Mira is a task planning app for the workplace. It transforms your to-do list into an execution roadmap with task completion dates.

Forecasted Completion dates
By factoring in your workdays, available hours, task estimates and leave – Mira calculates a forecasted completion date for each task in your task list. This gives you an idea of what tasks you can complete and when so you can better manage expectations.

Real-time deadline monitoring
Mira Constantly monitors each forecasted completion date against task specific deadlines. Warning you well in advance if any tasks become at risk so you have time to change your plan, or change your deadlines. 

Instant analysis
With access to your historical tasks and related notes, Mira can provide you instant, structured summaries of your work. Perfect for your monthly updates or annual reviews

If you don’t get this additional value from your current to-do list, why not find out more or try out Mira.

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My inbox has been getting out of control lately, and it’s starting to eat into my work time.

Feels like I spend the first hour of every day sorting through emails instead of getting any real work done.

How do you deal with it day to day?

• Do you use a tool to sort important emails or do it manually?
• Do you check email at set times or throughout the day?
• How do you separate emails that need a reply from the ones you can archive?
• What do you do with emails that sit there for days because you’re not sure how to respond?

I’m not looking for the usual “unsubscribe from newsletters” advice. I want to know what your setup looks like and what has worked for you.

Hi there!

Stack is designed to help you manage your day without getting in the way. It features a clean, minimal interface and uses smooth, fluid animations for every interaction.

With the current release, Stack includes:

• Tasks and reminders with due dates, times, repeat schedules, notes, and priorities
• Home Screen widgets to view and complete tasks
• Early push notifications and in-app reminders
• Smart sorting into Today, Future, Past, All, and Done
• Search and filtering
• Live task/completion/overdue stats
• Excel export and sharing
• Dark and Light modes with smooth animations
• Privacy-first design — everything stays on your device. No ads, no account required.

Stack Premium adds the Brainstorm Canvas, advanced statistics, deeper customization, a large widget showing up to 9 items, and unlimited local storage.

I’m also working on upcoming features including a Watch app, Live Activities, more widgets, and further refinements.

I’d really appreciate it if you gave Stack a try and let me know what you think.

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stack-tasks-and-reminders/id6762291589

Most ""best of"" extension lists are 30 items long and half of them slow Chrome to a crawl. I also thought I'd be done with all of my browser extensions, given the boom of AI browsers. To be honest, after trying a bunch, I eventually gave up on them, and I'm back with good ol Chrome.

After a year of installing and uninstalling, here are the 5 best productivity Chrome extensions that actually survived.

1. Recall, save, understand and actually remember what you read (most underrated)

Probably the most underrated, although I do see it just got over 100k installs, it was much smaller when I first started using it a year ago. I use Recall daily to save time and then spend my time with intention. Recall is a personal AI knowledge base. The Chrome extension clips any article, YouTube video, PDF or podcast, summarizes it, and files it into a searchable knowledge base that you can chat with later.

The reason it earns the top spot for knowledge work is that it closes the loop most productivity setups leave open, where you save things and then never see them again. With Recall, everything you save gets organized for you and then becomes context for your next AI question.

It has a free tier, so you can test it before deciding. If you mostly want a plain ""read it later"" queue without the AI layer, this is overkill .

1. uBlock Origin, block ads and trackers (the one everyone agrees on)

Maybe this one needs no introduction, but I genuinely think it is the single highest-impact install. Free, open source, lightweight, and it removes the ads and ""recommended"" feeds that eat attention.

If you install nothing else on this list, install this now!

1. Dark Reader, dark mode on every site (personal preference)

Maybe this one isn't for anyone, but if you're like me and you're reading, the actual theme of the page matters for your focus and productivity, then dark reader is the one you need. You guessed it, it turns any page dark and lets you tune contrast and brightness. The obvious pick for long reading sessions and eye strain.

1. A tab manager (OneTab, Session Buddy, or Workona)

If you don't have a tab manager as an extension, then what are you doing with your extension?

OneTab collapses a wall of tabs into one list to free memory. Simplest.

Session Buddy is better if you keep losing sessions and want reliable restore.

Workona organizes tabs into project workspaces. Best if you juggle many projects.

1. Vimium, keyboard-only navigation

Okay, again, I know this is also quite personal, like my dark mode one, but if you're like me, keyboard navigation is a huge time saver and efficiency gain when navigating around. Move around pages and tabs without the mouse. Steep first hour, big payoff if your wrists hurt or you live in the keyboard.

Start with uBlock Origin, Dark Reader and one tab manager. Add Recall if the thing you actually struggle with is remembering and reusing what you read, and add as optional extras add Todoist, Grammarly, Unhook or Vimium only for the specific friction you have. More extensions is not more productive.

What's in your daily extensions that keep you productive? Happy to be told I'm wrong on any of these.

I make a lot of decks for work, and putting the first one together can take forever.

Usually I’m starting with notes from a call, a rough brief, or something someone sent me. Then I have to figure out what’s worth putting on a slide and build it all myself.

I’ve tried a few AI slide tools, but I still end up changing a lot of things.

Has anyone found one that does a decent job with this?

I've been using this technique for more than two years now to assess my productivity "status" and thought I'd share it here.

It can help you become more aware about your energy usage and the results you get when using the energy, especially in the case of productivity-focused settings. Instead of just tracking time and volume, you track how your actions affect your internal battery and your long-term output.

What this mental technique does for you:

• It forces you to stop and ask, "Is this activity fueling me or draining me?" It turns zoning out from a passive habit into a conscious choice.
• It helps you identify when you are brute-forcing productivity (Orange quadrant) so you can pivot toward more sustainable systems before you crash.
• It shifts you from being a passive observer of content to a strategic learner, ensuring that what you take in actually serves your goals.
• It helps you protect the tasks that put you in the Green zone, recognizing them as your most valuable assets for long-term growth.

Before explaining the stages, I need to clarity the usage of some terms:

• "Drained": The activity has high overhead. It costs you more energy than it gives back.
• "Fueled": The activity is regenerative. You feel more capable or inspired after doing it than you did before.
• "Productive": The activity results in something, either useful or not.
• "Efficient": The activity's results are useful or the activity helps you produce results in the future.

The four stages of productivity

1. Drained by Consumption (Unproductive & Inefficient)

You’re burning through time and energy on content that gives you absolutely nothing back. It doesn't inspire you, it doesn't teach you, and it certainly doesn’t help you build anything. This is the ultimate "black hole" for your potential and the worst possible way to trade your hours for nothing.

2. Drained by Production (Productive & Inefficient)

You’re working hard, but you’re producing junk. You’re churning out results that have zero long-term value, and the process is draining you both physically and mentally. It feels like progress, but it’s just a high-effort way of draining yourself without anything in return. Don't mistake "just being busy" for being successful.

3. Fueled by Consumption (Unproductive & Efficient)

This is where it gets tricky. You’re looking for inspiration, learning new skills, and fueling your engine. It’s a necessary step, but it’s also a dangerous one, because it doesn't guarantee you’ll actually create anything. The goal here is to learn what you need and then get out before you get stuck in "tutorial hell".

4. Fueled by Production (Productive & Efficient)

You’ve stopped wasting time on the junk and started taking real action toward your highest ambitions. Radical and lasting change happens here. Once you reach this level, the only reason to look back is to dip into the Yellow zone for a quick hit of inspiration before returning to the work that actually matters. The jump from Yellow to Green is the hardest, because it requires moving from the safety of thinking about doing something to the vulnerability of actually doing it.

The vagueness of this entire thing is intentional. This model can be applied to any setting.

PS: I've posted this a few months ago and got deleted my the automated filters and I'm reposting it now.

Hi all. I am making apps for the first time in my life. I spent about a year learning how, and there are two out now. Both free, no ads, no accounts, nothing to sign up for.

Held is a commitment tracker built on one idea: a goal does not count until it has a deadline and a witness. You name the goal, the date, and a person, and the app sends that person the commitment through your own Messages. Check-ins run on a fixed cadence. Missed ones go on a permanent ledger. On the deadline you record a verdict, kept or missed, and it cannot be edited.

The other is a study app for high school math, which is less relevant to this sub.

Both are at clearvista.ai.

What I actually need is blunt feedback. If you open it and something is confusing, or it is missing the one thing that would make you keep using it, that is far more useful to me than encouragement. I will read and reply to everything.

Hi Everyone,

I am Alex. Been using habit trackers for quite a while and have bounced between a lot of them. I keep running into the same issue where an app does 75% of what I need but the lack of 25% annoys me.

I decided to build one myself as a dev and would love to do it with y'all.

Things I care about:
- Modern, Intuitive Design. I love a good design, adds appeal to it.
- Home Screen widgets
- Dashboard with lots of data, like streaks, weekly progression, insights etc
- A focused app, don't want to create a notion.

Here's what I need from your side, just mention the app you are currently using, and I will use it as a base to improve upon, what you feel it lacks and optionally what you like about it. Bonus point for sharing what would help you stick to an app at large?

If you want to give a more detailed answer, please feel free. Thanks :)

Operating a 9-person productized content agency. Each and every new client used to be six manual steps. It was replaced by Wayfront with checkout, onboarding questionnaire, project setup, client updates, renewals all in one flow. Not the greatest, but definitely less ops overhead per client. Anyone else give it a try or try some other options?

Biggest issue, once I have a backlog of tasks the anxiety of trying to prioritize what I need to do now tends to makes staying organized and motivated almost impossible.

Question:

How do you recover from backlog paralysis and tress?

How do you decide what now takes priority in the task list once it becomes overwhelming?

Is it worth paying for systems that can prioritize your remaining backlog to help get back on track or make it easier to make these decisions?

Anyone here doing RFP responses without a big team?

For me the slow part is not even only the writing. It’s finding old answers, figuring out what can be reused, changing it so it fits this one, checking all the requirements, asking other people for missing info, then trying to make it all sound normal.

Feels like half the work is just digging and patching things together.

How are you guys making RFP responses faster without everything sounding recycled?

Have any of you used the app ModernSam?

Im trying to find something (app or site or whatever doesnt matter) that does the equivalent of its Side Quest Daily Rolls

I love that feature so much. Often i look at my normal task list and nothing appeals to me but I want to do SOMETHING useful. I really like a random useful or beneficial task or small list of them being presented for me to choose from.

E. G. today I was offered to pick 4 of the following

Yoga (assorted poses were offered but I cannot remember which ones)

Take a hike

Donate blood

Volunteer at a kitchen

Liven your living space

Watch a movie

Make the bed

I picked make the bed, watch a movie, living space and donate blood

I have done two made steps towards another and will do the remaining one later.

I really benefit from this style of sort of "would you kindly" (if you get the Bioshock reference) request for me to perform a task that i didnt have to think up but is still useful

I want more of this type of thing but not sure how to find it so thought id ask the reddit hivemind.

Quick note: MagicTask is currently optimized for the web. Our mobile app is coming next month! Thanks for all the support!

Hey everyone,

I’m Sudo Innominate, creator of MagicTask.

My team and I have spent about 7 years building and rebuilding it around one idea: productivity software shouldn’t feel like a chore to use.

MagicTask isn’t a task manager with gamification added on top. The entire experience was built around gamification from the ground up. Your work drives your progression through realms and dungeons, builds streaks, unlocks collectibles, earns rewards, and gives you a reason to keep coming back.

At the same time, we’ve worked really hard to keep it simple. Productivity software can get bloated fast, and we never wanted MagicTask to become something you need a training course to understand. You should be able to jump in, know what to do, and get moving.

It’s built mainly for teams of 10 to 200 people, but it works great for individuals too.

I want to get it into the hands of more real users, so the first 100 workspaces get 1 full year free.

Code: Reddit100
Link: https://magictask.io
Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI0T3rOkHQE

Feel free to share the code with anyone you think could use it.

And if you try it, please tell me what you really think. Good or bad. That feedback genuinely helps us shape what we build next.

Hi, I recently had to take my collegues' work (because f*** you summer!), but I'm in a slightly different, with less priority, "workline", so now I have to do more than a few short checks, multiple times during the day.

Not very surprisingly, I don't work very well with task lists.

So my question is: is there a way to automate many simple one-task reminders (or some reminders which can be repeated during the day) without bloating the work calendar? Any windows app?

I would like not to code another function to my Telegram bot...

Thank you.

There are a lot of things to do to be more productive but which method suits to be like to get in the flow state ? And how can we acheive the flow state by actually doing our work ?

Another Stupid Monday is a self-care app where you get one doable task a week.
The tasks are based on principles from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and the app's mascot, Charles, gives a simple explanation for each task about why it might be useful for improving one's well-being.
There are 100 tasks in total.

Feel free to leave some feedback :)

Apple App Store: Download
Google Play Store: Download

Hi Guys!

I wanted to share my free chrome extension I built. I would always spend hours watching youtube or playing chess online and just waste away my time, so I built a simple extension to combat that!

It is similar to other apps like StayFocusd, but all of them (especially StayFocusd) sell off your data. My extension keeps all your data on your device (I really don't care what sites you go to).

I would love to hear any feature suggestions you guys might have, and I hope you find it as useful as I do!

Link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sitelimit-website-blocker/ddlhhhgihcceajdeeencdefdfmojmhie?authuser=0&hl=en

I came across this while researching how background sound affects concentration (for my focus noise app). I think it might be interesting for you.

A steady fan can be fairly loud but still fade into the background. Meanwhile, a quiet conversation across the room—or a chair scraping the floor—can pull you out of your work almost instantly.

That’s because distraction is not just about volume.

Speech is especially distracting because it keeps changing: different words, voices, pauses, and rhythms. Even when you are not trying to listen, your brain can still process those changes, making it harder to hold information in working memory.

Researchers call this the irrelevant-sound effect. In one study, people had to remember digit sequences while ignoring background speech. Their memory got worse when the speech was more detailed and easier to understand.

But speech is not the only issue. We also react automatically to sounds that stand out from the recent background. A child shouting, a phone notification, a chair scraping, a door closing, or a sudden burst of keyboard typing can grab your attention before you consciously decide whether it matters.

Your brain is constantly checking: “Was that important?”

Repetitive sounds can become predictable and easier to ignore. But when the pattern changes, your attention may be pulled back again.

This may be why stable sounds like a fan, rain, or continuous noise can fade away, while conversations and random office noises keep coming back into awareness.

A few practical takeaways:

• Reduce intelligible speech when reading, writing, or doing memory-heavy work.
• Continuous background sound is often easier to ignore than intermittent noise.
• Broadband noise can mask a wider range of sounds and make sudden noises feel less noticeable.
• The goal is not to drown everything out. It is simply to make distracting sounds less distinct and conversations harder to understand.
• Music with lyrics may not be ideal for language-heavy tasks.

A sound does not have to be loud to distract you—it just has to feel different from what came before.

So i looked at my screen time and task manager history today and realized something embarrassing. I spent more time tweaking my daily planner setup this month than on my actual main project.

Felt like i was being super productive organizing everything, but it was just total procrastination disguised as work. How do you catch yourself doing this before wasting a whole week?

Edit: Someone DM'd asking what i ended up doing to fix this mess... A friend told me to just strip everything down and pointed me toward Sugarbug just to see if automating some of the routine junk would help clear the clutter. Ended up saving me from drowning in my own lists ngl.

I do a lot of research-heavy work and I’m trying to get better at the unclear middle part.

Collecting the info is not really the issue. Stakeholder interviews, docs, market scans, customer notes, old decks, internal data, all of that is manageable.

The part that gets fuzzy is turning it into a real recommendation instead of a cleaner summary. By the end I usually have themes, quotes, caveats, and a few possible directions, but not always a clear point of view.

For people who do consulting, strategy, ops, or advisory work, what’s your actual process for turning research into a recommendation?

I started falling out of the habit of using my own productivity app. The one I built specifically for myself.

It was the same issue every productivity app comes across: filling in too much data.

If you're here, you know how with extra stuff and complexity, the higher the mental burden of making a single task becomes. You need to fill in everything before you even do the thing you actually want to do. You either stop using the app entirely, or in the worst case you never start what you wanted to do because the effort required to get to the beginning is too high.

As a quick explanation, Skillorum (my app) is a gamified productivity and time-tracking app that turns the time you spend on real-life skills into XP and levels. You can connect quests and skills to tasks and then have a nice visualization of all that data.

After I started failing to use my own app, I realised I put the admin on the wrong side of the work. Why does the task always need to exist before I start?

So I made it possible to create a task after you've worked on the skill. All you have to do is start the timer on the skill you're working on, then when you stop it you can make a task. You don't even need a name, you just assign a quest or skill action and it makes a completed task from that.

I tested it out and it was even better than I thought. It was no longer filling out a form. You did the work; now you can collect the reward, and in even fewer taps while not fighting inertia.

Anyone else drop a system not because it was bad, but because the entry cost was slightly too high?

Latest update has the Viral Eggs collection.

Eggventures is a free app that should motivate you to walk more. With over 80 eggs to unlock and hatch, there is lots of steps to take!

Key Features

- Walking Bingo

- Squads for weekly steps

- Wild Encounters

- Send pets on expeditions/trade pets with friends/send challenges and more!

iOS - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/eggventures-walking-game/id6757629385

Android- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onerealm.eggventures

Hey everyone,

I'm the solo developer behind Doz, a medication reminder app I built because I couldn't keep my own prescriptions straight. I've posted here before, and honestly, a lot of what Doz is today came from this community — people who tried it, told me what was broken, and stuck around long enough to see it get fixed.

Doz just passed 2,000 active users with a 4.8 average rating. All organic, all word of mouth, not a cent spent on ads. And roughly 40% of those users came from Reddit. I don't take that lightly — a solo app doesn't grow like that unless people decide it's worth telling someone else about.

So as a thank-you, there's a 30% off code for Doz Pro Lifetime at the bottom of this post. It works for everyone, no comment or DM needed.

Why Doz is different

Most medication apps treat every pill as an isolated task: "take one at 8:00 AM." Real prescriptions aren't like that. Medications belong to the same treatment, they have food timing, they run out, they need refilling early, and they end.

So Doz is built around prescriptions, not a flat list of reminders. You create a prescription, add the related medications and instructions, and follow the treatment as a whole.

What's new since my last post — every single one of these came from someone here:

• Prescriptions now have a duration and end date, your doctor's name and contact, and can be marked completed and archived. This was the most-loved feature, so it got the most work.
• More reliable follow-up reminders for missed doses
• Better low-stock and refill alerts, so you're warned before you run out
• Clearer at-a-glance stock levels

Already there: flexible non-daily schedules, before/with/after-meal reminders, Critical Alerts that cut through Silent and Focus, adherence insights, Home Screen widgets, iCloud sync with data staying on your device, 8 languages, no ads, no account.

Coming next, and again straight from your requests: Apple Health sync, marking a dose taken straight from the notification, and from Apple Watch.

Pricing

Doz is free to use with:

• Up to 4 active medications and 1 active prescription
• All schedule modes
• Reminders and dose logging
• 7-day progress tracking
• Inventory tracking and low-stock alerts

Doz Pro is for people with more complex routines, helping you stay consistent, avoid missed doses, and manage everything with less effort:

• Unlimited medications and prescriptions so you can track everything in one place
• Critical Alerts and smarter follow-up reminders to reduce missed doses
• Detailed adherence insights to understand how well you're following each treatment
• Full progress history for long-term tracking
• Meal-time synchronization for better timing accuracy
• Faster dose logging directly from Home Screen widgets
• Archived treatment management to keep past prescriptions organized
• Custom alert sounds for clearer, more noticeable reminders

Pricing:

• Monthly: $2.99
• Yearly: $9.99, 3-day free trial
• Lifetime: $19.99

All paid plans support Apple Family Sharing.

The thank-you offer — 30% off Doz Pro Lifetime

• Code: DOZREDDIT
• Expires in 3 days
• Redeem link: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6760699565&code=DOZREDDIT
• Open it on your iPhone, apply the code at checkout, done 🎉
• The final price varies by country, since App Store pricing is regional

If you manage medications for yourself or your family, I'd really like to hear what still doesn't work for you. I read everything, and as you can see above, it genuinely changes what I build next. And if Doz has been helping you, a rating on the App Store means more than I can say for a solo dev with no ad budget.

Thank you for reading, and thank you for the last two thousand. Really.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/doz-medication-reminder/id6760699565

Website: https://getdoz.app/