The story

I'm very organized, and yet I needed more

I've tried every productivity system — to-do lists, outliners, tagged notebooks, plain text files. Each one worked until it didn't. An adult ADHD diagnosis explained a lot: the tools weren't failing me at planning. They were failing me at everything that comes after — starting, remembering, finishing.

Then I noticed something. During Zoom working meetings I was remarkably productive; the second the meeting ended, my output crashed to zero. This turns out to be a known thing in ADHD called body doubling: simply working alongside another person can get you unstuck. I started asking — can an AI be that person? +heybuddy is my answer, and I use it every day.

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Body doubling, on demand

The app opens the way a good coworking session starts: someone asks what you're up to. One box. Type what's on your mind and either post it to your timeline or chat about it with an AI companion that has read your timeline — so the conversation starts from what you've actually been doing, not from a blank slate.

The main tab. One prompt, two verbs: post it or talk about it.

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A timeline beats a filing cabinet

Everything I need to track is smaller than it feels — it all fits in plain text. So instead of folders and apps to tend, +heybuddy keeps one chronological feed: every task, note, update, and half-formed idea, in the order it landed. Brain-dump into it as often as you need, and get the thought out of your head before it evaporates. Then ask it anything — “what's left on +garden project?” — and it reads the feed back to you. You end up with what most productivity apps never give you: a record of what you actually did.

The timeline. +projects and #tags are extracted automatically from plain language — no forms, no folders.

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Your week, read back to you

Every day with ADHD can feel like Groundhog Day: what was I even doing? The dashboard answers that without being asked. It reads your timeline and writes per-project summaries in the style you need right now — the full picture, a TL;DR, what's upcoming, or a morning standup. Capture is only worth it if retrieval is free.

The dashboard. AI-written summaries per project, in four styles — including "Standup," for people who miss having one.

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"What should I work on today?"

The question that stalls an ADHD morning is rarely how — it's where do I even start? Ask the chat and it answers from your actual timeline: what's fresh, what's been stalling, what's a quick win. Then it offers to break the pick into steps small enough to start. That's the body double doing its job.

The chat. It knows what you've been doing, what's stalling, and what would count as a win today.

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Some entries grow up

A brain dump is where writing starts. Most entries stay two lines long — but the one that wants to become an essay, a talk, or a weekly plan can grow up without leaving the app. Open it in a full markdown editor with an AI writing assistant one pane away (I call it Edit++) — because for an ADHD brain, "move it to a real writing app" is exactly the kind of side quest where drafts go to die.

Edit++: Smart editing with a writing assistant one pane away.

Under the hood

Real, shipped, in daily use

+heybuddy is a full-stack web app: React and TypeScript on the front, Express and PostgreSQL behind, with both OpenAI and Anthropic models doing the language work. Timeline entries support images, pinning, soft deletion with undo, autosave, and draft persistence — capture is frictionless and forgiving, because for ADHD brains the cost of losing a thought is real.

Get in touch

Not public yet — but I'd love to talk