thinking is betterwith someonealongside you.
start by just talking, however messy it comes out. tink turns it into a thread, keeps track while you work, and brings you back when you drift.
the move
i'm thinking about moving into the new place next month.
they need you organised before they'll help.
every productivity app hands you a system and assumes you can run it.
but the hard part isn't knowing what to do — it's doing it in the moment. that's exactly what a task app expects you to bring.
tink starts from the other end.
most tools punish you for drifting.
tink expects it. it holds the thread while your attention wanders, and hands it back whole.
- no streaks, no guilt. miss a day, miss a week. the thread stays warm.
- tink comes to you. a nudge on the widget, the app, or your phone.
- messy in, organised out. dump a tangle. tink sorts it.
- "where were we?" three words restores your whole mental thread.
your brain wasn't built to hold all of this.
none of this is a trendy productivity hack. it comes from what's known about attention and memory, and from what people with distracted minds say works. the more you hold in your head, the less room you have left to think with.
holding a thought takes up room you could be thinking with. putting it somewhere you trust frees that room back up — and this holds for everyone, diagnosis or not.
planning, starting, holding things in mind, sticking with them. these are measurably harder for a lot of distracted minds — and they are exactly what a task app asks you to bring.
a lot of people with adhd say body doubling works well for them — someone simply being there makes starting easier. tink is that presence, without the small talk.
when work gets interrupted, people reliably return to it — as long as there is something to return to. tink keeps the thread warm so there is always a way back in.
a deadline a month away barely registers. one next step, sized for today, is something you can actually act on — so that is all tink ever asks for.
a timed stretch with someone checking in at the end beats an open-ended afternoon. tink runs the session and nudges you when it ends.
starts with the mess
the hardest part is the first sentence. so tink doesn't ask for one.
Most tools want a title, a category, a clean intent — before you’ve even had the thought. Tink takes the dump: half a sentence, three unrelated ideas, a 2am panic. It reads the mess and hands back something you can start from — a thread, a task, a next step. You never face a blank page, because you were never asked to fill one.
does the part you can't
every other tool asks you to organize. that's the exact thing that's broken.
Capture it, name it, file it, remember where it went — that’s the work that collapses first on a bad day, and it’s the work every notes app hands straight back to you. Tink doesn’t. It listens, then does that half itself: pulling the to-dos out of what you actually said, writing the notes, keeping threads alive without you tending them. You think. Tink files.
works beside you
not a tool you use. someone you're working with.
Tink sits at the edge of the screen while you work — holding the thread so you don’t have to, checking back when the timer runs out, nudging you toward a break before you burn out, noticing when twenty minutes vanished into the scroll. Come back an hour or a week later and it catches you up in a sentence. Accountability that feels like company, not surveillance.
makes thinking visible
working memory, on the outside.
You can’t hold an idea, its history, and your next move in your head at once — nobody can, and the effort of trying is the thing that exhausts you. So tink draws it instead: the thought trail showing how the idea moved, notes and lists you didn’t write, a map of everything the thread touched, a canvas to lay it all out. Your thinking, somewhere you can actually look at it.
a session with tink.
you talk, tink tracks. you drift, tink nudges. you come back, tink knows exactly where you left off.
start a thread for whatever you're working on. talk it through. ramble. think out loud. tink follows along, asks a question when it helps, and never interrupts your flow.
as you talk, tink builds your to-do list and thought trail automatically. you don't have to organise — just keep going.
when you drift (and you will), tink nudges you back. not with guilt — with a question. it knows what you were working on and picks up exactly there.
one thread, many ways to see it.
getting it out of your head only helps if you can then look at it. so tink keeps more than one shape for the same thinking — this is the move it just sorted, in each of them.
one card that hands the whole thread back — what you were thinking about, what you were working on, your last thought, and the next step you set yourself.
the first thing you see when you come back. read it in ten seconds and you are in.
with you, everywhere.
a tool you only open once you're already organised misses the moment you needed it. that moment is at your desk at 2pm when the thread has gone — not at a planning session on sunday.
the full thing, in any browser. nothing to install.
available nowtalking is faster than typing when your head is full. hit the mic and just say it — tink writes it down.
available nowtink in your pocket. the same threads, sized for one hand.
coming soona small floating presence in the corner. check in without leaving what you are doing.
coming soonpresent. not intrusive.
being there all day only works if it stays quiet. tink doesn't lecture or push — it reads the moment, sometimes a question, sometimes just "tell me more."
let tink hold the next thought.
tinklet is in early preview — free while it is, and a small group on purpose: enough people to learn from, few enough that the two of us can read everything that comes back. leave your email and we'll let you know when there's room.
