I found out last year I have AuDHD. I've tried a bunch of gamified apps over the years, and seemingly every system that's crossed my path. None of it seems to really work well for me. Most of them seem like they add more work to the work. The "game" isn't fun or the "rewards" aren't anything I care about. The various systems can work while they're novel, but once the novelty fades, they too fade into the background.
Intrinsic motivation is what really makes me work well, along with some novelty. If it's a new problem I'm interested in, I'll work non-stop. Extrinsic motivation only works in short bursts, after procrastination, if it has teeth... "get this done today or you're fired!" These apps tend to be extrinsic motivators without teeth, which makes them easy to ignore.
I wish I had a solution for this problem to offer up some ideas on what could help, but I'm still searching for that myself.
Congrats on shipping the update and if it's helpful for your friends, that's a big win.
> Smart task assists
This seems like a neat feature that could be pretty helpful, but I think I'd need to take it a step further. In many cases I've spent hours watching videos and chatting with AI to breakdown and fully understand what should be fairly easy things, before I feel somewhat comfortable moving forward. Getting just enough to move forward works for some things, but for others, if I don't understand the full thing up front, what can go wrong, and how to mitigate those issues, I can be left in a bad spot. This is where a lot of the procrastination comes from. Doing this much research on something people say should take 5 minutes is exhausting. Even with AI, it can take a lot of effort to get the right information out of it, which it skips over until you really get into the weeds with it and call out the questions that lead to important answers.