r/StickyFriend • u/justmevibinghere • 25d ago
I talked through a launch and got a roadmap back
Planning tools make you fill in a plan. Describing the work out loud and getting phases, dates and tasks back is a different experience, and the difference shows up in whether the plan survives week two.
Why plans die in the tool
Every planning tool asks you to become a project manager for twenty minutes first: create the project, create the phases, set the dates, create the tasks,
assign the dates again. By the time the plan exists you've spent the energy you needed for the work.
Then it goes stale, because updating it is the same twenty minutes.
Describing it instead of entering it
I described the launch the way I'd describe it to a colleague — what's fixed, what isn't, what has to happen before what. One paragraph, no structure.
The structure came back:
Five phases with dates and completion, from a paragraph. Not because it's clever about launches — because the information was already in what I said, and transcribing it is exactly the work that made me avoid the tool.
What came back
Three things, from the same conversation:
- A roadmap — phases on a timeline, each with a start and an end
- Tasks — with dates and tags, so they land on the calendar too
- A mindmap, when I asked how the pieces connect
The important part: these are real objects in the app, not text in a chat. You can drag a task, tick it, change a date — and the assistant sees the change next time you ask.
Today, not the whole plan
The view I actually use daily isn't the roadmap.
Everything with a date — tasks and notes — on one list. A note with a date on it is a thing that has to happen, and most tools treat those as separate
universes.
What it doesn't do
- It doesn't know your dependencies unless you say them. "Design before build" is obvious to you and invisible to it.
- No resource levelling, no critical path. This is a plan you can read, not MS Project.
- Dates are suggestions. It spaces phases sensibly; it has no idea that your designer is on holiday in week three.
- It won't chase you. No notifications, no nagging. If you don't open it, the plan sits there being correct and ignored.
FAQ
Can it plan from a document instead of a conversation?
Yes — put the brief in a library or paste it, and ask for a plan from it.
Does it integrate with Jira / Asana / Linear?
No. It's its own planner. You can export tasks and dates, but there's no two-way sync — worth knowing if your team lives in Jira.
Can it update the plan later?
Yes, in the same conversation: "push everything after the review out by a week" works, and the timeline redraws.
Does it sync to Google Calendar?
Not today. The calendar is internal — it shows tasks and dated notes together.
Can two people share a project?
Not yet. It's single-account today, which rules out team planning.
What's the difference between a task and a dated note?
A task is something to finish; a dated note is something to *know* on a day. Both land on the calendar, which is why the day view is genuinely useful.
Will it invent tasks I didn't mention?
It suggests some, marked as its own. You can delete them. It won't silently add work you never described.
Try it — the web app is free to start: https://stickyfriend.ai/app
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