AI Auto-Generated Tasks: An ADHD Creator's Reaction

Out of sight, out of mind

Julie has ADHD and ME, and describes her ability to show up as unreliable. She is not being paid right now — she is quietly building things that can keep working when she cannot: a YouTube channel, a newsletter that isn't regular yet "because I forget to do it."

The pattern she named is the one every ADHD planner has to solve: "If it's not right there in front of me, I completely forget about it — even though I'm actually really passionate about it." The idea doesn't die from lack of interest. It dies from lack of visibility.

Her notes were scattered accordingly — Pinterest, an old Google Keep, a Trello board she set up and never really used. What drew her to xTiles was the promise of one place: a daily board with the personal and health stuff alongside the creator work, plus somewhere to drop links to books, shows, and films, whether for pleasure or learning.

The setup that stalled — twice

Julie's history with the app is very ADHD: discover it in a YouTube video, set up "loads of things," get distracted, lose sight of it for months, then come back and rediscover her own half-built system. "Oh yeah — I've set this up, I've set that up."

Two things were blocking her when we talked. The board she'd built — her version of the Trello board — wasn't connected to what she was actually doing today; she didn't know how to make that link. And she'd recently added a Claude assistant through the AI integration, curious but a little wary of AI, without a clear picture of what it could actually do for her.

The two-way it fits together

Any task with a date — from any board or project — surfaces automatically on the xTiles Planner's daily page. You don't wire a board to "today"; the date does it. And once Claude is connected, it can write straight onto that same daily page.

The moment it clicked

The realization came from seeing a real daily page. Tasks to do, notes, calendar events near the top — and below them a whole section Julie hadn't expected: a short morning brief summarizing yesterday, tasks rolled forward from yesterday to today, a read of the inbox and Slack, meeting notes, and newsletters summarized and then cleared out of the inbox.

She looked at it and asked: "So underneath the tasks and calendar — that's all been added by Claude?" Yes — automatically, every morning. "Oh, wow."

The mechanism is deliberately boring. You set it up once — roughly 10 to 15 minutes with Claude: say who you are, connect the apps you use (Gmail, Calendar, messaging, even Trello), and choose what you want to see from each. Then you schedule it to run at, say, 8am. After that it just happens. Same sources, fresh content, every day, with a few lines on what to do next.

Before, I spent about four hours a day just collecting pieces of information to understand what to do next. Now it takes forty-five minutes. CEO of a cybersecurity firm, xTiles user

The Library wasn't a mistake

Julie had also found the Library on her own and been unsettled by it: "It's just a big list — what the heck am I gonna do with that?" She worried she'd broken something — accidentally pulled everything out of her boards into one giant pile.

She hadn't. The Library is a system page that automatically collects everything you save — every link, article, book, or show — whether you paste it in or use the Web Clipper browser extension, which can also generate a summary as it saves. Nothing was removed from her boards; the Library is just a second way to see the same saved items in one place.

And it doesn't have to stay a list. Add a status field — to read, reading, done — and switch the Library to a Kanban view, and the same items become a board you can move things across. For a visual thinker, that alone changed it from intimidating to useful.

Why this fits ADHD and limited energy

For someone whose capacity is unpredictable, the value isn't automation for its own sake — it's that the remembering happens without her. The brief is built while she rests. The tasks she didn't finish yesterday are still on today's page instead of quietly vanishing. When she opens the app on a good day, the context is already there.

The takeaway

An ADHD visibility system doesn't need more discipline. It needs one surface that stays current on its own — so that on the days you can work, nothing has to be reconstructed first.

Frequently asked questions

Can AI add tasks to my planner automatically?

Yes. With the xTiles AI integration connected, Claude can write directly onto your daily planner page — creating tasks, a morning brief, and notes from your inbox, calendar, and messaging apps. You can schedule it to run every morning so the page is ready before you open it.

What is a good planning setup for an ADHD content creator?

One surface that stays visible and current without effort. In xTiles that means a single daily page where dated tasks from every project surface automatically, plus a scheduled AI brief that pulls in email, calendar, and newsletter summaries each morning. The goal is that nothing important lives out of sight.

I connected Claude to xTiles — how do I get it to build my daily page?

Open Claude and run the daily brief workflow from the xTiles integrations page. It asks who you are, lets you connect the apps you use, and asks what to show from each. Approve the result once, then schedule it to run each morning. Setup takes about 10 to 15 minutes.

Is xTiles hard to use on mobile?

The default canvas view is built for a wide screen. On a phone, switch the page to Feed view in settings — it stacks content vertically so you scroll up and down instead of panning sideways, which is much easier to navigate on a small screen.

What is the xTiles Library and did I create it by accident?

The Library is a built-in system page that automatically gathers every link and resource you save in xTiles. You didn't create it and it didn't move anything out of your boards — it's just a single place to see everything you've saved. You can add a status field and view it as a Kanban board.

Does this work if I can't check in every day?

Yes — that's the point. The scheduled brief runs whether or not you open the app, and unfinished tasks carry forward instead of disappearing. When you next have the energy to work, the current picture is already on the page.