Benztormr

Benztormr is a brainstorming tool for the moment when an idea is too tangled to act on. You paste the mess. It gives you straight advice, a focused roadmap, and one thing you can do in the next 15 minutes.

The problem

Ideas are cheap. The hard part is the first step. A blank planning tool makes that worse, because now I have to organise before I can start. I wanted something that takes the raw dump and hands back a path.

How it works

Benztormr has four stops, and you can enter at any of them.

1. Dump. If your head is too noisy to write in one go, storm it out against a timer: 2, 5 or 10 minutes, or no timer. Stuck? A spark button gives you a prompt to keep going.
2. Sort. Tag each thought as an Idea, a Do, an Ask or a Drop, and star the ones that give you a jolt. It’s keyboard-first: 1 to 4 to tag, S to star, arrows to move.
3. Pick. Choose one thing to do now. Just one.
4. Roadmap. Claude turns the whole pile into a roadmap with numbered stations. You can ask for changes in plain words (“I only have an hour a day”) and start a 10-minute focus timer on the next task.

It learns how you work

When you ask for changes or delete tasks, Benztormr picks up preferences and keeps them in a short list called “What Benztormr knows about you”. Every new roadmap uses that list. You can read it and remove anything that’s wrong, so the memory is never a black box.

How it’s built

• One HTML file. No framework and no build step. Styles, markup and logic ship together, with light and dark themes.
• Local first. Storms and the profile live in the browser’s localStorage. Storming, sorting and picking work with no AI at all.
• AI where it earns it. Only the roadmap step calls Claude.

What I learned

Constraints are the feature. “One thing in the next 15 minutes” does more for me than any long plan, and showing the user exactly what the tool remembers about them builds more trust than a clever prompt hidden in the code.