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Todorant – a smart todo app that tricks your brain into completing tasks

sideprojects.net

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Mods, the actual link is https://todorant.com/

This points at sideprojects.net, that points at medium.com that points at vc.ru (though in Russian) and apparently it's about guy's post on how he read 20 books and made 7 projects (mostly Telegram bots) in one year. Then, one link there goes to his blog, where you can finally find a link to this "smart todo app".

oof, thank you for your effort to find the actual link

>Todorant is a plain vanilla todo list with one single catch. Every action and feature was carefully weighted and tested using cognitive psychology. I have used the decades of studies and packed them into a single simple silver-bullet productivity tool. Todorant tricks your mind into doing more good actions and less bad actions. It builds positive habits and gets rid of bad behaviour.

Can anyone share the specific "cognitive psychology tricks" encoded into this product that costs $60/year?

It goes into detail on site in a modal popup, there's a link in the top right corner with a clipboard icon as well as a link that you can search for with the text "opening the rulebook".

I'm going to respect the author of this clearly personal project by not copying it verbatim, it's not exactly hard to access =)...

In this Medium article[1], Nikita Kolmogorov describes the rules he embedded in Todorant. The rules are ...

- As soon as you think of a task (e.g. you get an email) you should add it to your task list — and then archive this email away from the inbox.

- If you are going to spend less that 2 minutes completing the task — do it right away.

- Tasks should be simple, clear, short, specific, actionable.

- Spend a couple of days organizing everything and every thought you own.

- Every task should either have an exact date or a specific month (but not the current month) to complete; you should not have any tasks without specific month or date to complete them.

- Do day planning every morning. Do week planning every Monday morning. Do month planning every first day of the month morning.

- Don’t feel ashamed and add completed tasks to the todo list marked completed.

- Complete unpleasant tasks (frogs) in the morning.

- Focus on only one task at a time.

[1] https://medium.com/@nikitakolmogorov/how-i-launched-7-produc...

sounds like the old gtd approach to me

Like every set of rules, they work if you follow them. Like, you know the secret of a successful diet is not eating all that junk you gulp down every day. The secret of quitting cigarettes is not smoking them. But you still do. So what? where is the magic powder that makes this happen in todorant? Do they send a couple of mafia hitmen to make sure you're not having a quick smoke in the parking lot, like in that old Stephen King novel?

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I most certainly am not.

No thanks. I actually don't want to sign up for my brain to be tricked into doing anything. Please leave my brain alone

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