You know what you want to achieve.
The Top Drawer gets you there.

I first learned to structure a day as a little girl at Hayfield Montessori School in Louisville, Kentucky. In my first-grade class in 1979, we had little drawers, the kind you’d find in a garage for nails and screws, and each one held a stack of cards with the day’s activities. We started every morning with reading. After that, the day was ours: unstructured and self-paced. When we finished an activity, we turned its card in to our teacher. There was joy in the exploring, the curiosity, the lessons that corrected themselves. We weren’t graded. We simply achieved.

I’ve never found a task manager, calendar, or app that suited me, probably because they impose structure where I’m looking for flow.

For the last couple of years I’ve been building systems that fit how I actually work, using AI. This one I built with Claude Code. But the more I use AI, the more it pulls me away from the grounded, daily intentions I hold for my life. The race to produce consumes me. So I slowed down and made The Top Drawer, to gently remind me of the gap between my intentions and my actions.

It wipes the slate clean each day and leaves me a library of my options. A few activities auto-replenish every morning, whether I did them the day before or not. Nothing shows up past due. Nothing is due. These are simply my intentions for a good day. When I finish something, I rate how I feel I did. For me, three stars is average, one is the minimum, five is outstanding. You might give your stars a different meaning.

And who am I turning my cards in to? Me, of course. My higher self. Every week or month or so, I check in on how I’ve been doing. Am I setting more intentions than I can reach? Can I do more of what I value most in my life, and ease off a bad habit or two?

I think of it as being coached by my higher self. The reflections, week after week, have told me more about myself than any personality test ever has.

- Sandy Martin, Founder