A local-AI assignment pad

Fanad

Get it out of your head.

A gentle place to put down what's looping in your mind. Just talk to it — no forms, no sorting, no setup rituals. Fanad files what you say, holds it for you, and hands you one doable thing when you're ready. Then you clear it, and it turns the page.

Read the manual

The pad that empties

A pad, not a notebook

A notebook fills up. A notes app wins when the pile grows. An assignment pad is different: you jot what you owe and by when, glance at it, cross one off, and turn the page. The pad empties — it doesn't hoard.

That emptying is the whole point. Fanad's deepest job isn't tracking — it's the relief of putting a looping thought down somewhere you trust, so your mind can stop holding it. Writing it down is the relief, before you do anything at all. It's the plainest move there is: get it out of your head before bed, and let the pad carry it until morning.

The idea in one line

Don't sort — just unload. You say it in your own words; Fanad quietly picks a category and an effort level and files it. Organizing is Fanad's job, not yours.

No nagging by design

No recurring tasks

Recurrence is nagging, and nagging is stress. Fanad never repeats on a schedule. A dated task can be added to your own calendar instead, so anything recurring lives on your terms.

The page turns itself

Stale things rest

Tasks untouched for about three weeks quietly go to sleep, so the list stays scannable and never rots into a guilt archive. Nothing is lost — you can bring anything back anytime.

A "no" is never the end

Refusing a suggestion never fails. Fanad offers something smaller, or nothing at all — and repeated passes lead to a gentle offer to reshape the task, never to pressure.

What makes it different

Four things Fanad holds to

Private & local-first

Bring your own local model

Fanad can run entirely on your own machine — your notes in a local database, a local model (LM Studio or Ollama, bring your own) doing the thinking, no account and no telemetry. How private it is depends on how you run it: the four tiers below lay out the honest trade-offs, from fully private to convenience-first.

Gentle & anti-guilt

Nothing flashes or shames

It never nags, counts you down, or moralizes. A missed day is just a day. Every line is meant to lower the weight of the list, not add to it.

Grounded, never invents

A calm mirror, not an authority

Fanad only ranks and rephrases your own real rows back to you. It never fabricates demands, homework, or advice — you assign, and the app holds. That's what earns the trust that lets you actually put a thought down.

Capacity & mood aware

A page you can face today

A quick mood signal sizes how much of the pad you see. On a hard day it hides the backlog and offers one tiny thing — or permission to rest. On a good day it surfaces the fuller page. It matches the ask to what you have.

How private is it?

Four ways to run it — from fully private to convenient

Privacy isn't one switch. It comes down to three choices: where Fanad is hosted, how you talk to it, and which model does the thinking. Here's the honest trade-off — pick the column you're comfortable with.

Your setup Full privacy Mostly private Performance over privacy Convenience
You talk to it via Your own web app, over your private tunnel Telegram Telegram Telegram
Hosted on Your machine Your machine Your machine A cloud server you rent
The AI model Local (LM Studio / Ollama) Local (LM Studio / Ollama) A cloud AI provider A cloud AI provider
Notes & data live On your machine On your machine On your machine On the cloud host
Who can see your words Only you You + Telegram You + Telegram + the AI provider Telegram + the AI provider + your host
Good when Your notes are sensitive and privacy comes first. You want Telegram's ease, but keep data & AI at home. You want the strongest model and will trade some privacy for it. You just want the easiest start and privacy isn't the concern.

Why Telegram counts as less private: bot messages aren't end-to-end encrypted, so Telegram's servers can see what you send its bot. The web app over your own tunnel keeps messages between your browser and your server — choose a tunnel you trust, since one that terminates TLS could see the traffic. A cloud model only ever sees your prompts if you deliberately turn one on — the LLM_ALLOW_CLOUD switch is off by default.

Who it's for

For minds carrying a lot

If a normal to-do app makes things worse — another wall of overdue red, another thing to organize before you can even start — Fanad is built the other way around.

People buried by lists and pings

For anyone overwhelmed by traditional to-do apps, who wants to off-load without first organizing. You unload; Fanad sorts.

Anxious, looping, tired minds

For anyone who needs to put a looping thought down before bed and get gentle, one-at-a-time nudges instead of a stream of nagging.

Privacy-minded people

For those who want their notes to stay on their own machine, running on their own model, with nothing shipped to a cloud.

People who just want to unload

For anyone who wants to off-load a thought without first sorting it, and get gentle, one-at-a-time nudges rather than a tool that adds one more demand.

How it works

Just talk to it, in three steps

The whole loop is small on purpose. You talk; it holds; you clear; it turns the page for you.

  1. Just talk to it

    Say what's on your mind in your own words. Fanad files it as a task — in your words — quietly picking a category and an effort level for you.

  2. It sorts & holds it

    Your list stays scannable and grouped. When it feels like a lot, ask /whatdo and Fanad hands you one next step, sized to your time, energy, and mood — never a wall.

  3. You clear it, and it turns the page

    Say /done to cross it off. A "smaller," a "not today," or a plain "no" is always welcome. Stale things drift off to sleep on their own, so the page keeps clearing.

Where it runs

It meets you where you already are

One shared brain behind all three surfaces — same text-in, text-out everywhere. Both bots reach out over outbound connections, so there's no public URL and no inbound ports to open.

  • Telegram The primary bot: capture by text or photo, with tappable menus and quick acknowledgements.
  • Slack An optional second channel at full parity — buttons, formatting, and calendar files included.
  • Web A chat interface with Settings, a browser for your own data, and scroll-back history.
To start

Bring your own local model (LM Studio or Ollama) and start talking. Fanad is free to self-host on your own machine — set it up once, then forget the busywork and let Fanad handle the sorting. The full walkthrough lives in the manual.