The task reads as one blob. Splitting it is work of its own.
"Just break it into smaller pieces" sounds simple, but the breaking-down is executive-function work too. It asks you to hold the whole task in your head, find the seams, and order them, all before you've begun. With ADHD, that planning step is often the very wall you're stuck at. So Beginary does that part for you. The list comes back already written and ordered, every step small enough to walk into, and the screen says plainly that the order is up to you. There's no right one to work out.
The long version: Break it down: how to shrink a task until it starts.
The seams aren't obvious from the outside.
When a task lands in your head, it arrives as one undifferentiated blob. "Finish the grant application" isn't four tidy steps in a row. It's a single heavy word with no visible edge to grab. To break it apart, you first have to hold the whole thing in working memory, turn it over, and find the seams where it naturally splits. That holding-and-sorting is executive-function work, the exact kind ADHD makes expensive, and it happens before you've done a single visible thing.
Then comes the quieter trap: deciding which step is actually first. Two or three feel roughly equal, none feels obviously right, and the choosing itself becomes a small wall you can stall against for a long time. This is why "just break it into smaller pieces" so often goes nowhere. The breaking-down was never the easy part. Beginary lifts that load off you: it finds the seams and orders them, and then takes the choosing off the table entirely, because when any step is a fine place to begin there is nothing left to weigh. There's a longer read on why this is hard if you want it.
From one heavy blob to steps you can walk into.
Nothing’s broken; your brain is fine.
The smallest next action is the whole game. Breaking a task down isn't about mapping every step to the finish. It's about shrinking the first step until it's almost impossible to not-do. "Open the doc and read the first section" is small enough to begin, and beginning is the part ADHD makes hard.
A Tuesday, and the grant application.
You've been meaning to finish the grant application for nine days. Every time you open the folder, the whole thing looms at once, so you close it again and the day moves on. There's nothing lazy in this. The task simply has no handle, and your attention keeps sliding off the flat surface of it.
So you hand it to Beginary in the words you'd actually use: "finish the grant application." A short list comes back, each step with a rough minute estimate and a note that the order is up to you. The first one reads "Open the doc and reread the brief." Two minutes. Not write it. Not finish it. Just reread the brief. You tap the button, and for the first time in nine days, you've begun. The rest of the list can wait. Beginning was the whole point.
Open the doc and reread the brief.
Pull the numbers from the spreadsheet.
Write a one-line summary at the top.
A plain subtask or checklist feature leaves the hard part with you. You still have to break the task down yourself, and then you're staring at a wall of empty checkboxes, each one quietly asking to be figured out. AI Breakdown does the decomposition instead. Rather than a blank list to fill, you get a short one that's already written and ordered, with a rough minute estimate on each step and no wrong place to begin. A doorway to walk through, not a plan to build before you can move.
Once the first step is chosen.
A breakdown hands you a doorway. The rest of the loop helps you walk through it, wherever you are.
One question between you and started.
The first step flows into a single screen with a single button. No picker, no setup. The only goal is the first sixty seconds.
For the moment after the miss.
When a task slips past its time, Beginary stays with you on the Lock Screen and wrist, and one tap drops you back into the step.
The first step, one glance away.
When reaching for your phone is one friction too many, a single tap on your wrist begins the step you were handed.
AI Breakdown, in plain answers.
What is AI Breakdown in Beginary?
AI Breakdown is the part of Beginary that takes a task too big to start and splits it into small, doable steps. You hand it the thing you've been avoiding, and it hands back a short sketch of what is inside it, each step with a rough minute estimate. Figuring out where to begin is the hard part with ADHD. That's the part Beginary does.
How does Beginary break a task down?
You give Beginary the task in your own words. It finds the seams and returns a short list of small, concrete steps, in order. The steps come with rough minute estimates and no forced order, so there is no deciding where to begin, and Start the task takes you straight into it.
How many steps does AI Breakdown create?
A short list. Enough to give the task edges, few enough that the list itself isn't a second thing to feel overwhelmed by. The exact number depends on the task you hand it, but the aim is always the same: small, concrete steps, each with a rough minute estimate. You never have to read a wall of items to find where to begin.
Does it work for vague or personal tasks, not just work tasks?
Yes. You don't have to phrase it neatly or make it sound like work. Sorting out the spare room, replying to the email you've been dreading, booking the dentist: all of it works. You give it the task in your own words, however fuzzy, and it hands back a first step small enough to begin. Personal and half-formed tasks are often the ones that stall the longest, so they're exactly the ones this is for.
How is AI Breakdown different from a normal subtask list?
A subtask list is empty until you fill it, which means you're still doing the breaking-down yourself, the very part that was blocking you. AI Breakdown does that part. You hand it the whole task and get back a short list that is already written, each step with a rough minute estimate. Instead of building a plan before you can move, you get a doorway you can walk through right now.
What if the steps aren't right?
That's fine, and expected. The steps are a starting point, not a verdict. You can ask for a different breakdown, do them in any order, skip the ones that don't fit, or ignore the list entirely once you're moving. The goal was never a perfect plan. It was a doorway in, small enough to walk through right now.
Give it the blob. Get back a first step.
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