About Valistia

Suggestion?

The suggestion form is working but, feel free to email me at support@valistia.com, or find me on Twitter (@nycplayed).

Things to be aware of:

The site is open now, and I've gotten some good feedback, and continue to develop it. Please, invite anyone that you think could benefit from it.

Sharing achievements is now done - in order to use it, just set your preferences to allow sharing, and then set any or all of your achievements to "publicly visible" All your activities are also controlled by this setting.

And, I'd appreciate if you make visibile whatever you can, as I think seeing the activity is good for inspiration, and a sense of community/accountability.

You can now duplicate achievements easily - just click on the clone icon () at the bottom of the card.

Valistia is something I'm building to scratch my own itch. I am also interested in the process of building something in public, and responding to user feedback as it comes in.

I have always found it easy to get interested in new hobbies, and difficult to keep up that interest long enough to make visible progress. So this is a tool to help me organize and remind myself about the things I like to do, as well as the things I need to do.

There are a lot of apps that purport to help people (mostly neurotypical) organize and be productive at work, but not so many that focus on the rest of your life, and even fewer that will work for those of us with ADHD. I'm hoping to change that.

The way I use it, is I record all the ideas that pop into my head under activities, as well as all the hobbies and activities I am already doing. Then, whenever I do something towards any of those things, I record an achievement.

Seeing the achievements helps keep me motivated, and seeing the activities helps me remember the things I wanted to do. And the home page always has a suggestion for me when I can't think of anything. Plus I can set SMS reminders for myself, to give me a nudge when I'm distracted.

Anyway, there's not too much happening here yet, but here are some of the things I'm planning to add in the near future:

  • Reminders via email, Twitter DM, and push notifications
  • Integration with calendar apps
  • Ways to share your progress with friends
  • Different ways to calculate suggestions (i.e. going deep vs. going broad)
  • And I'm sure you'll have good suggestions that I'll want to work on, too.