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"If it's not in front of me, it's gone": I fine-tuned a 4B model for my friend with ADHD

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend TL;DR. My friend Zee has ADHD. I asked him what actually goes wrong, and he answered in two lines: things he can't see disappear, and the one thing he locks onto eats the whole day. So I built Actually . You brain-dump in your own messy words. A Qwen3.5-4B I fine-tuned on Tinker turns that into tasks, and TabPFN…

My friend Zee has ADHD. When something he can't see disappears, and when something he locks onto consumes the whole day. To address this, I built Actually, a tool that transforms messy brain-dumps into tasks and predicts how long each one will take him. I trained a Qwen3.5-4B model on Tinker to convert brain-dumps into tasks, and TabPFN to estimate task durations based on Zee's historical data. The entire system runs on my laptop, and the whole build cost only $2.81.

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