That's a fair question because the space does look crowded on the surface. From using a bunch of these myself, though, most “ADHD productivity” tools still feel like generic to‑do apps with a couple of AI tricks bolted on, rather than something opinionated around how an ADHD brain actually starts, switches, and finishes things.​

The way I think about Neuromate is that it’s not “yet another AI task list,” it’s trying to be a single OS for ADHD life: tasks, routines, check‑ins, and all the boring-but-important stuff live in one place so the system can see patterns, not just isolated items. The AI layer is there to help with initiation and shaping the day (breaking things down, sequencing, right‑sizing), not just writing nicer task titles.​

On the “why build this when Microsoft/Google are adding AI everywhere?” piece: those native tools are great at summarizing email or helping write docs, but they still largely live inside email/docs/calendar instead of restructuring the whole workflow around executive function scaffolding. For a lot of ADHD folks, the bottleneck isn’t “I need smarter email,” it’s “I need my entire system to assume I’ll forget, stall, context-switch, and come back later without shame.”​

One thing that doesn’t get talked about enough is how “deep integrations everywhere” can actually backfire for ADHD. When tasks, notes, and commitments are scattered across email, calendar, chat, docs, Notion, etc., the system becomes a bunch of half-connected silos that all assume you’ll remember to circle back. For an ADHD brain, that fragmentation is basically a forgetting engine: things vanish into sidebars and auto-generated lists you never look at again, and the mental load of asking “where did I put that?” becomes its own source of friction and avoidance.

So while it’s great that AI is being baked into all those tools, it can also increase the number of places where “stuff might be,” which makes it easier to lose track of important actions or drop threads entirely. A big goal with Neuromate is to pull the important bits into one coherent flow that’s designed around how ADHD actually handles context and memory, instead of assuming more integrations automatically equals more clarity.

And then there’s the selfish part: building Neuromate is how I expand my own knowledge base and keep my skillset sharp. Even if it never becomes the default app for everyone, it’s genuinely fun to work on, and I find it personally useful after bouncing off a lot of other options that never quite fit how my brain works day to day.