About

I'm Aseem Taneja. I make things for the web, and Now Do This is one of them. It's a growing set of calm checklists for stressful situations — the kind of moment when you roughly know what to do but can't think straight enough to do it in the right order.

Why I made this

At the beginning of this year our three-year-old daughter, Devi, was bitten by a stray dog. The dog turned out to be rabid and died a couple of days later. Devi is perfectly fine now — but the day of the bite and the weeks that followed were some of the most testing of our lives as parents.

There were things to get right, in a particular order, within a particular window: wash the wound, get to a clinic, start the rabies schedule. The information existed. What I didn't have was a calm, ordered way through it while my hands were shaking. A simple checklist that day would have taken some of the panic out of it.

So I built one. The first checklist here is for a dog bite. The others cover situations with the same shape: high stakes, a clear sequence, and no room in your head to work it out from scratch.

How it works

Each checklist walks you through one step at a time, so there's only ever one thing to read and one thing to do. You don't need an account. If you sign in — with a code sent to your email, never a password — your progress saves and follows you across devices, which matters when a checklist plays out over days.

It's built to stay usable when conditions aren't ideal. A stressful moment often comes with a patchy connection, so the app is made to keep working on a weak network and to hold your place on your device.

Where the guidance comes from

I'm not a doctor, and these checklists aren't my opinion. Each one is drawn from published guidance by recognised authorities — for the dog-bite checklist, that includes the World Health Organization and India's national rabies guidance, among others. Every checklist ends with a page listing the exact sources it draws from, so you can read the originals yourself.

The project

Now Do This is a personal project. It's free, carries no ads, and doesn't track you — the Privacy policy sets out exactly what it stores. If it's ever useful to you in a hard moment, that's the whole point of it.

These checklists are general information, not professional medical or emergency advice. In an emergency, contact your local emergency services. The full version of that is in the Terms of service.

Contact

Questions, corrections, or a situation you wish there were a checklist for: support@nowdothis.org.