Who it’s for
For people who want the judgment, not another system.
You’ve probably tried a few of these. Here’s where you might be — and the one thing Leverage adds in each case.
If you’ve gone back to Apple Notes
You’re probably not new to task apps. You tried Todoist. Maybe Notion. Maybe Things or TickTick. They all promised they’d make you more productive — once you set up the projects, picked the labels, designed the filters, and learned the system.
And now you’re typing your to-dos in Apple Notes.
That makes sense. Apple Notes doesn’t ask you to build anything. It opens in a second and lets you type. No projects, no tags, no system. You write down what’s on your mind and move on.
The one thing Apple Notes can’t do is tell you what to do today. It’s a great place to put thoughts. It has no opinion about which of them matter.
That’s the part we add. You dump your thoughts the same way you already do — one per line, no setup. We read them, weigh them against what you’ve said matters, and hand you the six that count today, in order, with the reasoning for each. The first one is the next right thing. You do it.
No projects to build. No labels to pick. No system to learn. The simplicity you came back to Apple Notes for, with a coach added.
If Todoist, Things, or TickTick stopped working for you
You did the work. You set up the projects, tagged the tasks, built the filters. Then you opened the app one Tuesday and still didn’t know what to do today.
The tools made you the project manager of your own life. We bet the opposite way: you dump your thoughts, we make the call. The structure gets figured out quietly in the background — you never tag, never pick a project, never learn a system. The judgment about what matters today is ours, not yours.
If your work lives on a kanban board
Kanban is great when the work itself is a production line — a content calendar, a recruiting pipeline, a team’s work-in-progress across columns. It’s the wrong tool for personal productivity because it makes you the project manager of your own day. All the cards, all the moving, all the deciding which one is next.
Leverage is the layer for the half of your life kanban can’t help with. Most kanban users keep Apple Notes open in another tab for personal stuff anyway. We replace that tab.
If you tried Motion or another AI scheduler
Motion auto-blocks your calendar around tasks. That’s real value if your day is a Tetris game of meetings. The catch: you still capture every project manually, configure scheduling parameters, and pay a few hundred dollars a year for the privilege.
Leverage works a layer up. We don’t auto-block your calendar; we tell you what should be on it in the first place. The judgment call before the scheduling call. They’re complementary in theory; for most people, only one of them is necessary — the one that decides what matters.
The one thing every one of these has in common
Every existing tool puts the burden of judgment on you. Apple Notes does it most honestly. Todoist does it with more decoration. Trello does it with more cards. Motion does it with more automation. None of them make the call.
Leverage makes the call. As simple as Apple Notes. Smart as a personal coach. Just dump it — we’ll tell you what to do today.