Stuck staring at a task you can't start?
That's task paralysis. Your brain sees a wall, not a doorway. Spark turns the wall into one tiny step you can do in the next two minutes — then the next, then the next.
Dump it raw
Type the messy thought. No structure needed.
Get tiny steps
AI splits it into 2-minute actions.
Do one
Built-in timer. One step at a time.
Why your brain freezes
Task paralysis isn't laziness. It's an activation-energy problem. "Write the report" is too abstract for the motivation circuit to fire. "Open the doc and write the first heading" is concrete enough that you actually do it — and once you've started, momentum does the rest.
- The task is too big to picture finishing
- You don't know the literal next physical action
- Stakes feel high, so perfectionism kicks in
- Too many sub-tasks compete for attention at once
The fix: shrink step one
Every productivity book says it. Almost no tool actually does it. Spark exists for this one job — paste any sticky task and get a clean sequence of micro-steps with a timer attached to each. You don't plan. You just do the next tiny thing.
Common questions
What is task paralysis?⌄
The freeze that happens when a task feels too big, vague, or high-stakes. Your brain treats the whole thing as one action and stalls.
How do I break out of it?⌄
Make step one almost stupidly small. Open the doc. Write one sentence. Spark generates that sequence for you automatically.
Is it an ADHD thing?⌄
Especially common with ADHD because of executive-function load — but anyone can hit it. Same fix works.
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