I've tried most of the productivity tools including; Notion, Todoist, Things, Obsidian and I noticed that I'd spend an hour setting up the perfect system and end the day having done none of the actual work. The tools kept giving me more: more folders, views, tags, more ways to arrange the same pile of things I was avoiding. Organizing felt like progress while i knew it wasn't.
The real problem was never that I lacked a place to put things. It's that everything I put down just stayed there, competing for attention, until choosing what to actually do felt as heavy as the work itself. More structure didn't fix that, just made it worse.
So I built the opposite.
Overmind does one thing: it forces execution on three tasks at a time, and nothing else. You dump everything out of your head, every thought, task, worry, distraction. Then you keep only what you can genuinely act on today, max three. Everything you don't promote disappears within 72 hours. Permanently. No archive or vault, no graveyard of half-finished intentions to guilt you later.
It sounds harsh, because it is and that's the point. The deletion is the relief, the exhausting weight leaves your head so you can actually start.
Currently in build. Pre-registration is live.
The permanent deletion is the most interesting bet here because it turns constraint into part of the product, not just a UI choice.
From the people who've seen Overmind so far, are they reacting to that as the relief you intended, or is it the part they're most hesitant about?