A one-person software studio
Software that works with your brain.
I'm Lydia. I make calm tools for focusing, following through on your day, and remembering the people you care about. They're designed around ADHD and easily-overwhelmed minds, starting with mine, and gentler for everyone because of it.
One calm system
focus, your days, and the people you care about, in apps built to work together.
No streaks, no guilt
nothing to protect, no chains to break. The apps never punish a hard day.
Free to start
every app has a real free tier, and one account works across them all.
The apps
Each one carries a different kind of hard day. Start where your brain needs it. They're free to try, and they get along.
FlowMate
A gentle focus timer that keeps you oriented in time. Spoken updates you choose, ambient sound, and sessions that flex from a quick start to guided deep work, no jarring alarms.
JustToday
One calm plan for today, sized to your energy: one thing on a Soft day, your top three on a Steady one. Start one and it walks you through it, out loud if you like. Everything else waits in Later without nagging you.
Circles
A calm, private journal for the people you care about: names, life updates, and what to ask about next time. For minds that care a lot and forget a lot. Not a CRM.
One Pro for every app
Every app has a real free tier. Pro adds the deeper tools across all of them, for one price. New accounts get 14 days of Pro free, no card required.
Why I build these
Most productivity tools assume steady energy, a reliable memory, and a brain that does what it's told. Mine has other plans, and building around that, instead of against it, turns out to make software with less friction for every kind of busy, overloaded mind.
Everything here started as something I needed myself: a timer that talks instead of alarming, a plan that fits the day I'm actually having, a quiet place for the small details about people I never want to drop. The apps grow through research and through the people who use them.
The goal has never changed: systems that flex with you, not against you.
— Lydia
“Thank you so much for developing these tools. They are truly supportive and provide a much needed reminder to let up on the gas pedal instead of crushing it harder when things don't seem to be working.”
— Christine, FlowMate user