Talk into your phone. KeptMind listens, sorts your thoughts into clear next steps, and nudges you only when it matters.
Routinery for repeatable days; KeptMind for unpredictable brain dumps. These tools solve fundamentally different problems in the ADHD workflow: Routinery provides structure for what you already know needs to happen at the same time every day, while KeptMind captures and manages the unpredictable obligations that arrive between routines. Most ADHD adults need both layers — predictable structure and chaotic capture — because their days contain both types of tasks.
Morning/evening shells in Routinery, mid-day chaos in KeptMind — a common and effective ADHD stack. The routines protect your anchors (medication, sleep hygiene, morning startup); KeptMind handles everything that arrives between those anchors without requiring you to predict it in advance.
The handoff is clean: Routinery fires at fixed times with timed sequences; KeptMind accepts input at any time and surfaces tasks based on energy. There is no overlap or conflict because they operate on different types of obligations — repeating versus spontaneous. The two apps never compete for the same mental slot or the same type of task.
Routinery is built for timed, repeatable sequences — morning medications, evening wind-down, weekly resets. It uses a visual timer and audio cues to move you through each step, which reduces the need to decide what comes next. The step-by-step guidance is particularly valuable for ADHD adults who lose mornings to decision paralysis about what to do first.
The strength is predictability: when the routine fires, you do not need executive function to choose the task — the sequence carries you. This is valuable for ADHD adults who can execute tasks once started but struggle with initiation. Routinery removes the initiation cost for known sequences.
KeptMind handles what Routinery cannot: spontaneous, non-routine obligations. The task that arrives mid-morning, the call you need to return, the thought you had in the supermarket — these need a capture layer, not a scheduled sequence. They are unpredictable by nature and cannot be pre-programmed into a routine. Trying to force spontaneous tasks into a routine builder creates friction and guilt when the routine does not match reality.
The decision is simple: Routinery for tasks you know will repeat; KeptMind for tasks you could not have predicted. Most ADHD adults need both layers — structure for what is predictable, capture for what is not. Running only one creates a gap that the other fills. The question is not which tool is better but which type of task you lose more often.
Routinery runs on clock time — the routine fires at 7 AM regardless of whether you slept well or poorly. KeptMind runs on energy state — log how you feel and the visible task list adapts. On a crash day, Routinery still expects the full morning sequence; KeptMind shows only what matches your current capacity. This difference is not about which tool is better — it is about which type of task management adapts to ADHD variability.
This difference matters most on variable days. If your energy is consistent, Routinery alone may be sufficient for structure. If your energy varies significantly day to day — common with ADHD, especially with sleep issues or medication variability — the energy-aware layer prevents the guilt spiral of failing a routine you cannot currently execute.
The ideal setup accounts for both: Routinery for the minimum viable morning (medication, hydration, one anchor task) and KeptMind for everything else, filtered by current capacity. The routine is short enough to survive bad days; the capture layer adapts to whatever energy remains.