A place to put the mental load down
The remembering, the anticipating, the noticing that the school shoes are getting tight. It's real work, it's invisible, and it's exhausting. This is somewhere to set it down.
You're already running the household in your head. A planner should reduce what you have to hold — not become one more system to maintain.
Mental load
What the mental load actually is
The mental load is the cognitive and organisational labour of running a life: knowing what needs doing, when, for whom, and holding all of it continuously in the background. It isn't the doing. It's the remembering that it needs doing, and the noticing before anyone else has to ask.
It's disproportionately carried by women, it rarely appears on anyone's list of chores, and it doesn't clock off. Most people carrying it don't describe themselves as busy. They describe themselves as never quite able to put it down.
Why more organising makes it worse
The instinctive fix is a better system. More lists, more tags, more colour-coded categories. But every system you build is another thing to maintain, and maintenance is itself mental load. You end up administering the tool instead of being relieved by it.
Dune Seven takes the opposite position. Fewer decisions, less structure to keep up, and a deliberately small daily surface.
Get it out of your head, immediately
Capture exists for the thought that arrives mid-shower, mid-meeting, mid-sentence. Two taps and it's out of your working memory and into somewhere you trust. You sort it later, when sorting is cheap.
Three things, not everything
Each morning Dune Seven asks one question: what matters most today? You name up to three. The rest still exists, still safe, just not shouting. That's your three — everything else can wait.
See where the day actually goes
Today at a glance lays your timed commitments across one calm scrolling strip. Not to optimise you, but so you can finally see the shape of the day and where the open space genuinely is.
A private place to unload
Journal is quiet and entirely private. Sometimes what's weighing isn't a task at all — it's an unprocessed thought taking up the same room. Your Journal, reflections and habits are never shared, on any tier.
When executive dysfunction is part of it
Mental load and executive dysfunction compound each other badly. When working memory is already unreliable, holding a running household index is exhausting in a way that's difficult to explain to anyone who hasn't done it. Dune Seven's energy modes and task breakdown tools were built for exactly that overlap.
What helps
Built to hold things so you don’t have to
Capture
Two taps to get a thought out of your head. Sort it when sorting is cheap.
What matters most
Three priorities a day. Everything else stays captured and quiet.
Today at a glance
One calm strip showing where your time actually goes.
Journal
Private, quiet, never shared. For what isn’t a task.
Repeating routines
Set the load-bearing routines once and stop re-remembering them.
Energy Mirror
See the real shape of your capacity across the month.
Questions
Mental load questions
Isn't this just another app to maintain?
That's the risk with most of them, and it's the thing Dune Seven is designed against. There are no projects to configure, no tags to invent and no folder structures. Capture a thought in two taps, name three priorities a day, and that's the whole system.
Can my partner see what I'm carrying?
A shared-visibility feature is planned so the people you live with can see where you're at without you having to find the energy to explain. Your Journal, reflections and habits are never included, no matter what.
Is it only for mothers?
No. Mental load falls heavily on mothers and on women generally, but it lands on anyone who has become the default rememberer for a household, a team or a family.
What does it cost?
There's a permanently free tier with no card required. Pro is A$69.99 a year or A$12.99 a month, and Lifetime is a single A$129.99.
Also read
ADHD & executive dysfunction
Planning paralysis, time blindness, task initiation — designed around these, not in spite of them.
Burnout & overwhelm
When the to-do list itself has become the thing you can’t face.
Postpartum
Built out of a real postpartum experience. Plan for where you actually are.
Set it down somewhere you trust
Free tier, forever. Nothing you write is ever deleted or held back from you.