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Olimpo is a productivity app for people who set big goals and get stuck halfway. The person says the goal in their own words, and the app turns it into a plan, shows the task for today and keeps the progress in sight.
I designed the product and its brand and built the app, from April to October 2026.
“Become fluent in English” does not turn, on its own, into what to do on Tuesday morning.
A tool without AI leaves all the planning to the person, and the plan is the hard part.
Every abandoned plan leaves guilt behind, and the next start gets heavier.
| App | AI turns a vague goal into a plan | Gamification |
|---|---|---|
| Olimpo | Yes: goal, projects and recurring tasks | Yes |
| Motion | In part: AI project manager | No |
| Tiimo | In part: plans the day | Yes |
| Goblin.tools | In part: breaks one task | No |
| Todoist | No | A little |
| TickTick | No | A little |
| Sunsama | No | No |
| Habitica | No | Yes |
8 of the 17 apps compared, as each one presented itself in September 2026.
The method comes from psychology: break the goal into steps that fit in a day, make the first one small and show progress on the same day.
The mythology is how the app tells it. The hero’s journey is the oldest way of telling a change, and a climb with a mentor, trials and restarts is more human than a list of tasks. Each name in the app points to a myth and to the research behind the feature.
| Name | In the app | The myth | The research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olimpo | A goal is split into projects and tasks that fit in a day. | Nobody reached the summit of Olympus in one leap. | Behavioral activation: a small step comes before the will. |
| The Oracle | The planner. A goal said in plain words comes back with a deadline, projects and dated tasks. | The Greeks took their big question to Delphi. The Pythia answered in riddles, and this one answers with a plan. | Implementation intentions: a task with a set day gets done more often. |
| Chiron | The coach. When a goal stalls, he leaves a question, never an alert. | Chiron trained the heroes and never fought in their place. | Self-determination theory: the will lasts longer when the choice stays with the person. |
| Focus Mode | A session opens with one minute of guided breathing. | In the hero’s journey, crossing the threshold starts the adventure. | Event boundaries: a marked passage helps the mind switch context. |
| Morpheus’s poppies | Every break is recorded as rest and earns its own achievements. | Morpheus is the god of dreams, son of Sleep. | Sleep restriction studies: too little sleep lowers attention without the person noticing. |
| The 16 archetypes | Each personality type has a Greek deity. The plan makes up for the blind spot of the type. | “Know thyself” was carved at the entrance of the temple of Delphi. | The questionnaire shows a tendency, and the app never treats it as a fixed trait. |
6 → 15out of 16 in the AI test
2 → 15out of 16 in the crisis conversation
16types, each with its article, in three languages
50%of the score comes from regularity
5 minis the shortest session that counts
Each answer of the AI was scored on 8 criteria, 16 points in all. A score under 10 is a bug. The first round found three failures, and each one was fixed and tested again.
The app and its two landing pages share one identity, in light and dark themes: the same three typefaces, the cream palette and the brand orange. The components are documented in Storybook and checked against WCAG AA.
The build refuses a color or a size outside the design tokens, a missing translation and a text written straight in the code.
The app is built in React, and I wrote it with the help of Claude Code.
The app is live, with a demo mode anyone can open. The next step is the beta, and its first usage numbers will come to this page.
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