# DuckDoro

> DuckDoro (https://duckdoro.com) is a three-task daily planner and focus timer
> for people overwhelmed by long to-do lists. Users capture unlimited tasks and
> ideas, but commit to exactly three daily intents, mark the hardest as the
> "frog" (done first), and focus in calm 25-minute sessions. No gamification,
> no streaks, no notifications. English and Arabic. Pricing: free plan with the
> full method; premium $5/month, $29/year, or $99 lifetime.

## Product

- [Home](https://duckdoro.com/): what DuckDoro is and how the method works
- [Pricing](https://duckdoro.com/pricing): free forever plan plus $5/mo, $29/yr, $99 lifetime
- [Duck Run](https://duckdoro.com/play): free focus-break mini game and leaderboard

## Guides

- [Three-task planner](https://duckdoro.com/three-task-planner): plan only three tasks a day
- [Eat the frog](https://duckdoro.com/eat-the-frog-app): do your hardest task first
- [Daily focus planner](https://duckdoro.com/daily-focus-planner): plan a day you can actually finish
- [Brain dump your to-do list](https://duckdoro.com/brain-dump-to-do-list): empty your head, keep only three
- [Task paralysis](https://duckdoro.com/task-paralysis): why too many tasks freeze you, and the 10-minute reset
- [How to stop avoiding a task](https://duckdoro.com/how-to-stop-avoiding-a-task): four unlocks for the task you keep putting off
- [Minimalist productivity app](https://duckdoro.com/minimalist-productivity-app): why fewer features finish more work
- [The anti-to-do-list](https://duckdoro.com/anti-to-do-list): capture everything, commit to three, no list-anxiety
- [Pomodoro alternative](https://duckdoro.com/pomodoro-alternative): decide three priorities and a frog first, then run the timer

## Tools & Templates

- [Free toolkit hub](https://duckdoro.com/tools): index of every free tool, template, quiz, challenge, and guide — all usable without an account
- [First Bite](https://duckdoro.com/start): free no-signup tool for task initiation — name the task you're avoiding, get one 2-minute first action plus small next steps, and run a 25-minute timer in the page
- [Brain Dump → Top 3](https://duckdoro.com/brain-dump-tool): free no-signup tool — paste your list, triage into frog/today/later/not-now, leave with a three-task plan
- [Three Things daily planner template](https://duckdoro.com/templates/three-things-daily-planner): free printable planner with exactly three slots, frog first
- [Eat-the-frog worksheet](https://duckdoro.com/templates/eat-the-frog-template): name the avoided task, diagnose why, cut a 25-minute first slice
- [What's Your Frog? quiz](https://duckdoro.com/whats-your-frog): 2-minute quiz — find why you're avoiding a task (fog/spotlight/mountain/stone) and get one first step
- [Daily capacity calculator](https://duckdoro.com/capacity-calculator): desk hours − meetings − interruptions − energy = an honest number of tasks for today
- [Memento Mori calculator](https://duckdoro.com/memento-mori): weeks lived as a grid, no countdown, the Stoic argument for a short daily list
- [Done by Dark challenge](https://duckdoro.com/done-by-dark): free 30-day email challenge — three things a morning, frog first, no streaks or shame

## How to start (guides)

- [How to start anything](https://duckdoro.com/how-to-start): index of first-bite guides — one concrete two-minute action per avoided task
- [How to start my thesis](https://duckdoro.com/how-to-start/a-thesis): It has no visible end, so no amount of starting feels like progress. First bite: Create the file, title it with your working topic, and write one sentence beginning “This thesis argues that…”. It can be wrong. You will change it.
- [How to start my taxes](https://duckdoro.com/how-to-start/your-taxes): You don't know what the first step is, so every attempt to start bounces off. First bite: Create a folder called “Tax — this year” and drop one relevant document into it. One. Then stop.
- [How to start a job application](https://duckdoro.com/how-to-start/a-job-application): The result has an audience, so your brain protects you by keeping it unstarted. First bite: Paste the job description into a blank doc and highlight three requirements you already meet. No writing. Two minutes.
- [How to start cleaning](https://duckdoro.com/how-to-start/cleaning-a-messy-room): You can't see the end, so every start feels pointless before it begins. First bite: One bin bag. Rubbish only. Ten items, then you're allowed to stop.
- [How to start an essay](https://duckdoro.com/how-to-start/an-essay): You're being asked to produce quality before you have clarity. First bite: Question at the top. One bad sentence answering it underneath. Do not edit it.
- [How to send the difficult email](https://duckdoro.com/how-to-start/a-difficult-email): It's short and exposing — the reader's reaction is the whole difficulty. First bite: In a plain note, write the single sentence you're actually trying to say. Blunt. No greeting.
- [How to start studying](https://duckdoro.com/how-to-start/studying-for-an-exam): The syllabus is bigger than the time left, so starting feels like admitting it. First bite: One page. Every topic name on the exam, nothing else. Then circle the one you understand least.
- [How to start my side project](https://duckdoro.com/how-to-start/a-side-project): Planning feels like progress, so the first real step keeps receding. First bite: Create the file or repo and put one real, ugly piece of the actual thing in it. Not a plan document.

## Comparisons

- [DuckDoro vs. Todoist](https://duckdoro.com/compare/todoist-alternative): constraint vs. capacity — storage tool vs. daily decision mechanism, honestly compared
- [DuckDoro vs. Notion as a daily planner](https://duckdoro.com/compare/notion-daily-planner-alternative): opinionated fixed workflow vs. infinitely flexible canvas
- [DuckDoro vs. Forest](https://duckdoro.com/compare/forest-alternative): distraction deterrent vs. daily decision — plus the December 2025 move off one-time pricing
- [DuckDoro vs. Session](https://duckdoro.com/compare/session-alternative): recording focused hours vs. choosing them; Apple-only vs. any browser
- [DuckDoro vs. Llama Life](https://duckdoro.com/compare/llama-life-alternative): per-task timeboxing for time-blindness vs. a hard three-task cap; trial vs. free plan

## Legend Ducks (imagined workspaces)

- [Legend Ducks directory](https://duckdoro.com/legends): imagined DuckDoro workspaces built from documented routines
- [Steve Jobs](https://duckdoro.com/legends/steve-jobs): the 1997 product cut and top-100-to-3 ritual as a daily planner
- [Marcus Aurelius](https://duckdoro.com/legends/marcus-aurelius): Meditations as a Brain Dump, premeditatio malorum as planning
- [Benjamin Franklin](https://duckdoro.com/legends/benjamin-franklin): the famous daily schedule and evening question
- [Leonardo da Vinci](https://duckdoro.com/legends/leonardo-da-vinci): 7,000 notebook pages and the frog he avoided
- [Ernest Hemingway](https://duckdoro.com/legends/ernest-hemingway): first-light writing, stop mid-flow, count the words
- [David Ogilvy](https://duckdoro.com/legends/david-ogilvy): headlines as the frog, deep work far from the office
- [Peter Drucker](https://duckdoro.com/legends/peter-drucker): know thy time, first things first, systematic abandonment
- [Warren Buffett](https://duckdoro.com/legends/warren-buffett): five hours of reading and an empty calendar on purpose
- [Ivy Lee](https://duckdoro.com/legends/ivy-lee): the 1918 $25,000 six-task method that started all daily planners
- [Coco Chanel](https://duckdoro.com/legends/coco-chanel): elegance is refusal — subtraction as a daily practice
- [Albert Einstein](https://duckdoro.com/legends/albert-einstein): fewer decisions, walking to think, one problem at a time
- [Naguib Mahfouz](https://duckdoro.com/legends/naguib-mahfouz): two fixed writing hours a day around a full-time job, for decades
- [Maya Angelou](https://duckdoro.com/legends/maya-angelou): a bare hotel room, a morning block, creation separated from editing
- [Agatha Christie](https://duckdoro.com/legends/agatha-christie): no desk, ideas during chores, seventy messy notebooks
- [Charles Darwin](https://duckdoro.com/legends/charles-darwin): 90-minute blocks, a daily thinking walk, twenty-year projects
- [Nikola Tesla](https://duckdoro.com/legends/nikola-tesla): plan fully in your head before building — the cheapest prototype
- [Ibn Sina (Avicenna)](https://duckdoro.com/legends/ibn-sina): dawn pages, using every small gap, stepping away when stuck
- [Stephen King](https://duckdoro.com/legends/stephen-king): a daily quota, same seat same time, write with the door shut
- [Marie Curie](https://duckdoro.com/legends/marie-curie): patient repetitive focus, honest records, verify before celebrating
- [Beethoven](https://duckdoro.com/legends/ludwig-van-beethoven): a precise starting ritual, morning creation, a notebook on every walk
- [Ibn Khaldun](https://duckdoro.com/legends/ibn-khaldun): a closed door for the big work, method before material, patterns not gossip
- [Umm Kulthum](https://duckdoro.com/legends/umm-kulthum): one prepared event a month, saying no until it is right, rehearsing what you skip
- [Al-Khwarizmi](https://duckdoro.com/legends/al-khwarizmi): turning a mess into ordered steps, naming the method, balancing before pushing
- [Zaha Hadid](https://duckdoro.com/legends/zaha-hadid): doing the work before anyone watches, a short live list, refusing the default
- [Toni Morrison](https://duckdoro.com/legends/toni-morrison): the first hour before dawn, a start signal not a ritual, aiming at the gap
- [Ada Lovelace](https://duckdoro.com/legends/ada-lovelace): the extra work is the work, steps written out in full, knowing the tool's limits
- [Haruki Murakami](https://duckdoro.com/legends/haruki-murakami): the same hours every day, stopping before empty, training the body that carries the work
- [Immanuel Kant](https://duckdoro.com/legends/immanuel-kant): deciding your hours once, scheduling the walk, a small day holding a large project
- [Kobe Bryant](https://duckdoro.com/legends/kobe-bryant): one block nothing can move, fixing the miss while it stings, boring repetition
- [Serena Williams](https://duckdoro.com/legends/serena-williams): the weak shot gets the best hour, notes to yourself, repetition over variety

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