MaxDex AI

Guides & Research

Practical guides for searches people already make—then map the problem to MaxDex systems without medical claims.

What MaxDex does

A planner that phones you—and starts the day.

These guides explain the problems MaxDex is built for. The product itself is a daily planner that calls you and tracks energy from your phone.

  1. 01

    Calls you to check in

    Morning briefing and evening debrief as short voice sessions—harder to ignore than a banner.

  2. 02

    Plans around your energy

    Schedules the day from capacity and sleep signals on your phone, not empty calendar slots.

  3. 03

    Keeps habits and goals in one place

    Tasks, routines, steps, and meals sit next to the same plan Max uses on the call.

  4. 04

    Helps when you miss

    If a day slips, Max calls you back to the plan instead of leaving the list to rot.

All guides

Executive Function

Master Guide to ADHD Task Paralysis

A practical guide to executive dysfunction and task paralysis: why planners fail after the list exists, and what actually starts work.

Procrastination

The Intention-to-Action Gap

Why wanting to work is not the same as starting. Implementation intentions, prompts, and the gap planners ignore.

Executive Function

Why Camera Body Doubling Causes Fatigue

Live video body doubling helps some people and exhausts others. Why camera-on focus rooms create cognitive load.

AI Calling

How Voice Breaks Notification Habituation

Why push notifications stop working and how auditory check-ins interrupt attention habituation.

Energy & Sleep

Circadian Energy for Solopreneurs

How unstructured solopreneur days collide with circadian energy—and how to plan around dips without a wearable.

Wearable Displacement

Track Sleep Debt Without Hardware

How to track sleep debt without a smartwatch, Oura, or Apple Watch—and why the number only matters if it changes your plan.

Energy & Sleep

Navigating the 2 PM Energy Dip

The afternoon energy dip is biological. Here is how to plan around it instead of treating it as a character flaw.

Wearable Displacement

Software Readiness vs Smartwatches

Whoop, Oura, and Apple Watch sell hardware readiness. Software-only scores are less precise and still useful for planning.

Planning

Parkinson’s Law Daily Planner

Parkinson’s law says work expands to fill the time. An energy-aware daily planner shrinks the container on purpose.

Planning

Planning Fallacy Productivity Tool

The planning fallacy makes every day too optimistic. Use energy signals and smaller first steps instead of a fantasy calendar.

Goals

Fresh Start Effect Goal Tracker

The fresh start effect makes Mondays and new months feel different. A goal tracker should catch that window with a call, not a forgotten list.

Habits

Implementation Intentions Habit Tracker

Implementation intentions are if-then plans with a meta-analytic effect of d = 0.65 on goal attainment. How to turn that finding into a habit system that fires.

Procrastination

How to Stop Procrastinating

Procrastination is mood regulation, not laziness. What the research actually says about why you delay, and the two changes that reliably help you start.

Accountability

What Makes an Accountability Partner Work

What actually works in an accountability partner setup—and when an app with check-in calls is enough without booking a human.

Executive Function

How to Start Tasks When Overwhelmed

When everything feels urgent, the blocker is choosing, not doing. How to shrink the first move to something almost unrefusable and get an external cue to fire it.

Executive Function

Body Doubling Without Video

Body doubling without video: why presence helps you start, why cameras exhaust some people, and what asynchronous check-ins can replace.

Habits

Habit Stacking That Sticks

Habit stacking works when the cue is real. How to attach a tiny action to something that already happens—and what to do when you still skip.

Routines

How to Build a Morning Routine That Starts

How to build a morning routine you will actually start: fewer steps, a hard-to-ignore cue, and a plan that respects sleep debt.

Energy

Afternoon Slump Productivity

The 2pm crash is circadian, not a willpower failure — it appears even without lunch. What the dip actually is, and how to schedule around it instead of fighting it.

Energy

Sleep Debt and Productivity

Chronic six-hour nights degrade performance as much as two nights without sleep — while barely changing how impaired you feel. How to plan when you are already behind.

Remote Work

Working From Home Without Accountability

Working from home with no boss and no accountability: how to build a daily open/close ritual so the day still starts.

Solopreneur

Freelancer Procrastination

Freelancer procrastination usually hides after the proposal is won—how to start billable work when nobody is chasing you.

Fitness

Meal Planning Without Another Gadget

Meal planner app advice that does not require a new wearable—log food next to your day plan and energy on the phone you already own.

Procrastination

Why Todo Lists Don’t Get Done

To-do lists solve capture and organisation — the two things that were never the problem. What actually fails is starting, and a list has no mechanism for that.

Executive Function

What to Do When You Feel Too Lazy to Work

Feeling lazy is usually initiation friction, not a moral failure. Why to-do lists fail on low-motivation days, and how external voice cues break the freeze.