A to-do app for ADHD that shows one next thing

Why most to-do apps don't work for ADHD brains

A regular to-do list assumes the hard part is remembering. For many people with ADHD, remembering is not the bottleneck. Starting is. A screen of forty items asks the brain to choose, rank, and commit before anything gets done. That choice can stall the whole morning.

Red overdue badges and streaks add a second problem. A slipped task turns into a score you failed. The list becomes a record of what went wrong, not a place to pick up again. For many people with ADHD, that shame loop is enough to close the app.

Setup becomes another chore. Filters, projects, timers, and “systems” ask you to build the plan before you can use it. Sequence keeps the pile and leads with one card. Sequence is a productivity tool, not a treatment.

One Up Next card first, not a wall of tasks

The loop is small on purpose. You add the household’s tasks. Sequence keeps all of them. What it leads with is one big Up Next card — the one thing to do now. The rest of today sits beside it as smaller cards, and later work has its own lane further down. Finish Up Next and the next card moves up. You set the order once by dragging cards; you do not have to re-rank the pile every time you open the app.

That is the whole product promise: one next thing, then the next, in the order the household already chose. The rest of the list is still on the board when you need it. It is just not the thing your eye lands on first.

No red overdue badges. No streaks.

Sequence does not mark you late in red. It does not keep a streak you can break. A task that does not happen today is still a task. It stays in Today, in the sequence. When you come back, Up Next is waiting. The only due-date cue is a soft amber outline on a card in a later lane that is due within a day, so it does not sneak up on you.

This is a design choice, not a slogan. The usual productivity stack uses overdue states and streaks as motivation. For many people with ADHD, those signals read as a scolding. Sequence refuses them so the board stays a place you can open on a hard day.

There is no public score, no “days in a row,” and no angry color when a chore slips. The household still sees the work. Nobody is ranked for doing it.

Built for the whole household

ADHD does not live in one phone. Partners, kids, and roommates share the bins, the lunch, and the landlord text. Sequence gives each household member their own color and their own queue, so you can glance at the board and know whose work you are looking at. On a phone you switch people with Viewing as; the TV view shows everyone's lanes at once.

Shared jobs go in a green Together lane — work that belongs to more than one person, visible to everyone on the same plan. One price covers the household. There is no per-person charge and no seat counting. You are not buying a personal inbox and then bolting people on later.

A TV or wall display the whole house can see

Sequence has a household TV display. Open the TV view in a smart TV's browser, cast a browser tab to the TV, or put a tablet on the wall when you want a shared brain in the kitchen. It is glanceable on purpose: names, colors, and Up Next — not a countdown clock and not a public scoreboard.

The TV view shows the same household tasks you see on your phone: each person's lane with its own Up Next, plus the Together lane. It refreshes every few seconds. Nobody has to ask “what’s next?” in a group text if the card is already on the wall. That shared glance is the difference between a personal to-do app and an ADHD household chore app.

Recurring tasks that come back on their own

Bins, rent, a weekly tidy — recurring work wakes up when it is due, then gets out of the way. Completing a recurring task does not close it forever. It rolls forward to the next date on its schedule.

You do not have to rebuild the chore every week. You also do not get a streak for doing it, or a red badge for missing it. The task comes back when it is relevant again, and Up Next shows it when it is time.

Works in your browser on phone, tablet, laptop, and TV

Sequence is a web app (PWA). It runs in a modern browser on iPhone, Android, iPad, laptop, and the household TV. You can install it to your home screen and use it like an app.

There is no App Store or Google Play download today. If you need a native store listing, Sequence is not a fit yet. If a modern browser is enough, one household plan covers every device you already have. The board refreshes every few seconds, so a change on one device shows up on the others.

Optional: connect an AI assistant (MCP)

Sequence has an optional MCP server. If you already work in Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or your own code on OpenAI's API, you can connect it with a key so it can read your list, add tasks, set dates, and check things off — instead of copying the same chore into a second list. You create the key in the app and you can turn the connection off at any time. It works while your trial or plan is active.

The ChatGPT and Claude chat apps can't connect yet. They only connect through a sign-in flow, not a pasted key, and Sequence is still building that. This is optional. Most households will just open the board and do the next card. See how to connect Sequence.

Is Sequence the right ADHD to-do app for you?

An honest fit check. Sequence is built for one next task, shared with a household, without overdue badges or streaks. Other tools are better at other jobs.

Sequence will not replace a tool that breaks big tasks into tiny steps, or a visual day timeline, or a deep GTD system. It is for households that want one next task and a board the whole house can see.

Pricing

Sequence costs $6 per month or $59 per year per household (USD). There is no per-person charge. New households get a 14-day free trial that does not need a credit card. Sequence is available in the United States and Canada.

The trial does not convert unless you add a card and choose a plan. If you subscribe before the trial ends, billing starts that day. Cancel any time from the Billing page in the app (it opens Stripe's billing portal); your plan keeps working until the end of the period you paid for.

Questions

Sequence is a household productivity tool. It is not medical advice, diagnosis, therapy, or a substitute for professional care.