Six weeks before an FTC submission deadline, I had Google Calendar, Notion, and Apple Reminders open at once — and still missed one. Not because I forgot, but because the one number that mattered was buried inside seventeen other features. I wanted one screen, one number: open laptop, know immediately. No existing tool did that, so I wrote one in a weekend — and then used it every day for six months, which is when it started to grow.
Each later choice was a constraint I chose to defend. Electron kept every byte of data on my machine — true local-first, no account, no outage that makes me miss a deadline. A hand-rolled IndexedDB layer, written from the spec with migration logic by hand, meant I could debug any data issue without reading someone else's abstraction. And a strict 60fps Framer Motion target, because I open this app every single morning, and every slightly-off transition compounds.
