Guides
Everything long-form in one place: how the GTD method works, the psychology underneath it, and honest, sourced comparisons with the apps you might be leaving. Written to be useful whether or not you ever install Mindwtr.
Learn the method
Start here if GTD is new to you, or if it used to work and stopped.
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What is GTD?
The whole idea in five minutes — plain language, no jargon, no book required.
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The Mindwtr Handbook
A working day and a working week, start to finish, in about fifteen minutes.
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When GTD stops working
The walls every practitioner hits — a stale list, a skipped review, a Someday graveyard — and the fix for each.
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The horizons of focus
The upper half of the book almost everyone skips: goals, vision, and the review habit that makes them real.
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Task apps and ADHD
What makes a system survivable when attention and working memory are unreliable.
The psychology
Why a method from 2001 keeps working — with sources, caveats included.
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Why GTD works
Four mechanisms under every rule in the book: open loops, small working memory, external thinking, and trust.
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The Zeigarnik effect
The famous story about unfinished tasks — what replicated, what didn’t, and what to do about 2 a.m.
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Cognitive overload
You can hold about four things at once. Your week is carrying more.
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Distributed cognition
You already think outside your head — the case for treating your list as part of your mind.
Compare apps
Sourced, dated, and honest — including the rows where the other app wins. The full matrix is on how Mindwtr compares.
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Todoist alternatives
Seven apps people move to, each with its catch. There is also a Mindwtr vs Todoist head-to-head.
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TickTick alternatives
What you give up leaving the bundle, and who fits what. Also: Mindwtr vs TickTick.
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The best free task manager
Free tier, free product, or free software — seven apps and what “free” means in each.
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OmniFocus for Linux
There isn’t one. What to do when your trusted system stayed behind on the Mac.
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A free GTD app for Android
The whole method on your phone — Google Play, F-Droid, offline, no account.