Why I Built Something That Plans for Me

Hi, I’m Alex. I’m a product designer, and I also have ADHD. Here’s the thing about ADHD: it’s not that you can’t do things. It’s that you can’t start the right thing at the right time. Imagine staring at a list of tasks. Everything looks important. Which do you pick up first? The decision fatigue alone can drain all your energy before you’ve even started.

My days felt like endless lists, no clear starting point.

I tried everything: journals, productivity apps, bullet methods, time-blocking, fancy templates. None of it worked. The plans looked great on paper, but as soon as life shifted even a little, they fell apart, and then I felt behind all over again.

The real bottleneck was deciding what to do next in the first place. This is one of the core reasons to-do lists fail as a productivity tool.

So I asked myself: what if the plan could build itself?

I sketched out a simple prioritisation system. Just a way to score tasks so the important ones bubbled up automatically. I let the system do the sorting, and suddenly, I knew where to start. I trusted the system to show me the right thing at the right time.

From Hack to Real Solution

Here’s where it gets interesting. I realised this wasn’t just a personal hack it could actually scale. So I teamed up with automation experts from the logistics industry. These are people who build systems to keep supply chains moving, no matter what happens storms, delays, unexpected changes.

Together, we built Via:

• It plans for you - automatically building your day, with room for breathing.

• It prioritises for you - no more decision paralysis.

• It adapts in real time - if plans change, so does Via.

Why I’m Sharing This With You

I didn’t set out to build a productivity app. I just wanted to stop feeling like I was losing to my own to-do list. But once I felt the relief of a system that actually worked, I knew I had to share it.

Via isn’t about cramming more into your day. It’s about giving you back mental clarity and time the two things I always felt I was missing.

And if it worked for me, it can probably work for you too.