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Meeting: Brain dump app idea exploration with productivity tool comparison

Date: Mar 8

Speaker

Marra

Turn 1

I thought of the app I was thinking of. So it's about brain dumping. You brain dump all of the things that you have to do, and then it keeps those things and organizes them by priority or to do or whatever. You could probably use ChatGPT to do it, to type it out as well, I guess. But I just thought about how I have apps like Motion is a good calendar app to add things to do, list, say what the duration is, say what the priority is and then find it, puts it on your calendar. But I just felt like every time I do a brain dump, I put it all out there, and there's so much of it that I never plan into my time. Even if it's not due right now, it's still something that has to get done. So if I could brain dump and it would organize. Those things for me, that'd be so cool. But I was like, well, Tommy wouldn't build a calendar app, and there are things like this, so that's why I thought it was a dumb idea to bring it up. But I did remember what it was, so I wanted to say it. It was about brain. Dumping your to do list and then having that brain dump actually be turned into something useful. For you to navigate. Maybe you just categorizes it. Maybe it helps you identify the priority quickly, like swiping left and right. Is this need to get done now or later? And then it adds it into a calendar. I don't know. But I like doing brain dumps. But then I have this whole list of stuff to do and I either lose the list or forget I made it or whatever. It never goes into anything. So that's that.

Speaker

Jeanna

Turn 2

Okay, I'm going to share this with Tommy, but just hearing you talk about that made me have a couple questions because I feel like this is very useful. And we've tried motion, and I didn't like motion because it cluttered the shit out of my Google Calendar. But I want to use it for everything. Everything. Not just work, not just extracurriculars, not just personal, like, all of it. Would something like that. From I guess your perspective work if it integrated with calendar, but not as taking up space on your calendar, but as setting tasks on your calendar or time blocking your calendar, instead of just like putting this whole rambling running to do list with guesstimations of how long things take. What do you. I don't know. I'm brain dumping back to you because I feel like this would be really useful because I do the same thing. I'm like, okay, let me consolidate these 45 post it notes into a to do list and see what's done and see what's not. And then I'll feel better because all my post it notes are gone but nothing got done because now I just consolidated a list. So yeah, feedback.

Speaker

Marra

Turn 3

I feel like the app could bring your actual calendar into play, but it doesn’t affect your calendar. Like you go into the app to look at your todos but you look at your actual calendar for events you have. I think your actual calendar needs to be kept in tact, but this is a todos calendar that shifts and moves all the time like motion does by keeping your actual calendar in mind when shifting things

Speaker

Jeanna

Turn 4

Hmmm ok. Lemme see what Tommy's mind does. I think im picturing a mobile app that is soooo basic. Like you open it and its a nic button or a free text space that says "tell me whats in your brain" or something and you just ramble. Then you have like a master task list that can promt you with questions like "this or that" in regards to whats higher priority so that it can gain context and prioritize according to you. It can asl take from the "brain dump" contect if you verbalize something is important. Would that be close to what youre thinking?

Speaker

Marra

Turn 5

I think basic is good. The biggest thing I’m stuck on is how does it handle tasks I’ve identified. Does the ask app if I completed them? Does it keep it on a running list? Before I do a brain dump, does it ask which of these things are still in play?

But yes to the “this or that” part of it. Like a quick game. 2-3 minutes brain dumping. 2-3 minutes quickly swiping through priority. Done. And then just need to figure out time spent on telling the app what has been completed

Speaker

Jeanna

Turn 6

Yeah, I don't know if you want, like, a push notification thing where it's like, hey, you brain dumped this, like, three days ago and said it was really high priority. What the hell are you doing? Or if it's something that gives you a daily brief, like, here are your top priorities. If you have extra time. Here are your secondary priorities. And then at 7pM or say, a time that you can pick, it'll prompt you at night, like, hey, do you want to run through a couple things to prioritize? And that's when that this or that thing can happen in addition to directly after a brain. Dumping it can ask, do you want to go through it quick this or that exercise to prioritize or something? But I don't know. I'm picturing, like, I don't know if you use tasks on Google Calendar, but you put them in your Calendar so they're there, you see them and then it's just like a button, like a radio button that you check when it's done, but they float. Like if it wasn't done today.

It'll be on your tomorrow, but like as an all day task because there's no assigned time.

And then, like other people looking at your calendar, it doesn't take up time like busy time. So I had a problem with motion because I didn't like that it changed my calendar. I had a big problem with that.

And I wasn't fully willing to integrate it, so I wasn't allowing it to send emails and telling people, hey, we got to reschedule. I don't want this app to do that. I want this app to kind of, like, mesh together, because I already use my Google app, and I'm saying I want just because I'm thinking about your idea and how I would use it, but, like.

I want your feedback too.

I kind of am understanding what you're saying. Yeah, kind of let it use your calendar, but don't let it change your calendar, but kind of integrate it so it's in one place. I don't know. That's my brain dump back to you.

Speaker

Marra

Turn 7

Okay. So. Yes. I do not want it to change my calendar. Like, for example.

We have the steps and strides virtual thing at 5:30 on Tuesday. I don't, I don't want my top priority to do to ever affect anything that's established on my actual Google calendar.

But I do like how motion if you didn't indicate that you got it done, kept it moving forward so that if I said this was a high priority Sunday night, it would. It would be.

If I looked at my app calendar.

Would say work on this on Monday. I think I like your idea of maybe an all day task.

Maybe it just looks like it's on Monday.

But it isn't at, you know, work on this at 4:30pm it's just something that I'm planning on doing on Monday.

That seems helpful.

So if I know.

On Tuesday we have that virtual meeting.

But I still need a block to work on priority stuff. Maybe I tell it that I want to work on priority stuff from 7:30 to 8:30 when I'm done with.

My meetings.

That's kind of what I'm thinking. Love the push notification idea of reminding myself to hey.

Let's, let's look quick about stuff that you got done or stuff for tomorrow. Let's, let's keep this updated. Let's keep it going. A running to do list that isn't a random post it note somewhere in the world, but it's a running tab of all the things that are bothering your brain.

And the itch that it scratches to acknowledge I did or didn't get it done. I love that.

I wanted to make a list. I want you to be able to play this or that, to prioritize it. I want you to be able to acknowledge when things are done so that the list doesn't forget them, but you can always add to it and prioritize.

I want it to be easy to add things to the list.

So that when you play this or that, it isn't overwhelming.

It's dust versus wipe down the table. It's run to the pet store versus hanging the frames.

I don't know. I could just see myself building that out. I don't know if an app can do that.

Can it have? Almost like a March Madness bracket.

Where all of a sudden you get to the end and this thing is clearly the winner of your priorities, and it works backwards from there. I think that'd be so cool.

Speaker

Jeanna

Turn 8

That, like, if you have blockers, like, things you know you have to do, but you just, you just can't bring yourself to do them. Can't bring that. Get the energy to do them. Like, oh, I just don't. I have to do that. I have to type up this whole email and put all these attachments on and send. I just have to do that. And you're just not doing it. And it knows that you have to do it because this app is like, hey, you said this was a top priority. The fuck are you doing? Have it prompt you to basically be like, do you need, like, a funk buster? Or do you need something to, like, make you feel like you can accomplish it so then you can go back and feel better about doing this thing? Basically, like, a distraction to, like, kickstart your motivation? Like, and it'll be like. And then you can say yes or no, and then it'll have, like, backup. Tasks for you, like, cool. Go declutter your cough your cup holders in your car.

And then you can go do that. It'll take you five minutes.

And then you can check it off and feel good about getting something done.

I think that.

That is a feature that would be really nice. But yeah, I don't know how to integrate it into Google Calendar and I again, I maybe not integrate is a good. Maybe that's not the word I want. But like, have it. So I want. I personally, if I'm using this, don't want to have to check.

An app and my calendar for what I'm working on that day. I want to use this app to, like, be like, hey, I have 10,000 things to do, and I'm really annoyed about this, and I can't get that done today, but I have this also on my calendar and blah, blah, blah, and. I have to be respectful of this time and that time. I want to vomit that into that app.

And then have it be like, okay, cool, here you go. And give me like a sheet and that notifications. Or put something as like that all day event on my calendar with just, yeah, check boxes, basically.