Open Pinnix. See your day. Start with the first thing.
That's the whole idea. But here's what's actually going on underneath, and why it works for brains the productivity world has been ignoring.
Brain dump everything. We mean everything.
The hardest part of getting anything done isn't the work, it's the cost of carrying it all in your head. Every task you haven't written down is using up brain space. Every "I must remember to..." is a low-level drag on focus.
Pinnix opens to a single button: Brain Dump. Tap it and start writing, or paste in a wall of text. Meetings, ideas, errands, half-thoughts, that thing you keep meaning to do. No categories required. No priority needed. No structure. Just get it out.
Pinnix reads the dump and pulls out one card per task, sizing each one with an energy level and a rough time estimate so you're not staring at a wall of empty fields. Twelve scattered thoughts become twelve sorted cards in your Brain Dump column, ready to triage. You just had to remember.
Big tasks become small tasks. Real ones.
"Write the proposal." "Sort the accounts." "Clear the garage." These aren't tasks. They're walls. Brains with executive function challenges stare at them and freeze, not because the work is hard, but because the start is invisible.
Pinnix uses AI to break large jobs into the smallest honest first step. Not "draft the proposal", that's still a wall. The actual first step. "Open a blank doc and write the working title." Then the next one. "Paste in the brief and read it twice." Then the next.
The number of steps matches the size of the task. A quick errand might be three steps. A heavy piece of work might be eight or ten. Never seven for the sake of seven.
The wall becomes a staircase. You stop staring. You start one small bit. Momentum builds itself.
A day planned around when you actually focus.
Most planners ask you to slot tasks into time. Pinnix asks the better question: when do you focus best? You answer that once during onboarding (and refine it in Settings any time), and the planner does the rest.
Each task in Pinnix has an energy level: Easy, Steady, or Heavy. Pinnix lines up the heavy work for your peak window, the steady work for the middle of your day, and the easy work for when you're winding down.
No more starting your hardest task at 4pm and wondering why it won't move.
Today
A small, doable plan. Start where it feels easiest.
The tool watches so you don't have to.
Pinnix notices when a task keeps getting pushed. When a day drifts. When you've been avoiding the same thing all week. And then it does the calm thing, it asks, gently, if you want to break it down further, mark it blocked, or set it aside for now.
When you hit Start, the rest of the app falls away. A single task, its checklist, and a timer. Pause when life happens. Mark done when it's done. Move to Blocked when it's actually blocked. No streaks to maintain. No red badges. No guilt.
Write the Q3 brief
- List all Q3 priorities and business objectives
- Gather relevant data and metrics from Q2
- Draft executive summary with key goals
- Outline main sections and structure
No streak to lose. Stopping is fine. Showing up at all is the win.
One button for the moments you're stuck.
Some days you open the app and everything feels equally impossible to start. Decision paralysis is real, and pretending willpower will fix it isn't useful.
Tap "Pick for me." Pinnix weighs everything on your board against four things: what you've told it matters (priority), what you've been avoiding (cards that have been sitting longest), what time it is (your sharpest energy window), and what kind of energy and time you've got right now (you tell it in one tap). The top card wins. No drama. No question. Just start.
Bionic reading, on if you want it.
Long blocks of text are work. Brains with ADHD or dyslexia often parse small chunks better than long lines. Pinnix has bionic reading built in: the first half of every word gets a touch of weight, the rest stays light. Your eye lands faster, the page reads quicker, the noise drops.
Toggle it on in Settings. Off if it's not for you. That's it.
Pinnix opens to a single button: Brain Dump. Tap it and start writing, or paste in a wall of text. Meetings, ideas, errands, half-thoughts, that thing you keep meaning to do.
Preview: this is how text looks with Bionic Reading on.
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