Talk into your phone. KeptMind listens, sorts your thoughts into clear next steps, and nudges you only when it matters.
Energy match fights the fantasy that every overdue task deserves equal effort tonight. Low energy shrinks Today to what your brain can actually start. High energy expands the visible list. The same person, different day, different default — and measurably more tasks completed across a typical week.
Pick high, medium, or low each morning. KeptMind filters Today list visibility, nudge intensity, and "draft my week" density accordingly. Critical tasks stay visible even on low days — energy match shrinks the list, it does not hide commitments you flagged as must-do.
Energy is a daily honest signal, not a productivity score. There is no streak counter to break, no dashboard a coach can stare at, no judgment when "bad" is your honest answer two weeks running. The energy log is input the system needs, not output the user has to perform for.
You can override defaults at any time. The "show me more" tap is always one motion away on Today; opening the full backlog is one extra tap. The point is the default, not a lock.
Decision fatigue is steepest at the moments executive function is already low. On a bad-energy Thursday afternoon, asking the user to decide which of twenty-three items deserves attention is asking too much — and the result is dismissal of the entire app.
Energy match removes that decision from the bad day. The system already chose. The user only has to start.
In testing, ADHD users who use energy filtering complete more tasks per week than users running a static list. The mechanism is decision fatigue avoidance — fewer items visible means more items finished. The counterintuitive math: less in equals more out, especially on the days that matter most. The brain that was paralyzed by twenty-three items can act on three.
There is also a guilt-reduction effect that does not show up in raw completion counts but matters for sustained use. The user who sees three items on a bad day and finishes one feels a small win. The user who sees twenty-three items on a bad day and finishes zero feels a wave of shame. Same person, same energy budget, different default — and the second user is more likely to abandon the system entirely.
Capture everything by voice — even on bad days — and let energy match decide what surfaces. You still externalized the thought without committing to do it tonight.
Tomorrow or Later queues hold what was hidden. Review when energy rebounds. Nothing is lost; nothing is shouting on a low day.
Brain-dump mode plus energy match is the combination that removes both the "I forgot to capture it" and the "I am paralyzed by my list" failure modes.
If you have a flat-pace day and the variable defaults are noise. Disable the morning prompt entirely — energy stays at medium, the system runs uniform, and you save a daily click. About a third of users run this way.
During focused project sprints where you want everything visible regardless of mood. Set energy to high for the duration; the system will surface the full list and assume you want it.