Start This Task
Turns a task you are avoiding into one doable first step
About Start This Task
Start This Task exists for a narrow and very real problem: the task you know how to do, have time to do, and still cannot begin. Task paralysis is not a planning failure, it is a starting failure, and most productivity tools are no help because they assume the hard part is deciding what matters. This one assumes you already know, and that the obstacle is the size of the first move.
You describe the thing you are stuck on in plain language and it returns a breakdown whose first step is small enough to actually do. The vendor describes the approach as co-developed with specialists rather than assembled from generic prompting, and the interface is deliberately thin: one input, a result, no project hierarchy to maintain. There is a separate brain dump mode for the state where the problem is not one task but an undifferentiated pile of them.
You type the task you are avoiding into a single box. The tool returns a sequence of steps, front-loaded so the first one is concrete and immediate rather than a heading like "plan the project". Signing in saves your breakdowns so a task you abandoned yesterday is still there today, which matters more than it sounds for exactly the kind of user this is built for. The brain dump path takes an unstructured list of everything on your mind and sorts it into things that are actually tasks and things that are not.
- •First-step framing - The output is built so the opening action is doable now, rather than a plan you then have to break down again.
- •Brain dump mode - Somewhere to empty an unsorted mental backlog and have it separated into real tasks.
- •Saved breakdowns - Signed-in work persists, so an abandoned task can be picked up rather than re-described.
- •Single input surface - No boards, projects or tags to configure before you get value from it.
- •Free tier before payment - The core breakdown works without a card, so you can find out whether the framing helps you specifically.
Aimed at people who recognise the specific experience of staring at a task they fully understand and not moving. That includes a lot of ADHD and executive-function contexts, students facing an assignment, and anyone with a piece of admin that has rolled forward on a list for weeks. It is not a project manager and does not try to be one. If your problem is coordinating work across a team, this is the wrong tool. If your problem is that you personally cannot start, it is aimed exactly at you.
Worth knowing that the paid tier is inexpensive at $5.90 and the free tier is usable, so the evaluation cost here is close to zero.
Pricing
$0 - $5.90/mo
Free tier available without a card. Paid plan is $5.90. Pricing is listed at startthistask.com/pricing and shows only the two levels.
From the vendor pricing page, 2026-09-22
