Your plans are not failing.
They are being parked.
Almost nothing you decided to do got rejected. It got postponed — once, reasonably, with a trigger like “when things calm down” — and then nothing in the world was ever able to evaluate that trigger, so it was never looked at again. INTERKEPT is built around refusing that one move.
A parked item with a vague trigger is how a plan dies
Not dramatically. Quietly, and with your full agreement at the time. The sentence that kills a plan always sounds responsible — and it is unfalsifiable, so it can never come due.
What every other tool lets you write
What INTERKEPT makes you write
“After the December pay run, when the money for it exists”
This is the whole thesis. Everything else in the product exists to make that one exchange survivable — so that saying “not now” twelve times a week costs you nothing, and loses you nothing.
Four states, and time is the only thing that moves between them
On the board. Carrying an urgency score that is recomputed every night from things that are already true.
You gave it a date. It leaves the active list entirely — it is not nagging you — but it is counted, and you can see the whole sleeping set whenever you want.
Its date arrived. It returns to the top of the board with the note you wrote and the number of days it has been due.
Parked with no date, and sitting untouched past 30 days. Not deleted, not hidden — named. Past 90 days it is called rotting outright.
Deferring costs a date and a sentence
The defer dialog will not accept a condition, and it will not accept a date in the past. Both refusals are on the server, not just the form — so the rule holds no matter what is talking to it.
Avoidance is counted, and reported, and never enforced
Every defer increments a counter on that item. At three you are told plainly: mis-sized, or no clear first action — split it or kill it. At five: decide whether it dies.
Nothing is ever auto-abandoned. Abandoning something is a decision, and a tool that makes it for you is one you stop trusting with anything that matters. Pulling an item forward deliberately does not touch that counter either — otherwise the number stops measuring avoidance and starts measuring activity.
Three surfaces, and they are not three to-do lists
Silos — the things that matter
A silo is a standing priority, not a task: Renew the professional licence, Dad’s hearing test. It gets a stable id (IK-CERT-001), a body you can write freely in, and a full version history — every edit snapshots the previous text before it changes, so nothing you wrote is ever overwritten out of existence.
Stream — what happened, in order
An append-only log of thoughts, decisions, sensory notes, defers and captures. Nothing is edited and nothing is deleted. When you cannot remember why you decided something, this is the only honest answer — and it is written automatically as a side effect of using the thing, not as extra homework.
Executive queue — the next physical action
Separate on purpose. Priorities are things you care about; the queue holds the single concrete moves — ring the licensing board — each one carrying its own defer count and wake date. Sorted by how much you have been avoiding it, not by when you typed it.
Urgency is computed, and it always shows its reasoning
Every night each priority’s score is rebuilt from four things that are already true, and the reason is written next to the number — so it is never magic:
- A date you set pulls it up as it approaches: within a week it floors at 85, within two days at 95, overdue or due today at 97.
- Silence cools it, one point per quiet week — so something has to be ignored for a month before it visibly drops.
- Recent work warms it: touched in the last 48 hours, +5.
- Pinned never falls out of sight, and an active priority never drops below 10.
Setting a priority to zero means parked on purpose, and nothing resurrects it except a date you set yourself.
One sentence in, state changed
Type “booked the boiler guy for Thursday, and the passport thing opened today” into one box. It completes the task, opens the priority, and logs both to the stream. You are not filling in a form; you are telling it what happened.
It runs on a local model on our own hardware first, so the ordinary path costs nothing and leaves the building only when it has to. And when the model is unreachable, the sentence still becomes a task — it degrades to capture, never to loss. That is a rule, not a hope: an earlier build failed silently instead, and every message you typed quietly turned into a dumb task while claiming to be smart.
A nightly brief, and one push notification
Every night it rewrites a short honest read of where you actually are — is today heavy, is this a hard week, are you behind — and the one or two things that matter today. Push is a single living status line that replaces itself, not a stack of buzzes.
Built by an autistic ADHD adult, for the specific way that brain loses things
If your problem is remembering to buy milk, a notes app is fine and cheaper. This is for the other failure — the one where you are capable, you made a good decision, you wrote it down, and eight weeks later it is a crisis you had already solved once.
- You defer constantly and it is often correct. The problem is not the deferring. It is that a deferred thing disappears.
- Your working memory is the single point of failure. Everything that lives only in your head is one bad week from being gone.
- You cannot tell what is urgent when eleven things are all flashing. Something outside your head has to hold the ordering.
- Lists make you feel worse, not better. A 60-item backlog is not information, it is a threat display. This shows you what is awake today and hides the rest.
What it deliberately is not
- Not a calendar. It has no opinion about your appointments.
- Not a team tool. Nobody is assigned anything. Nobody is watching you.
- Not gamified. No streaks to break, because a broken streak is a reason to stop opening the app, and this only works if you keep opening it.
- Not a nag. A thing you deferred goes properly quiet until the date you set. That is what makes deferring safe enough to be honest about.
It has been running as one person’s real daily tool for months before being offered to anyone else — which is why the mechanic is opinionated rather than configurable. The opinions are the product.
What we do and do not do with it
It is yours
We do not sell it, mine it for advertising, or train anything public on it. There are no third-party trackers on this page or in the app.
It is isolated
Every read and write is scoped to your account at the database layer, and that isolation is verified by a two-account test rather than by reading the code and hoping.
It is versioned
Editing a priority snapshots the old text first. Nothing you wrote is destroyed by an edit, including one you made at 3am.
It is backed up
Nightly, off this machine. Passwords are stored as bcrypt hashes and are not recoverable by us — only resettable by you.
The free tier is the whole mechanic, not a crippled demo
Deferring, waking, rotting, urgency, the stream, the queue, push — all free, forever, with no card. The paid line is drawn at volume and AI, because those are the two things that actually cost us money to run.
- 12 priorities — enough to genuinely run a life, and honestly not enough to hold everything
- Unlimited tasks in the executive queue
- 30 days of stream history
- The full defer / wake / rot mechanic
- Nightly urgency recompute and push notifications
- The last 3 versions of each priority
- 250 priorities
- Complete stream history, as far back as you have been using it
- AI triage — talk to it in one sentence, and the nightly brief
- Full version history on every priority
- Up to 6 managed profiles — for holding a child’s or a client’s priorities alongside your own, each completely separate
If you lapse from Pro, nothing is deleted and nothing is hidden. The limits only ever block adding. Losing access to something you already wrote down is not an acceptable downgrade — it is how a billing bug becomes data loss.
Every plan you have parked is still somewhere
Give one of them a date and a sentence, and find out how much of it was never actually abandoned.
12 priorities · full mechanic · export or delete whenever you want