Why Braindetangler exists

About too many tabs, work that's all connected, and why AI needs context it can rely on.

By Braindetangler

It's the end of a day full of meetings. My notes are in three places. Every meeting left next steps, some mine, some someone else's I will need to hold them accountable for. Tomorrow's meetings need preparing. And under all of it sits the question I can't answer fast enough: what am I actually supposed to do next?

I kept ending up in that moment. Not short on time. Too many tabs open, and nothing that showed me how they related.

What I tried

I tried the big ones: Microsoft 365's tools, Sunsama, Todoist, Notion. Each is good at what it sets out to do. But none of them showed me how my work connects: which meeting touches which project, who's involved, what one decision moves. And most of all: what I could actually drop when it all got too much. That part still lived in my head.

Where it started

The idea started with the concept of loops: the ongoing threads of work and life, linked to each other, with the people involved tagged in them. So you see how everything relates, instead of a long list of tasks.

When AI became part of my working day, the second half of the idea arrived. AI is good at thinking, but when it has to piece your work together from scraps, it guesses. It drops things, or prioritises differently from one day to the next. I wanted a layer AI can work with: one where it knows exactly how everything relates, and reaches the same conclusion every time. Work is high stakes. Context you can't rely on is worse than none.

How I use it now

I dump personal things three to five times a day, whenever they come up. Work I process in bigger batches at the end of the day. Everything gets its place, so the next day starts from a plan instead of a pile.

Timeboxing became part of it too. Each task gets a slot in my calendar, so during the day I only look at what fits today. Everything else waits for a dedicated planning slot, instead of following me around all day.

Where it's going

We're opening Braindetangler to a small group of testers first. Not because we're slow, but because we want honest feedback: what works, what doesn't, and whether it's useful for you at all. "This isn't for me" is an answer we want to hear too.