DarkMatter

An ADHD-friendly project and task manager built for real momentum.

DarkMatter is designed to help turn large goals into manageable actions without assuming steady focus, perfect estimation, or an uninterrupted workday.

The emphasis is on clarity, recovery, and progress: helping people decide what matters now, break down hard work into something startable, and keep moving even when attention is inconsistent.

Explore features See the workflow Visit DarkMatter

Designed for: ADHD-friendly project and task management
Focus: Starting work, recovering momentum, finishing tasks
Style: Practical structure without productivity theatre

Core idea

Reduce the friction of starting, not just the friction of planning.

DarkMatter is meant to help when work feels shapeless, attention is uneven, and the next step is harder to find than it should be.

Tone of the product

Supportive without being patronising, structured without becoming rigid, and useful when energy is variable.

Overview

Built around how work actually feels when focus is inconsistent.

Most task systems are designed for people who can plan everything upfront, estimate cleanly, and move through work in a straight line. That works for some people and fails completely for others.

DarkMatter starts from a more realistic model. Work is often messy, momentum is fragile, and good tooling should make it easier to re-enter a task after interruption rather than punishing the user for losing the thread.

Workflow

A simple loop for turning large goals into manageable actions.

Core flow

Create a project using a three-letter code such as `WEB`.
Add a few realistic tasks rather than planning the entire project at once.
Use the Today view to decide what matters now.
Break down difficult tasks into subtasks when the work still feels too large.
Track progress by completing one meaningful item at a time.

Why that matters

The system is designed to reduce overwhelm. Instead of rewarding elaborate planning, it helps users find traction quickly and regain momentum when attention has drifted or the work feels stuck.

Features

Support for focus, prioritisation, recovery, and sustainable workload.

Focus Mode

Short, practical concentration support

25-minute sprint timer.
Start and stop task time tracking.
Minimal interface to reduce distraction.

Smart Daily Planner

Help deciding what to do now

In Today, candidate tasks are ranked by urgency, priority, and effort estimate to make the next decision easier when everything feels equally important.

Workload Heatmap

See overload before it arrives

The 14-day heatmap marks projected workload risk as low, medium, or high, helping users rebalance before the week becomes unmanageable.

Rescue Flow

Help when a task becomes sticky

One tiny next action.
A short recovery sequence.
A 5-minute starter sprint to get moving again.

Recurring Tasks

Repeat work without unnecessary friction

Recurrence supports daily, weekdays, weekly, fortnightly, and monthly patterns, with burnout-aware spacing to avoid avoidable deadline pressure and create a bit more breathing room.

Team Signals

Useful coordination without noise

The dashboard surfaces blockers, dependency warnings, and recent activity so teams can spot risk early and coordinate without having to trawl through everything manually.

Built-In Help

Guidance inside the product

Help is available directly in the top navigation so users can get support in context, rather than having to leave the task flow and go hunting for documentation elsewhere.

Contact

DarkMatter is for people who need structure that helps, not structure that performs.

The product is aimed at users and teams who want a calmer, more realistic way to manage work, particularly where attention, energy, and motivation are not perfectly consistent from day to day.

[email protected]