From the Willow articles
Your day, without the pressure.
Essays, guides, and founder notes on calmer ways to get things done.
Built for ADHD brains.
Calm planning for task paralysis, time blindness, and the rest.
If you can't do it well, do it badly
The good-enough version of a thing, done today, beats the perfect version you keep postponing. Why showing up badly still counts, and how a heatmap makes that obvious.
· 3 min read EssayWhy Willow has no streaks
A streak motivates you by giving you something to lose. That works, right up until the day you slip. Here’s what we built instead.
· 3 min read Founder noteWhy I built Willow
Every planner I tried eventually started to feel like a person I’d let down. So I built a calmer one.
· 1 min read GuideA gentle way to start a habit
The hardest part of a new habit usually isn’t the habit. It’s deciding, every day, when it happens. Start there.
· 1 min read ADHD managementWhy it always feels like there’s something you should be doing
Most of what you have to do could safely wait its turn. With ADHD, none of it feels allowed to. Where the feeling comes from, and what actually helps.
· 4 min read ADHD managementIf you've never stuck to a planner, it wasn't you
A lot of women come to ADHD planning after years of feeling like the failure in a system that was never built for them. It wasn't you.
· 3 min read ADHD managementWhy you can't start the task you actually want to do
With ADHD, wanting to do something and being able to start it are two different gears. Here's why they slip, and what helps.
· 3 min read ADHD managementYour to-do list doesn't know what time it is
A flat list of tasks hides the one thing an ADHD brain most needs to see: how much time you actually have. Here's the fix.
· 2 min read ADHD managementOut of sight, out of mind
For a lot of ADHD brains, a task you can't see is a task that no longer exists. The usual fix is to leave everything in view. There's a calmer one.
· 3 min read