A Todo App That Works for ADHD
Mindo is a simple, distraction-free todo app designed for how ADHD brains actually work — minimal friction, instant capture, and clear priorities without overwhelming complexity.
Most todo apps are designed by neurotypical people for neurotypical workflows. They assume you can maintain complex organizational systems, remember to check multiple views, and stay motivated by a neat folder structure. If you have ADHD, you know that's not how it works.
ADHD brains need external structure that's dead simple to use. The moment a tool requires setup, maintenance, or multiple steps to add a task, it gets abandoned. Mindo is built to be the opposite — instant capture, zero friction, and a clean view that doesn't overwhelm.
Key Features
Instant task capture
The ADHD window for capturing a thought is seconds, not minutes. Mindo opens instantly and lets you add a task with zero friction — no loading screens, no mandatory fields. Thought → task → done.
Visual priorities
ADHD makes it hard to distinguish what's important from what's just loud. Color-coded priority levels (high, medium, low) give you an immediate visual signal about what actually matters, cutting through the noise.
One simple view
Multiple views, tabs, and modes are ADHD kryptonite — out of sight means out of mind. Mindo keeps everything in one scrollable list. No tasks hiding in different projects or views you forgot to check.
Sort to focus
When your brain can't decide what to do next, sort by priority or due date and start at the top. The app makes the decision for you — which is exactly what an overwhelmed ADHD brain needs.
No setup to abandon
ADHD brains are great at starting new systems and terrible at maintaining them. Mindo has nothing to set up — no projects, no categories, no weekly reviews to keep it running. It works from day one and keeps working without maintenance.
Why Mindo?
Designed for low-friction capture
The biggest enemy of ADHD productivity isn't lack of ideas — it's the gap between having a thought and recording it. If that gap is more than a few seconds, the thought is gone. Complex apps with loading times, login screens, and mandatory fields make this gap fatal.
Mindo is a PWA that loads instantly. Open it, type, hit enter. No login on the Free plan, no loading spinner, no fields to fill out. The task is saved before your brain has a chance to move on to the next thought.
Everything visible, nothing hidden
ADHD brains operate on an 'out of sight, out of mind' principle. Tasks in a subfolder, a separate tab, or a collapsed section might as well not exist. Many task apps hide tasks behind layers of navigation — and those tasks never get done.
Mindo shows all your tasks in one list. No projects to drill into, no views to switch between, no collapsed sections. Every task is visible, every priority is color-coded. When you open the app, you see everything — and that's the only way to make sure nothing gets forgotten.
No maintenance required
Most productivity systems require regular maintenance — weekly reviews, archiving completed projects, reorganizing labels. For ADHD, these maintenance tasks never happen, and the system slowly becomes unusable. Then you start over with a new app.
Mindo breaks this cycle because there's nothing to maintain. No projects to archive, no labels to prune, no organizational structure to upkeep. Check off tasks as you complete them. Add new ones as they come. That's the entire system — and it keeps working whether you review it weekly or not.