Reminders loud enough
to actually work.
Task Assistant is a reminder app built around the way an ADHD brain actually fails a to-do list — the task you meant to do that quietly vanished. So this one doesn't sit in a list waiting to be remembered. It interrupts, it escalates, and it won't let the important things disappear.
See it in action
The actual app, loaded with made-up sample tasks — nothing is saved and none of it is real. Add a task, check one off, open the calendar.
▶ Interactive demo Try the real app It's a full desktop app, so it opens in its own tab with sample data to poke around. Roomiest on a computer — but tap in and take a look. Open the live demo →Most task apps are a tidy list that assumes you'll remember to look at it. For a lot of people — especially with ADHD — that's exactly the part that breaks. The appointment, the med refill, the bill: not forgotten because they didn't matter, forgotten because nothing made you deal with them at the moment they mattered.
I built Task Assistant around that failure point instead of ignoring it. Every feature answers one question: how do we make the right thing impossible to quietly skip?
What it does, and why
Always-on-top reminders
When a task is due, a reminder pops up and stays on top of everything until you handle it or deliberately snooze it — not a banner that slides away while you're mid-thought. It's built for the "I'll do it in a sec" that becomes three hours.
Loud, can't-miss phone alarms
Appointments and urgent tasks can ring your phone with a siren that re-rings every 30 seconds until you actually acknowledge it. You pick which tasks earn that treatment — so the dentist and the med refill get through even when a normal notification wouldn't.
Scheduled tasks + an Upcoming calendar
Give a task a time and it appears when it's relevant, not buried in an endless list. The Upcoming view lays your week out visually, so "time blindness" has something concrete to push against.
Routines & recurring tasks
Start your morning with one tap and get walked through it step by step. Recurring tasks — daily, weekdays, weekly — come back on their own, so you're not re-adding "take meds" every single day.
Priorities that are obvious at a glance
Appointments and urgent items are colored and sorted so the thing that matters looks like it matters. No hunting through a flat list to find what's actually on fire.
It follows you everywhere
Your tasks sync across every computer you install it on, so the list is identical on your desktop and your laptop. Mobile is on the roadmap — the whole thing in your pocket.
I didn't build this from a product spec — I built it because I needed it, and I kept adding whatever it took to close the gap between "I know I have to do this" and "it actually got done." That's the whole design philosophy: escalate until it can't be ignored, then get out of your way.
It's the same instinct that runs through everything I build as a nurse-turned-developer — find the exact place the system fails a real person, and fix that.
Want the mobile version?
The Windows app is live today, and a phone version is what's next. Want a heads-up the day it lands? I'll email you — that's it, no list-selling, no spam.
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