An App for Juggling Multiple Skills at Once
A bandwidth-and-priority tracker that helps people juggling several long-term skills see when they're overloaded and decide what to scale back without guilt.
When working on multiple long term skills, How many skills is too many?
So in the past 3 years I have had this switch flip, Where I want to experience many of the fields life offers, I started with choosing a career(IT Networking), Then a creative outlet(Guitar), And recently i want to add Fencing as a physical outlet, all of that including a job, personal IT projects and studying for Italian for a potential overseas position, I'm worried that my brain is too overwhelmed and wont be able to focus on all of this. Any thoughts on how to handle this? or is this not even an issue?
The problem, in the searcher’s words
I'm trying to build my career (IT), learn guitar, start fencing, and study Italian all at the same time, and I'm worried my brain can't handle it all. How many long-term skills is too many to work on at once? Am I spreading myself too thin, and how do I know what to cut before I burn out or start dropping things that actually matter to me?
The fear isn't lack of motivation — it's the opposite. Every time I commit to something new I promise myself I'll stick with it, so I don't want to just quit things. I need a way to know when I'm overextended and which commitments to scale back without feeling like I'm failing myself.
What the thread shows
The thread shows one person's real anxiety about cognitive overload from parallel skill-building, but the discussion stays at the level of generic life advice (prioritize, expect some failure) rather than surfacing a shared, recurring pain point across multiple people.
“I'm worried that my brain is too overwhelmed and wont be able to focus on all of this.”
“Every new thing i try to take on i make it a promise to myself that i will stick to it which is why its hard for me to let go of something after I've put my mind to it, I'm concerned however that if i keep this up ill run out of bandwidth and simply start dropping things that mattered to me.”
“Usually people who try and do all that concurrently, fail.”
“Prioritize by importance. It's A-OK to let the less important stuff slide.”
Target customer
Who
Self-improvement-driven adults trying to build 3+ long-term skills simultaneously (a career skill, a creative hobby, a physical practice, a language) alongside a full-time job
Context
They hit this problem when they've stacked several parallel commitments and start feeling mentally overwhelmed, but resist dropping any of them because each was a deliberate promise to themselves.
What to build
- Add multiple active 'skills/goals' with a target time or energy budget per week
- Log actual time/energy spent per skill each week
- Simple overload indicator when total commitments exceed available bandwidth
- Priority ranking so lower-priority skills are flagged first for cutting back
- Weekly check-in prompt: 'keep, reduce, or pause' for each skill
Build note — No integrations required for MVP beyond manual logging; a calendar API integration (Google Calendar) would be a natural later addition to reduce manual tracking friction.
Later, if it lands
Who’s already out there
Gamifies habit and task tracking, letting users track multiple recurring habits/goals with RPG-style rewards.
Gap: Focused on habit consistency and gamification, not on explicitly measuring total bandwidth across long-term skills or recommending what to cut.
General-purpose workspace people customize into trackers, dashboards, and goal boards.
Gap: Requires the user to manually build any bandwidth/overload logic themselves; no built-in prioritization or overload warning for parallel skills.
Demand read
The thread shows genuine personal concern but no statements about paying for a solution, existing paid tools, or costly workarounds, so willingness to pay is not demonstrated here.
Worth digging into before you build
4 to considerNo idea is a sure thing at this stage — these are open questions worth checking yourself, not a verdict against building it.
Thin Source
Only 10 comments, mostly a back-and-forth between OP and two commenters giving generic advice; not enough material for strong signal.
Single Voice
Only OP articulates the specific pain of juggling guitar/fencing/Italian/IT overload; commenters offer general life advice rather than corroborating the same experience.
Generic Idea
Multi-goal/skill tracking overlaps heavily with the saturated habit-tracker and goal-tracker category (e.g. Habitica, Notion templates).
Weak Demand
No willingness-to-pay signals anywhere in the thread — no mention of paying for tools, existing paid solutions, or costly workarounds.