Question 1

What is Actlyst?

Accepted Answer

Actlyst is a focus-first productivity web app that enforces a strict 3-slot daily focus rule and ships seven prioritization frameworks (Eisenhower, MoSCoW, ABCDE, Value/Effort, Eat-the-Frog, Kanban, Incubator) backed by an automated Gravity Score, plus Pomodoro sessions and ADHD-friendly affordances.

Question 2

How does the 3-slot rule work?

Accepted Answer

The 3-slot rule caps the Today view at three Sacred Slots, meaning you can commit to at most three deep-work tasks per day. This forces ruthless prioritization and prevents the planning fallacy from overloading your schedule.

Question 3

How much does Actlyst cost?

Accepted Answer

Actlyst Standard Operations is free forever. Master Control costs $12 per month and unlocks AI assistants, voice capture and full analytics. Facility / Syndicate costs $29 per month and adds team features. A 7-day Master Control trial is available without a credit card.

Question 4

What is the Gravity Score?

Accepted Answer

The Gravity Score is a deterministic priority metric Actlyst calculates for every task from importance, urgency, due-date proximity, effort, and the optional Frog flag. It automatically places tasks in framework views without manual sorting.

Question 5

What is the Eisenhower Matrix?

Accepted Answer

The Eisenhower Matrix is a 2x2 prioritization grid that sorts tasks by urgency and importance into four quadrants: Do (urgent and important), Schedule (important, not urgent), Delegate (urgent, not important), and Eliminate (neither). Actlyst ships it built-in.

Question 6

What is the MoSCoW Method?

Accepted Answer

The MoSCoW Method is a prioritization framework that buckets tasks into Must, Should, Could, and Won't. Actlyst implements it as a four-column board with a capacity bar that warns when the Must column exceeds available focus time.

Question 7

How is Actlyst different from Todoist?

Accepted Answer

Todoist is a flexible, framework-agnostic task manager. Actlyst is opinionated about focus: it enforces the 3-slot rule, ships seven prioritization frameworks built-in (Eisenhower, MoSCoW, ABCDE, Value/Effort, Eat-the-Frog, Kanban, Incubator), and computes a Gravity Score per task automatically.

Question 8

How is Actlyst different from Notion?

Accepted Answer

Notion is a general workspace and document tool. Actlyst is purpose-built for daily execution and focus, with no document editor or wiki, and adds opinionated affordances like the 3-slot rule, Pomodoro timer, and ADHD-specific transitions.

Question 9

How is Actlyst different from Sunsama?

Accepted Answer

Sunsama is a daily planner with calendar integration. Actlyst overlaps on the daily-planning intent but adds explicit prioritization frameworks, a Pomodoro engine, an automated Gravity Score, and ADHD-specific affordances such as Spool-Up alerts, the Holding Cell, and the Cognitive Shutdown ritual.

Question 10

Does Actlyst support ADHD?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Actlyst is built around ADHD-friendly principles: progressive disclosure, the 3-slot rule to prevent overwhelm, T-Minus Spool-Up alerts for transitions, distraction quarantine during focus sessions via the Holding Cell, and a Cognitive Shutdown ritual for clean end-of-day handoff.

Question 11

Is Actlyst available on mobile?

Accepted Answer

Actlyst is a responsive web application that works in any modern mobile browser and can be installed as a Progressive Web App. There is no dedicated native iOS or Android app at this time.

Question 12

Does Actlyst work offline?

Accepted Answer

Actlyst requires an internet connection because tasks sync in real-time via Supabase. There is no offline mode at this time.

Question 13

What languages does Actlyst support?

Accepted Answer

Actlyst is fully translated into 12 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, Bengali, and Danish.

Question 14

How does Actlyst protect my data?

Accepted Answer

Actlyst stores all data in a Postgres database protected by Row-Level Security policies scoped to authenticated users only, with manual JWT validation on every server function. Tasks are soft-deleted so you can recover any past state via the Chrono-Scrubber.