AI breakdown into 5-minute steps
Type a goal in plain words. AI returns 5–9 concrete steps, each under five minutes, each starting with a verb — and the first one is always trivially easy, because the on-ramp is everything.
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Everything Momentum does
Productivity apps manage tasks. Momentum manages the part that actually fails: starting, staying, stopping well, and coming back. Every feature below exists because an ADHD brain needed it.
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Chapter I
Starting
You rarely fail because you don't know what to do. You fail because starting is the expensive part.
Plans that know your setup
Tell Momentum you own a dishwasher and a robot vacuum. "Clean the kitchen" becomes "load the dishwasher" and "clear a path for the vacuum" — never generic advice for a life you don't have.
Say it, don't type it
Voice input on goals and thought capture. Talking is cheaper than typing when your working memory is already full.
Spoon costs on every step
Every step carries an energy cost (1–3 spoons) estimated on activation energy, not minutes — a phone call is a 3 even when it takes two minutes. Adjust any cost; it's your energy.
Your plan, not the AI's
Every generated plan is fully editable before you start — reword, resize, delete, add. The AI proposes; you decide.
Never blocked by an outage
If the AI is unreachable, Momentum falls back to a universal starter plan instantly. The app never makes your bad day worse.
Chapter II
Doing
Focus Mode shows one step, one button, and someone in your corner.
One step at a time
Full-screen Focus Mode: the current step, huge; one Done button (or just press Enter); nothing else to look at. Celebrations when you land it.
An AI body double
A quiet companion sits with you while you work — gentle check-ins every few minutes, celebration when you finish a step, presence when you stall. Written fresh for each session, aware of your goal.
The Studio — real humans
See who's working alongside you, live: "Alex — writing one paragraph." No chat, no video, no pressure — just parallel presence, the oldest ADHD trick there is. Anonymous by default.
Make it smaller
Any step can be split into 2-minute micro-steps with one tap. And if a step outlives its estimate, Momentum offers — kindly — "this step might be bigger than it looked." The step's fault. Never yours.
Just five minutes
An optional countdown ring for "let's just do five minutes." When it ends: done, or make it smaller? While it runs, nothing nags you.
The parking lot
"I need to email Dave!" — park the thought in two seconds (typed or spoken) and stay on task. Review later with AI-suggested triage: trash it, make it a step, make it a goal, or keep it.
Chapter III
Stopping well — and coming back
ADHD makes stopping as hard as starting, and restarting hardest of all.
Soft landings
"Come back later" asks one skippable question — where did you leave off? — and next session opens with your own note. The restart tax drops to zero.
Hyperfocus wind-downs
Deep in it for 50 minutes, or an appointment approaching? The companion suggests finding a landing spot — with a snooze, because sometimes the flow is real.
Time anchors
"Dentist at 3, leave by 2:30" — and the shapeless dread before an appointment becomes "2h 40m: room for two focus sessions, and this goal fits the gap." Waiting mode, dissolved.
Chapter IV
Keeping it going
Momentum is the product — not task completion.
A momentum score, not a productivity score
0–100, built from your recent activity with gentle time decay. Even skipping a step earns a point — you engaged, and that counts.
Streaks that bend, not break
One missed day is a rest day — "6-day streak · 1 rest day" — not a reset to zero. Apps that punish a bad day get deleted by the people who need them most.
Daily spoons check-in
One tap each morning: how many spoons today? Low-energy days get 2-minute, one-spoon steps and softer coaching. Your score never suffers for being human.
Routines that reset themselves
Mark "Morning reset" as daily and it revives itself each morning, steps fresh. Weekly works too. History and streaks carry through.
Templates for anything reusable
Pin "Pack for a trip" or "Pre-meeting reset" and start it whenever with one tap — plus "Do it again" on anything you've finished.
Notifications that earn their place
Exactly three, all opt-in: time to leave for your anchor, your morning routine is ready, and a 7pm nudge only when a real streak is one tiny step from surviving the day.
The house rules
“Built kind, all the way down.”
- — No guilt mechanics anywhere: no red, no shame copy, no punishment.
- — Honest scoring: spoons shape your plan, never inflate your points.
- — Timezone-aware automatically — mornings are your mornings.
- — The Studio shares only your first name (or nothing) and your current step — ever.
- — Works instantly as a guest; demo data prunes itself.
- — Every intervention is dismissible, snoozable, or opt-in.
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Under the hood
Laravel 13 · Livewire + Flux · Prism (bring any AI provider — Anthropic, OpenAI, GLM, Ollama) · Laravel Reverb realtime · Postgres · web push · 243 automated tests. Designed, built, and shipped on Laravel Cloud in one weekend.