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Best free ADHD-friendly tools for work

Plexii — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 12:00:02 +0000

This is a practical list of free tools for work, grouped by the problem they help with. It is not medical advice; no app treats anything, and what works varies from person to person. Test one thing for a week.

Can't see the first step: Goblin Tools. Its About page says the website is free and will stay free. Magic ToDo breaks tasks into steps and Compiler turns a braindump into actions. It uses AI and the site warns that accuracy varies, so check the steps.
Want company while you work: Focusmate lists three free sessions per week. Sessions are on camera, so mind your room and workplace policy.
Can't get started: Plexii shows a card on a high-stakes desk you have not started: "What would make this 10% easier right now?" with a Just 5 minutes option that starts a five-minute focus session.
Forget what's next: Todoist's free plan (five personal projects, reminders) or Microsoft To Do's My Day list, which resets nightly.
Day has no shape: Plexii's free time-blocking planner runs in your browser with no sign-up and exports to a calendar file, CSV or printable sheet.
Everything lives in different places: one Plexii desk per task, with Focus sessions and a timer widget that beeps in the last minute and sounds an alarm at zero.

Pick the one problem that costs you most, choose one tool, use it on a real task for five days, and decide on day seven. If you have to remember to use it, drop it.

The full post covers each pick, what it leaves out and how to run the one-week trial.

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Plexii is free to download for Mac and Windows: https://plexiidesk.com/download

Plexii vs Arc and browser tab managers

Plexii — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:59:36 +0000

Arc's makers have announced the end: new accounts were blocked on 22 October 2026, mobile sign-in and tab sync end on 23 November, and Arc stops working on macOS and Windows on 22 December 2026, according to The Browser Company's sunset key dates article. The company points users to Dia and says Spaces become Profiles, and that folders, pinned tabs and your data (passwords, bookmarks, extensions, history) import.

If Spaces kept your projects apart, your options are:

Dia, the shortest path if you liked Arc as a browser. Its makers say the Arc features you use are free and the AI is optional.
Tab groups in the browser you already use. Chrome can save them so you can reopen them later; a deleted group is also removed on other devices signed in to the same Google Account. Edge has Workspaces.
A project-space extension such as Workona, which treats spaces as named browser windows and autosaves them when closed. Free accounts have a space limit.
A desk, if the tabs belong to a task with output. A Plexii desk puts a live browser window next to the document, table and notes, and reopens where you left off.

A desk is not a browser replacement. Pages need an internet connection, extensions can only be added from an unpacked folder, and it is not a bulk saver for 80 tabs. Sort them first by what each is for.

Whatever you choose, export your Spaces and tabs, or import them into Dia, before 22 December. The full guide has a comparison table, an afternoon migration plan and links to each product's documentation.

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Plexii is free to download for Mac and Windows: https://plexiidesk.com/download

Plexii vs Raindrop: bookmarks or a desk?

Plexii — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:59:10 +0000

Raindrop.io and Plexii both fix the same annoyance: you found something useful on the web and do not want to lose it. They answer differently.

Raindrop is a library. Per its help centre, the free plan has unlimited bookmarks, collections, tags and devices, collections can be nested, and a bookmark lives in one collection. A Save tabs command files all your open tabs into a collection, tagged with the date. The paid plan adds full-text search, a web archive, reminders, annotations, backups and an AI assistant. Raindrop says archived copies become inaccessible, and are deleted after about a month, if the subscription lapses, so keep an export.

Plexii is a workspace. A desk holds the pages one task needs next to the document, table and notes they feed. Pages sit in a browser widget that remembers where it was, so the desk reopens where you left off. Pages still need an internet connection, and Plexii's help does not describe keeping a copy of a page.

A workable split:

Raindrop for keeping: anything you might want in six months, tagged by topic.
A Plexii desk for doing: pull the three or four pages a task needs onto its desk, with a note on what each is for.
At the end, record the decision and save any source worth keeping back into Raindrop.

The full guide has a table of both tools and a five-minute test you can run on one live task.

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Plexii is free to download for Mac and Windows: https://plexiidesk.com/download

Plexii vs Milanote: which canvas fits your work?

Plexii — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:58:40 +0000

Milanote and Plexii both give you a big open canvas for notes, images, links and files. They are built for different jobs.

Milanote is made for creative planning. Its help centre lists notes, images, to-do lists, links, columns, tables, video, sketches and files on a board, with nested boards, 100+ templates and a free web clipper for Chrome, Safari and Firefox. You can share a board for others to edit, comment or view. Its free plan holds 100 cards and 10 file uploads, so count what a project will need before you commit.

Plexii is a desktop app (Mac and Windows) built around a desk per piece of work. On the canvas you can put a document, spreadsheet or slides, a table that switches between grid, Kanban, calendar and Gantt views, a live browser window that remembers its page, files with previews, and a timer. It also has stickies, a gallery, a mind map and coloured sections.

Which fits:

Choose Milanote when the output is a visual plan: a moodboard, storyboard or client presentation of ideas.
Choose a Plexii desk when the board is a stepping stone to a document or table, such as a supplier comparison or a grant application.
Use both when creative research feeds a business document. Gather in Milanote, then drop the board link onto a desk next to the brief and budget.

One honest gap: Plexii does not document a web clipper. You drag a link or tab onto the desk and it opens as a browser window. For gathering references, Milanote's clipper is the stronger tool.

The full comparison, with a worked rebrand example and a tool-by-tool table, is on the Plexii blog.

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Plexii is free to download for Mac and Windows: https://plexiidesk.com/download

How many tabs do you have open right now, and why?

Plexii — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 08:57:50 +0000

I just counted and I have a frankly embarrassing number of tabs open. Docs in one window, a browser full of references, email waiting for an answer, and chat pinging in the corner, all for one project. Every switch costs a little bit of memory, and I never quite pick up where I left off. I've tried pinned tabs, tab groups and a messy notes file, and each works for about a week. What are your tricks for keeping one project's context together without losing your place?

(We're building a free app called Plexii around this problem, so I'm genuinely curious.)