I built a task manager in the MacBook notch for my ADHD brain
Details
- External ID
- 46869467
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I built a task manager in the MacBook notch for my ADHD brain
- Website domain
- notchable.com
- Launched
- Feb. 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.28099730458221023
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS notch and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- task manager for macos notch
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A macOS menu bar/notch floating window utility written in Swift/SwiftUI that interacts with Apple Reminders and wraps an LLM/voice API is well within the scope of vibe coding.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: 2do, Eisenhower matrix systems
Concerns raised: Whether AI prioritization is effective compared to manual tagging systems, Lack of direct import from existing task managers
Feature requests: PARA organizational framework (projects + areas layers), Direct import integration from 2do, Fix video play button alignment on landing page
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 315 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #252 of 316 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 97 days after the earliest competitor.
- I built an AI agent to yell at me about my ADHD · hn · 2026-06-30 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Zettelkasten Interactive · hn · 2025-11-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- I turned my MacBook notch into a live Claude Code dashboard · hn · 2026-04-17 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Reader · hn · 2026-09-19 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Kipless · github · 2026-09-11 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Indy: AI support tool for ADHD · yc · 2026-01-15 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- NotchOwl · ph · 2026-09-19 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- I built a "Do not disturb" Device for my home office · hn · 2026-01-03 · 99 upvotes · similarity 0.49
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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