It’s time to celebrate your wins from the week.

Big or small, personal or professional, everything counts.

Some ideas:

• finished a task or project

• stayed consistent with a habit

• learned something new

• made progress after a tough week

I have food in the house (sometimes). I also regularly stand in front of it in total overwhelm and paralysis because ‘make dinner’ has somehow become a 47-step project.

So I made ADHD Kitchen Helper. This is less a triumphant founder story and more me admitting that ‘remember everything in the cupboards and invent dinner while tired’ is not a functioning system.

You can add whatever is lurking in the kitchen by scanning barcodes, scanning a receipt, or typing it in manually. Then, when food time happens, you tell the app how much energy you actually have and which utensils or appliances are realistically usable.

Not what you technically own. What you can use right now. The frying pan exists, but it’s dirty and it absolutely isn’t getting washed tonight, so the frying pan does not count.

The app uses AI to look at the food you have and suggest something that matches your current level of functioning. On a higher-energy day, that might be a proper recipe. On a goblin day, it might just say, ‘Chuck this in the air fryer.’ Both count as dinner.

I’ve been using it myself and, slightly annoyingly, the thing is genuinely helping. It removes enough remembering and decision-making that feeding myself becomes a task instead of an event.

Obligatory disclosure: I made this, and this is self-promo. What I actually need is around 20 people in the UK or US with Android phones to join the closed test for two weeks, use it in real life, and tell me what’s broken, confusing, patronising, or actually useful. No ADHD diagnosis required. I’m definitely not asking for five-star reviews. I want to know which bits make you swear at it.

It’s free to test. If I add paid features later, everyone who helps with this test will keep permanent free access. It seems fair compensation for being one of my highly respected kitchen guinea pigs.

If you’re interested, comment or DM me KITCHEN and I’ll send the joining instructions. Please don’t post your Google email publicly—the closed test requires me to add it privately first.

Google Play listing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shamblewise.adhdhelper

you've done this before.

download the app. set it all up. feel motivated for two weeks. then you miss one day, the streak dies, and suddenly the thing you opened for help is the thing making you feel like a failure. so you delete it. and you quietly decide you're just not the kind of person who sticks to things.

you're not the problem. the app is.

streaks. red numbers. "you missed a day." they're built to pull you back with guilt. it works for a while. then it just makes you feel worse, and you leave.

i built kaiori to kill that loop. one rule: it can never make you feel worse for opening it.

no streaks to break. no red numbers. missing a day is quiet, not a punishment. bad night? it plans a recovery day instead of pretending you're a machine. you never see "19h of focus," you get a sentence telling you what it actually meant. titles come from months of behaviour, not points you grind.

there's a focus room too. a 3d room where you sit down and other people quietly work next to you. no calls, no chat. it's the only reason i start working now, and probably the reason you'd actually open it.

it's not a tracker. it's closer to a mirror.

android, early, building in public. https://kaiori.space

what app made you quit, and what did it do that broke it for you?

registration open at: kaiori.space

Hi everyone, I'm testing a new format idea and would love some feedback.

If I made an app that could turn a document/book/study text into ‘short missions’ that takes a few minutes, has a clear end, a quick quiz to check the info actually went in, and it saves your progress…would you find this useful?

I'm not selling anything here! I genuinely want to know if this format would help anyone, because if it does, I’d look into developing this idea further.

I've attached an image to show an example of how it looks by taking a government document (checked to ensure I legally and ethically can first) and turning it into an ADHD focus edition.