What is Goblintools? A Beginner's Guide to Tiny Productivity Tools
If you've stumbled onto goblintools and are wondering what kind of website you've landed on, you're in the right place. This guide explains exactly what goblintools is, who it's for, what each tool does, and how to start using it today — without signing up for anything.
So, what is goblintools?
Goblintools is a free collection of small browser-based tools that help your brain handle the parts of life it finds hard. Every goblintool is single-purpose, lightweight, and private. There are no accounts, no subscriptions, no email captures, and nothing is sent to a remote server when you use a tool.
The premise is simple: most "productivity apps" assume your problem is forgetting what to do. The real problem, for many of us, is starting. Goblintools focuses on that — the moment you stare at a vague task like "write the report" and your brain just… won't.
The seven goblintools, explained quickly
- Magic ToDo — Paste a vague task. It splits the task into smaller subtasks with adjustable depth ("spiciness").
- Formalizer — Rewrites any text in a different tone: formal, casual, emoji, sarcastic, snarky, or Yoda.
- The Judge — Scores how friendly or harsh a message sounds before you hit send.
- Estimator — Reads your task list and gives realistic time estimates per item.
- Compiler — Extracts action items from a messy brain dump.
- Chef — Suggests recipes based on the ingredients you have.
- Professor — ELI5 explanations of common topics, drawn from a curated library.
Who is goblintools for?
Anyone with a brain that occasionally refuses to cooperate. That includes:
- People with ADHD, autism, anxiety, or other executive-function challenges
- Students staring at essays they don't know how to start
- Professionals who overthink every email tone
- Parents drowning in the mental load of household logistics
- Anyone who has ever said "I'll do that later" and then not
Why does goblintools exist?
Mainstream productivity tools tend to gamify guilt — streaks, notifications, weekly review emails. For brains that already struggle with consistency, those tools often make things worse. Goblintools takes the opposite approach: it does not try to change your habits. It just removes one specific friction at a time. You open it when you need it. You close it when you don't.
How does goblintools stay private?
There is no backend. Every tool you see is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that runs entirely in your browser. When you paste text into the Formalizer, the rewriting happens on your device. When Magic ToDo saves your list, it saves to your browser's local storage, not a database we own. We could not read your input even if we wanted to — there is no place for it to be read from.
How to start in 60 seconds
Pick the friction you're feeling right now:
- If a task feels too big → Magic ToDo
- If an email feels too harsh → The Judge or Formalizer
- If your day's list feels unrealistic → Estimator
- If your notes are chaos → Compiler
- If your fridge is the problem → Chef
- If you want a quick concept explained → Professor
What goblintools is not
Goblintools is not an AI chatbot, not a habit tracker, not a project management suite. It will not replace Todoist, Notion, or ChatGPT. It is a set of tiny tools you reach for in specific moments, then put down. That is the point.
The best tool is the one you'll actually use when your brain is at its worst — not the one with the best features when you're at your best.
Ready to try? Open Magic ToDo and paste something you've been avoiding all week.
Try the tools mentioned: Magic ToDo · Formalizer · Judge · Estimator · Compiler · Chef · Professor