I've been building a personal life-planning tool called Steady for the past few months. I finally got to a point where it feels worth writing about.
The core problem I was trying to solve: every productivity app I've tried eventually becomes a source of guilt. Streaks break, inboxes pile up, and the thing that was supposed to help me get organised ends up being one more thing I'm avoiding. I wanted something that was genuinely on my side.
The other thing I wanted was a proper AI chat layer. Not just a search box with a GPT wrapper, but an assistant that actually understands your task list and can act on it. You can tell Steady to "add a task to call the dentist this week" or "what have I got on this weekend?" and it handles it.
Some of the cool features:
- real time chat streaming
- supports multiple AI providers (anthropic, google, openai - so far)
- an intent classifier that routes requests to the right tool
Current capabilities:
- create and manage collections
- create and manage tasks
- read emails from gmail
Below is a video showing off some of these features in action.
It's a full-stack TypeScript app — React with Material UI on the front end, Express on the back, PostgreSQL for storage.
Steady isn't finished — but it does work, I use it all the time - maybe it will never finish but slowly evolve with technology.
Some of the features coming soon:
- vector search
- goal tracking
- recurring tasks