Field Notes
Notes from the build.
Working notes from building ToDidIt, plus the occasional piece on productivity, working with AI, and the science of getting things done.
Stop Rebuilding the Wheel and Start Finishing
Project Templates, Task Templates, and Description Starters cut repetitive setup. Plus six summer Blueprint templates you can launch today.
- templates
- Project Blueprint
- summer
August 9, 2026
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Where work already happens: ToDidIt for Slack
Capture tasks from Slack, share cards into channels, and keep private work private. How the first integration ships, and what Zapier and the API come next for.
- Slack
- integrations
- privacy
- Zapier
August 6, 2026
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Keep the Agile, drop the admin: Didi as your Scrum support
The useful parts of Agile are the cadence and the honesty. The rest is busywork. How Didi absorbs the sprint admin so the ritual stays light.
- agile
- scrum
- Didi
- sprint planning
July 24, 2026
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One surface, three views: how Horizon plans your work
Sprint, Calendar, and Kanban are three lenses on the same tasks, not three separate tools. The thinking behind Horizon, the planning surface in ToDidIt.
- Horizon
- sprint planning
- kanban board
- calendar view
July 21, 2026
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Building ToDidIt in public
Why a solo founder ships in the open, what we share, and what a real month of building a completion-first task app looks like.
- build in public
- solo SaaS
- founder
- indie hacking
June 27, 2026
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How Project Blueprint turns a sentence into a plan
Describe a goal, get a full project tree in seconds. What Didi does under the hood, and where you stay in control.
- Project Blueprint
- Didi
- AI planning
- project setup
June 25, 2026
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Why we offer a Lifetime deal (and capped it at 100)
The case for a one-time founding-member price, what it funds, and why scarcity here is honest rather than a gimmick.
- lifetime deal
- SaaS pricing
- founding members
- bootstrapping
June 23, 2026
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How Smart Due Dates work
Deadlines that surface what is due soon and what is slipping, without burying you in a wall of overdue red.
- due dates
- deadlines
- product design
- task management
June 21, 2026
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Momentum beats motivation
Motivation is a feeling that comes and goes. Momentum is a system you can build. Why finishing small things is the engine.
- momentum
- habits
- motivation
- small wins
June 19, 2026
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Stop optimizing your backlog
Every productivity tool race is a race to manage the pile of undone work better. We think the whole premise is wrong.
- backlog
- completion-first
- productivity
- focus
June 17, 2026
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Working with a calm AI
Notes on prompting Didi to be specific and warm without being sycophantic. The tone-of-voice rules behind the Daily Recap.
- AI tone of voice
- prompt design
- Didi
- daily recap
June 15, 2026
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Why AI is metered, not bundled per person
The To-Did Ledger explained. Why a flat workspace price plus usage-based AI beats every alternative we tried.
- SaaS pricing
- usage-based pricing
- AI costs
- To-Did Ledger
June 8, 2026
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Didi's four layers: Capture, Celebrate, Clarify, Compose
How an AI partner shows up in a task app without becoming a chatbot. The product principles behind every Didi surface in ToDidIt.
- Didi
- AI assistant
- product design
- task management AI
June 1, 2026
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Three levels deep, no further
Why ToDidIt caps the task hierarchy at Project, Task, Subtask, Sub-subtask. The case for a shallow tree.
- product design
- task hierarchy
- subtasks
- project management
May 25, 2026
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The science of finishing
What studies on completion bias, the Zeigarnik effect, and the IKEA effect tell us about why finishing matters more than starting.
- productivity psychology
- Zeigarnik effect
- completion bias
- IKEA effect
May 18, 2026
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Less to-do. More to-did.
Why most task apps measure failure, and what changes when the default view celebrates what you finished instead.
- completion-first
- productivity
- to-do lists
- motivation
May 11, 2026
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