I was neck-deep in papers, bouncing between arXiv tabs, GPT logs, Colab notebooks, and trying to remember which fine-tuning run broke and why.
At some point, it stopped being research. It was just...tab management.
I didn’t need more features. I needed fewer decision points.
Forget Work does one thing exceptionally well:
Through Focus Mode it shows you the one thing you’re working on and hides the 50 that can wait.
No project board bloat.
No clicky dopamine traps.
No color-coded overhead.
You open it. You see your current research task. That’s it.
No “What should I do next?” Just, do.
📉 Why It’s a Relief for Research Work
I’ve tried Notion, Logseq, Obsidian, even GitHub Projects.
They’re good at organizing. But terrible at keeping me in the loop I care about, my focus loop.
Forget Work doesn’t help you manage your backlog.
It helps you ignore it.
I started using it during a literature review sprint and didn’t stop.
Now it’s where I queue paper summaries, benchmark runs, dataset audits one at a time.
It’s like the anti-multitask app. And weirdly, that’s exactly what I needed.
🧠 TLDR for the Distracted AI Brain
If you're deep into LLMs, you know the struggle:
7 browser tabs with Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta papers
3 unfinished Colab experiments
4 Slack channels pinging about model regressions
One rogue fine-tuning job hogging your GPU credits
Research paralysis isn't caused by lack of motivation.
It’s the sheer cognitive overhead of switching contexts.
Let’s fix that.
🚧 What’s Actually Slowing You Down
Too many tasks
Paper to read, code to refactor, model to re-run. You start all. Finish none.
Noise everywhere
Slack, Discord, arXiv updates, X posts. Your attention is rented out by the second.
Shallow work loops
You’re working. But never deeply enough to synthesize or solve.
Mental cache misses
Every time you jump from model logs to a paper, you lose your state.
✅ What Still Works
Time Blocking: Set 90-minute "paper reading" or "experiment review" sprints
Priority Surfacing: Always know: What’s the one thing that matters today?
🧪 Why AI Researchers Need a Different Kind of Tool
We’re not managing tasks.
We’re juggling ambiguity, intuition, and long-term thinking.
We don’t need kanbans. We need cognitive offloading.
We don’t need chatbots. We need frictionless clarity.
That’s what Forget Work nails.
You get:
✅ One task at a time – so you stop task-hopping
✅ Focus Mode – blocks distractions and gently tracks time
✅ Progress memory – picks up where you left off without guesswork
✅ No fluff – zero overhead, zero load time, zero dopamine bait
✨ Why It Works When Others Don’t
Because it…
Doesn’t show you the backlog—just the thing you should be doing
Doesn’t require willpower to ignore distractions
Doesn’t get in your way with configuration or workflows
Lets your brain breathe, even when your research sprint doesn’t
🧠 If You’re Burnt Out From "Too Much AI"
This is for you if:
You’re juggling 3 research threads and not making progress on any
You keep hopping between GPT-4 logs and Mistral papers
You feel like you haven’t had a deep work session in weeks
Forget Work might be the quietest but most effective upgrade you make to your workflow.
👉 Try Forget Work and finally focus!
Relatable to the bone—context chaos kills real research