Find out what your to-do list is doing to you.
Your task list tells you what's left, not what the shape of the work is costing you: the interruptions, the unplanned “quick favours”, the pressure stacking up week after week. CogniSource measures all of it and shows you the cost while there's still room to do something about it.
Built from 18 months of work journaling that revealed roughly 55–60% of incoming work was unplanned.
Three things your to-do list
never tells you.
A task list shows you what's left. It says nothing about what the shape of your work is costing you. CogniSource reads that structure and computes the pressure from it, not from how you feel, but from what you actually did or have planned to do.
Context switching, measured.
Log interruptions as they hit, with source and duration, and CogniSource scores the fragmentation: how scattered your attention is across projects, how much residue each switch leaves behind, how lopsided your day became. The thing you feel but can't prove, on a number.
Unplanned work, tracked.
Every interruption you log is tagged as planned or unplanned. CogniSource tracks what share of your day arrived unannounced and feeds it straight into your capacity and burnout signals. When the “quick favours” are quietly eating your week, you'll see it before your calendar does.
Pressure, before it's obvious.
Stress carries over. Recovery capacity depletes. By the time it's obvious, it's late. CogniSource accumulates the load week over week and tells you when the buffer is thin, while there's still room to do something about it.
See the workload picture come together.
Follow a real workflow from Today and the Pressure Index into the evidence behind interruptions, unplanned work, project commitments, and the tools that turn notes into action.
And logging it barely costs you a thing.
None of this works if logging is a chore. Even a strong workload system becomes incomplete when capture cannot keep pace with the day. So capture is one keystroke away: a command palette for everything (Ctrl K), quick capture for a passing thought (Q when you are not typing), and @mentions that link people and companies automatically. If you live in Obsidian or Roam, it'll feel like home, and the data the signals need gets captured as you go.
Your second brain remembers the work. CogniSource reveals the load behind it.
Knowledge workers use notes, tasks, projects, contacts, and backlinks to remember what happened, what was promised, and what needs attention next.
But storing the work is only half the picture.
Traditional second-brain tools help you capture, connect, and retrieve what you know. CogniSource connects that same operational evidence across tasks, projects, notes, meetings, interruptions, people, and companies, then turns it into a measurable picture of your workload.
Memory, retrieval, relationships, and context.
Those capabilities, plus workload interpretation, evidence quality, pressure signals, and forward risk.
CogniSource does not only help you organize and remember your work. It helps you see the hidden and often overlooked pressure, cognitive demands, delivery risks, and loss of recovery capacity beneath that work.
Grounded, not guessed.
No mood sliders, no self-reported stress, no AI hand-waving. Six signals computed from your workspace data, combined into a single Pressure Index, each one traceable to published research.
Built on work by McEwen, Bakker and Demerouti, Kingman, Leroy, Shannon, and the WHO ICD-11 framework.
Walk into the update with the week already explained.
Weekly Update drafts a concise spoken briefing from last week's delivery, incoming work, current priorities, blockers, and help needed.
The deterministic Manager Workload Brief turns the same public workspace evidence into a first-person report you can preview, print to PDF, or download as self-contained HTML. Counts stay separate, private items stay out, and every commitment remains tied to the evidence behind it.
Set an unavailable period and the continuity view identifies deadlines, solo ownership, and backup gaps before and during your absence.
See the communication tools →Log it later. It still counts.
Pick any date and fill in what you remember: tasks, meetings, interruptions. Estimated entries are marked as such, so the picture stays honest.
Reconstructed workload is not treated as second-class data. CogniSource uses proprietary workload models to incorporate reconstructed tasks, meetings, and interruptions into its pressure calculations while preserving where the evidence came from. Counts and durations are used directly, while details that cannot be known exactly from memory are handled with transparent, research-informed assumptions.
Free for pilot users.
For life.
You were invited into the private pilot, so your access is settled: free, permanently. Pricing for everyone who comes after launch is still being worked out.
Free for life.
Full access to everything: all six indicators, the live Pressure Index, the capture toolkit, and the included AI features. No card, no trial clock, no upgrade nag. As a pilot user you keep it free, permanently, whatever pricing arrives later.
Coming soon.
Pricing for new users once CogniSource leaves pilot is still being finalised. Pre-launch details are on the way. Whatever it turns out to be, it won’t apply to you: your pilot access stays free for life.
Log a day. See what it tells you.
No pitch, no commitment. The onboarding wizard takes about two minutes. Capture a normal day the way it actually happens, and let the numbers speak for themselves.
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