Mini‑app recommended hacks
These hacks are best as tiny tools: trackers, check-in flows, planners, and prompts. Each link goes to the canonical hack page used by Brali LifeOS for tracking, check-ins, and planning.
118 hacks
Positivity Protocols
People vent but stay stuck; they need a fast way to reframe complaints into small actions and build a daily positivity habit.
Challenge-Based Learning
Learners struggle to turn lessons into real-world, portfolio-proof outcomes and keep momentum without structured weekly challenges.
Flow State Learning for Deep Focus
Distractions and unclear goals derail deep learning; users need calibrated challenge and structured sprints to reach flow consistently.
Learn From Your Mistakes
Students check answers but miss root causes; no simple way to turn mistakes into targeted practice and track improvement.
Skill-Specific Mini Projects
Learners find it hard to turn new skills into practical projects and keep momentum; they need mini-briefs, tracking, and proof-of-progress.
Meet Your Idea Quota
Creators struggle to consistently generate and convert ideas into published work; streaks break and ideas get lost.
Walt Disney Method
Brainstorms lack structure and outcomes; teams need a guided, async workshop that converts ideas into a concrete plan fast.
Make Meetings Work for You
Teams waste hours in long, unfocused meetings. Automate 15/30-min agendas, timeboxing, and analytics to cut meeting time and improve...
Daily Control Check-In
Morning worry loops drain focus; separate controllable vs uncontrollable and auto-convert the controllable into tasks.
Learn to Say No
People overcommit, feel guilty declining, and lack words; get scripts, rules, and analytics to say no confidently and reclaim time.
Reflect on What You Can Control
Stop nightly rumination by sorting your day into controllable vs. uncontrollable and turning controllables into actions for tomorrow.
Memory Snapshot
People forget meaningful daily moments; need a simple, measurable way to strengthen episodic memory and track cognitive fitness over time.
Set Financial Goals
Users struggle to fund multiple savings goals on a paycheck schedule, causing missed deadlines and inconsistent progress.
Unmask Hidden Risks
People misjudge job and financial risk; this provides an ongoing, objective early-warning system with actions to build resilience.
Small Stress, Big Strength
Hard to pick, dose, and stick to small stressors—people overdo or forget, causing burnout and stalled progress.
Gradual Exposure
People avoid fears without a clear plan. They need safe, stepwise exposure guidance and progress tracking to build confidence.
Learn From Others
Generic inspiration isn't actionable. Turn fear-specific stories into step-by-step exposure tasks you can practice, track, and celebrate.
Visualize Your Future Self
People visualize but fail to turn imagery into daily actions, and lack structure and feedback to stay consistent.
Balance Your Life
People lack a simple, recurring system to spot life imbalances and turn insights into weekly actions tied to goals and habits.
Set OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)
Most people set OKRs then forget them; manual updates are tedious and disconnected from daily work.
Reverse Engineer Your Goals
Big goals feel vague and stall; users need an easy way to backcast milestones into weekly tasks and adapt plans as life changes.
Join Accountability Groups
Hard to find reliable accountability partners and run consistent, effective check-ins that drive real follow-through.
Find an Accountability Partner
You lose consistency alone. Pair easily, schedule check-ins, and track mutual progress inside Life OS.
Create a Mind Map
Mind maps rarely drive execution; we turn goal maps into milestones, tasks, and weekly reviews so progress compounds.
Have Check-In Chats
Families struggle to keep consistent emotional check-ins; without structure and prompts, needs go unseen and chats stall.
Do Active Listening Exercises
Consistent active listening is hard without feedback; users need guided reps, partner accountability, and measurable progress.
Practice Empathy
People struggle to show empathy in tough conversations; they need instant coaching to rephrase, reflect, and plan before speaking.
Use Nonviolent Communication
People struggle to express needs without escalating conflict; they need guided NVC phrasing and partner-friendly requests.
Start Conversations Gently
Harsh openers trigger defensiveness. Users need real-time help to start hard talks gently (text or voice) to reduce conflict.
Utilize Aristotle's Persuasion Trio
Professionals struggle to balance credibility, emotion, and logic in emails and pitches, leading to poor reply rates, low trust, and...
Find Simon Sinek’s Why
Professionals struggle to lead messages with purpose; this helps craft and enforce 'why-first' intros that boost clarity, replies, and...
Apply Aristotle's Rhetorical Triangle
Get instant feedback to balance credibility, emotion, and logic so your emails, pitches, and presentations actually persuade.
Try de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats
Meetings lack structure and balanced perspectives, causing bias. Facilitators need a guided, repeatable workflow with shareable outcomes.
Apply Monroe’s Motivated Sequence
People struggle to structure persuasive speeches and pitches; they need a repeatable framework that converts across channels.
Follow Carnegie’s Magic Formula
Struggling to craft concise, persuasive stories for pitches, meetings, and interviews, causing low impact and missed opportunities.
Find Your Why with Sinek’s Circle
Professionals need a fast, repeatable way to craft clear why-how-what messages for talks, pitches, and emails.
Use the Sparkline Model
Turn Sparkline theory into export-ready outlines and slides, helping presenters craft persuasive narratives faster and consistently.
Apply the SUCCESs Formula
Professionals waste time writing messages that don’t stick; they need fast, framework-based feedback to improve copy and drive action.
Create TED Talks
Turning a big idea into a tight, memorable talk—and practicing with actionable feedback—is hard without a guided, repeatable system.
Map Your Mind
Turning scattered ideas into a persuasive talk is hard; we turn mind maps into structured, presentation-ready outlines fast.
Analyze Your Audience
Presenters guess audience needs and waste prep time; they need fast, reliable insights to tailor talks that land and drive outcomes.
Follow a Vocal Routine
Professionals skip vocal warm-ups, leading to strain and unclear delivery. They need fast, guided pre-call routines with reminders.
Use Story Prompts
People struggle to recall impactful stories on the spot. They need a fast way to craft, practice, and retrieve go-to stories for...
Work Voice Magic
Monotone delivery loses audiences; users lack quick, objective feedback to practice pitch, volume, and pace before meetings.
Master Your Story
People struggle to craft concise, relevant stories on the spot—hurting clarity and impact in meetings, sales calls, and interviews.
Give Constructive Criticism
Managers struggle to give timely, effective feedback; we provide structured scripts, delivery workflows, and tracking to reduce anxiety...
Design Multi-Functional Components
Single-purpose routines waste time. Combine tasks into multi-purpose stacks and track an MFC score to get more done without extra time.
Implement Feedback Loops
People get feedback but don’t turn it into weekly experiments and habits, so improvement stalls.
Design Self-Operating Systems
People waste hours on repetitive work without a clear plan or ROI to decide what to automate or delegate.
Use Disposable Parts
Trying new habits feels risky; users need safe, time-boxed trials with metrics and a clear commit/discard decision before investing.
Identify Key Metrics
People struggle to choose and consistently track a few meaningful KPIs; they need guidance, simple check-ins, and weekly insights to...
Communicate Findings
Analysts struggle to turn complex analyses into crisp, exec-ready stories that drive decisions. They need fast feedback and templates.
Stay Updated
Data analysts waste time sifting noisy sources and can’t prove continuous learning to managers or during reviews.
Predict Outcomes
Most people guess outcomes but never track accuracy; no simple way to forecast, resolve, and calibrate decisions to improve choices.
Brand Yourself
People struggle to clearly define and consistently communicate a personal brand across platforms and touchpoints.
Keep Learning
People take courses without tracking ROI or follow-through; they need a way to choose, budget, and measure learning impact.
Weigh the Risks
People rush decisions without evaluating likelihood/impact; they need a fast, structured way to foresee risks and plan mitigations.
Use What You Know
You don’t track outcomes or calibrate confidence, so valuable expertise isn’t leveraged and you repeat mistakes, missing compounding ROI.
Reflect on Actions
You make important decisions but rarely review outcomes, losing compounding lessons and repeating avoidable mistakes.
Make It Work and Look Good
People struggle to balance utility and aesthetics; they need fast, personalized upgrades and shoppable picks without wasting time or money.
Go Green
Eco upgrades feel risky: unclear ROI, rebates, and product choices stall action. Users need a prioritized plan with savings and incentives.
Ergonomic Design
Pain and productivity loss from poor desk setups; teams lack simple ergonomic compliance and visibility.
Master the Basics
Beginners lack a structured way to practice core cooking skills; they need daily drills and progress tracking, not just recipes.
Plate It Perfectly
Sloppy-looking docs and slides hurt credibility. Get fast, objective polish scores and fixes before you share.
Study Micro-Expressions
Hard to read subtle facial cues; need structured practice to build reliable micro-expression skills for sales, negotiations, interviews.
Identify Biases
Unseen cognitive biases lead to poor decisions; users need real-time prompts and a way to measure debiasing progress.
Become Smarter Every Week
Busy professionals fail to consistently plan and reflect on weekly learning tied to career skills, reducing growth and promotion readiness.
Reframe Intent
People react defensively to criticism; need fast reframes and response templates to reduce stress and resolve conflicts.
Part-Whole System Thinking
People struggle to see how parts affect the whole and to verify assumptions; decisions lack feedback loops and calibration.
Check Your Optimism (Optimism Bias)
We default to best-case thinking; need a quick premortem to surface risks and convert mitigations into actionable tasks.
Step Up to Lead
People avoid leadership reps and lack an easy way to track proof and peer validation for promotions.
Get Credit with the Law of Team Dynamics
You do impactful work but rarely get recognized; logging wins and sharing them with the right stakeholders is hard and inconsistent.
Reflect on a Hack
Users complete hacks but skip reflection; they need a 60-second check-in that captures insights, quantifies impact, and guides the next...
Avoid Stalemate: Keep Moving Forward
Stagnation kills momentum; we turn tiny daily actions into a competitive progress score that keeps you moving.
Zero-Sum: Win Without Taking from Others
People default to zero-sum thinking; they need a fast, structured way to craft mutual-gain options for negotiations and conflicts.
Pareto Efficiency: Make Everyone Win
Negotiators struggle to find trades where both sides benefit; they need a fast way to surface Pareto improvements and share proposals.
Chat with Coot.AI: Personal Growth Conversations
AI chats are fleeting; no structured way to turn insights into tracked goals, actions, and measurable progress inside Life OS.
Track Mood and Actions
It’s hard to know which activities actually improve your mood; you need a simple way to log actions and reveal what works for you.
Clarify Your Values
People define values but don’t act on them; no simple system links daily tasks to values or tracks alignment over time.
Build Distress Tolerance
When overwhelmed, users need fast, evidence-based guidance to choose and execute the right DBT skill and avoid escalation.
Face Your Fears Gradually
People avoid feared situations without a clear plan or accountability; they need a guided, stepwise exposure routine with tracking.
Talk to Your Inner Parts
Users need a guided, structured way to resolve inner conflict by dialoguing with their Inner Critic and other parts—beyond basic journaling.
Own Your Feelings
In tense moments, users need a quick way to turn reactive messages into clear I-statements that de-escalate conflict.
Pay Attention to Body Sensations
Vague stress is hard to act on. Map body sensations, spot patterns, and get targeted micro-practices for relief.
Visualize Your Desired Outcome
Generic meditation apps don’t tie visualization to your work. You need pre-event scripts that improve outcomes and prove ROI with real...
Set Meaningful Goals
Goals fail when they aren't values-aligned. Users need a fast way to clarify values and translate them into one weekly action.
Map Out Your Patterns
It’s hard to see how thoughts and actions loop into problems; users need an easy way to visualize and break recurring patterns.
Plan, Act, and Adapt with NET-PROGRAM-START-CONTROL
Tasks stall and plans drift without feedback, causing overwhelm. Users need a simple loop to plan, act, and adjust in minutes.
Identify Core Conflicts
People struggle to see recurring emotional conflicts and enter therapy unprepared; they need clear, shareable insights into patterns.
Reflect on Unconscious Motivations
Automatic reactions feel mysterious; no structured, therapist-friendly way to uncover and track hidden motives over time.
10-Minute Study Sessions
Learners struggle to keep a daily language habit. We auto-build engaging 10-minute sessions from content they already consume.
Weekly Reflection
Learners struggle to measure progress and turn weekly insights into actionable next steps.
Achievement Log: Track Your Milestones
Pros forget wins and dread reviews; they need an automatic, centralized achievement log with manager-ready summaries.
Event Log: Reflect on Key Moments
Unstructured event logs fade; we turn key moments into decision metrics to reveal patterns and improve future choices.
Show Off Your Wins
Sharing progress is clunky and unbranded; users can’t turn social proof into referrals, challenges, or measurable growth.
Spot Common Source Bias
News and research often echo the same source. Users can't easily see shared origins, risking false consensus and poor decisions.
Defuse the Backfire Effect
Defensiveness to opposing evidence harms decisions and teams; users need guided practice to respond constructively.
Challenge Congruence Bias
People reinforce beliefs instead of testing them; they need an easy way to design tests, seek opposing evidence, and track outcomes.
See the Bigger Picture
Teams overestimate uniqueness and miss context. No simple way to map inspirations, comparables, and credits to see work in the larger...
Context Matters
Teams ship misaligned work due to missing context. We operationalize context checks to reduce bias, rework, and customer friction.
Question the System
Employees lack a structured, bias-aware way to propose, test, and win approval for improvements to entrenched workplace systems.
Own Your Wins
Professionals forget undervalued wins, making reviews and promotions harder. Need automated, credible achievement tracking and reframing.
Question Believability
Teams need a fast way to structure arguments, test logic, and document rationale without belief bias, directly inside Slack and Docs.
Embrace Future Growth
Static goals fail as your priorities change; we adapt goals to your evolving self with monthly recalibration and scenario planning.
Question Assumptions About Technology
Stop buying on hype: convert vendor claims into measurable tests and evidence to validate tech before committing budget.
Recognize ‘I Knew It All Along’ Thinking
Reduce hindsight bias by logging probabilistic predictions and scorecards to improve decision quality and accountability.
Ground Your Optimism in Reality
We overestimate timelines and underprepare; need evidence-based buffers and risk plans to avoid overruns and missed deadlines.
Notice the Green Around You
Teams skip restorative breaks; attention narrows. They need guided, measurable nature microbreaks that fit into the workday.
Balance Safety and Risk
When safety increases: - Assess risks: Ask, "Am I compensating for safety by taking unnecessary risks?" - Set boundaries: Stick to cautious habits even in safer environments. - Foc…
Focus on the Bigger Picture
Teams optimize KPIs instead of outcomes. Need guardrails to detect metric drift, add countermetrics, and realign actions to true goals.
Spot and Challenge Hidden Biases
Managers lack a simple, defensible way to check and document bias during hiring, reviews, and decisions to meet fairness and compliance...
Understand Context in Behavior
Managers misattribute behavior to personality, harming feedback, trust, and decisions. Provide context-aware prompts inside daily comms.
Question the Echo
Repeated claims go unchallenged in team chats. Bot nudges for citations, captures sources, and builds a searchable evidence base.
Uncover Hidden Insights
Meetings over-index on common knowledge; unique perspectives remain hidden and untracked, hurting decision quality and innovation.
Credit Where It’s Due
Comms teams risk backlash by omitting pioneers; need automated, reliable attribution and citations in content and policies.
Question Leading Suggestions
You often accept leading suggestions; build a habit to pause, verify evidence, and push back to protect decisions.
Combat the Google Effect
Re-Googling the same facts wastes time and weakens memory. Turn repeats into lasting recall and fewer searches.
Challenge Hindsight Bias
Hindsight bias makes past decisions seem obvious; users lack a simple system to log predictions vs outcomes and learn objectively.