Soutenir David Minchev

I tried everything.

Todoist, Things, TickTick, Notion, Obsidian, Linear, Asana — the list goes on. Every time it was the same story: open a new app with fresh hope that this is the one, set it up, migrate your tasks, give yourself a week to adjust. And then realize that something is off. Again.

Either there are tasks — but it's just a list. A bare list with no logic around *how* you actually work with them. No framework. No system. Just a pile of to-dos growing faster than you can clear it.

Or there are notes — but they live somewhere else. In a different app. A different tab. A different subscription plan. And you spend your time not working, but switching between tools, trying to piece together the full picture from scattered fragments.

Or there's both — but it costs like enterprise software for a five-hundred-person company. And you just want to get things done.

For a long time I thought the problem was me. That I just hadn't found the right approach. I read productivity books, studied GTD, built systems in Notion that looked beautiful in screenshots and collapsed within two weeks in real life.

But at some point I realized: the problem wasn't me. The problem was that the right tool simply didn't exist.

Because a good task manager isn't just a list of things to do. It's a system that understands *how real work is structured*. Where there are projects and contexts. Where a task is connected to the thought behind it. Where a note isn't some attached file — it's a full document living right next to the task it belongs to. Where you can think and do in the same place.

I run a team. I have a YouTube channel, software development, church ministry, a dozen parallel streams of life. And each of them doesn't just need a task written down — it needs thinking around that task and context. The ability to come back to it with the right background in mind.

No tool gave me that. Every single one solved half the problem.

So I made a decision that, honestly, surprised even me.

I decided to build it myself.

Not because I wanted to be a startup founder. Not because I spotted a market opportunity on a slide deck. But because I needed it. Because I was tired of working with tools that worked against me. Because somewhere deep down I knew — if this pain exists for me, it exists for thousands of other people switching between tabs and losing the thread just the same.

That's how Vector ToDo was born — a task manager built around the way people actually work. With real notes. With a real framework. At a price that makes sense.

Sometimes the best product is the one you build for yourself.