I kept noticing that the thing stopping me wasn't what to do — I knew that. It was the act of starting. So I built Dopastep , and the whole design is about removing reasons not to start. (Disclosure up front: this is my own project. Feedback, including the harsh kind, is why I'm posting.) The two things it does Breaks the task down. You name the thing you've been circling for three days, and it gets split into steps small enough that the first one isn't a decision. ...