company I have no relationship with. Ten minutes later I felt
Notion is the app you open with big plans on a Sunday night. Four hours later you have a gorgeous dashboard with a habit tracker, a reading list, a mood log and a "Life OS" header in a font you spent twenty minutes picking. By Wednesday you'
Most calendar apps assume you'll do the planning. You open them, drag some blocks around, feel organized for eleven minutes, and then a meeting lands on top of your "deep work" block and the whole thing quietly dies. Reclaim is built on the opposite assumption. You
I once skipped a shower for three days because the bathroom was cold and I couldn't find a clean towel. I spent those three days thinking about the shower roughly every forty minutes. If that sounds familiar, you're in the right place. ADHD hygiene struggles are
Tiimo and Saner.ai both promise a calmer day for ADHD brains. They get there from opposite ends. Tiimo turns your day into a picture. Colored blocks, friendly icons, a timer that shows time draining away instead of hiding it. Saner.ai turns your mess into a plan. It reads
I picked up my phone to check the weather. Forty minutes later I knew a great deal about a man in Ohio who restores vintage vending machines. I still didn't know the weather. I went outside in a T-shirt. It was raining. If you have ADHD, you
Count the places a task can hide in your life right now. Email. Slack. That Notion page. Three calendars. A sticky note. The voice memo you recorded while driving and never listened to. If you got past five, you understand why Akiflow exists. Its whole pitch is one inbox for
ADHD
Sunsama asks you a question every morning: "What are you doing today?" Saner.ai answers it before you've finished your coffee, then asks if the answer looks right. That's the whole comparison. Both apps want to give an ADHD brain a calm, realistic day.
ADHD
My alarm went off at 7:00. At 7:40 I was still in bed, reading about the mating habits of octopuses. At 8:12 I was outside the front door, holding one shoe. The other shoe was inside the house, and I was not. If your mornings look anything
ADHD
I had an insurent appointment at 3:40 on a Tuesday. One appointment. Forty minutes, tops. I got nothing done that day. Not "less than usual." Nothing. I opened my laptop at 9, looked at a draft, decided there wasn't really enough time to start it
ADHD
TickTick and Saner.ai both say they help you get things done. They go about it in opposite ways. TickTick is a good list. Fast to fill, cheap, packed with reminders, a focus timer and a habit tracker. Saner.ai is an AI assistant that reads your email, calendar and
ADHD
I've bought three gym memberships across years I used for a combined total of about five weeks. If you have ADHD, you probably have your own version of that story. Maybe it's the running shoes still in the box, or the yoga app that sends you
ADHD
Last month, I walked into the kitchen to get a glass of water, came out with a banana, and only remembered the water when I was thirsty again an hour later. Same week, I put my car keys in the fridge. Impressed. If that sounds like your day, this post
Comparison
I've lost more tasks to Todoist than to any other app. I lost them there because I trusted it enough to put them there, and then I didn't open it for nine days. That's the whole Saner.ai vs Todoist question in one sentence.
ADHD
You sat down to fix one formula in a spreadsheet. You looked up and it was dark outside, you had not eaten, and the spreadsheet now had color-coded tabs nobody asked for. Meanwhile the email you actually needed to send is still sitting in drafts. That's ADHD
Comparison
Same dream, two apps. The dream: you stop deciding what to do next, and an AI decides for you. For an ADHD brain that spends half its morning negotiating with a to-do list, that pitch is so relevant They get there in very different ways. Motion is a scheduling
Reviews
I've used Todoist for quite a long time. That's a compliment and a warning. Todoist is very good at holding tasks. It is much worse at making an ADHD brain look at them. This review covers what changed recently (a price increase and a voice feature
alternatives
Sunsama is a good planner. I said so in my Sunsama review for ADHD, and I still mean it. But it costs real money every month, it has no free plan, and the whole thing runs on a daily planning ritual. Rituals are exactly the thing ADHD brains drop first
Reviews
I have a complicated relationship with planner apps. I download them with the energy of a man buying running shoes in January, and I abandon them about as fast. Structured is one of the few that stuck around on my home screen for quite a few weeks. This is a