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22 pointsmartin-buur9 comments

As someone with ADHD, depression and on the autism spectrum, I get in my head A LOT.

Every time I run into an issue I create a tool for it.

- I should post on Hacker News, but my app is not good enough > challenge my inner critic.

- I want to binge eat instead of working > use the catch the urge feature and follow a strategy

- Task is too overwhelming > task breakdown and copy the tasks to my notepad

- I really don't want to get started on a task > procrastination solver

Would love your feedback and any questions are welcome :)

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I was expecting this to just be another AI API wrapper, but I really like Neuro Tools. I’ve been given a whole alphabet to describe my brain, and I think I could actually benefit from using these tools. The most success I’ve had so far in changing my behavior has come through reflection, and I like that reflection is a key aspect of these tools. One idea for an additional tool would be to have a “reality check” tool. I often believe that I can accomplish an impossible amount of work in one day. It would be great to have a tool that helps schedule work in a more feasible way. So if I say, “I’m going to work on this paper for six hours today and eight hours tomorrow,” it would challenge that and say something like “Let’s start with accomplishing two paragraphs today and see what else you’re up to.”

Thank you so much for your kind reaction! Some people could argue this could just be an AI chat bot, and that's true, it could. But I really wanted to build a very specific set of tools with issues that I was dealing with.

I really like what you shared and added your idea to my feedback forum: https://neurotools.featurebase.app/p/new-tool-reality-check

Thank you for sharing this. I probably missed something very obvious, but under which circumstances does information the user enters leave the user's device and go to Google? Is there a heads up before this happens?

This is the best I could find:

"Some NeuroTools features use Google's Gemini AI service. To make these work, we send the relevant input from the app to the Google Gemini API."

I would love to play around with it, but local-only is a must for me.

On that note, would you agree that in principle it should be possible to run this with a local LLM?

Thank you, you're right, I should clarify that further, most features do use AI. Only the task list does not immediately use AI, the rest of the features after the initial input and you clicking submit, do use AI.

And yes, this can definitely work with a local LLM, and there's a high chance I will do that next. I've created a local LLM open-source Mac app last year (paid, but open source, so you could just compile it yourself), you can find it on my profile, so it's definitely something I am very interested in! I wanted to try to tap a broader audience this time so did not release it with a local LLM feature. But very high chance it'll come next!

Related tool that I’ve also found to be useful: https://goblin.tools

Goblin is even better, the backing AI model for example recognizes, and properly responds to (!), foreign language while the OP does not.

For example when I add the major task "Pannekoek bakken" ("Baking a pancake" in Dutch) and break it down into subtasks Goblin breaks down the task in Dutch.

OP's tool does realize what I want to do but responds in English which could be a bit of a problem for people who are not that foreign language savvy.

Fair enough! I can tweak this by adjusting the system messages for the AI, Neuro Tools uses Google Gemini's models that do have support for a wide variety of languages. Goblin Tools uses OpenAI from what I can tell. Thank you for leaving a comment

I can't edit my comment it seems. But I've pushed an update, if the AI detects a different language, it'll reply in that language. I tested with Dutch and German and seemed to work fine :)

So it doesn't use AI? That's a green flag for me.

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