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Pack · 7 apps

Body & Daily Life

The basics your brain keeps forgetting.

Interoception — the ability to notice your own body’s signals — is significantly impaired in ADHD. Hunger, thirst, the need to move, whether you took your medication: these register as vague or not at all until they become a crisis. These seven tools make the invisible visible, one prompt at a time.

The apps

🌙 Shutdown

A guided end-of-day ritual that closes every open loop: tasks parked, tomorrow primed, tomorrow’s first task named. Gives the ADHD brain a clear signal that work is done — the one thing it struggles to generate on its own.

🥄 Spoons

Budget your finite daily energy in "spoons" — the chronic illness energy model. Plan your day within your actual capacity, not the idealised version. Rest without guilt when the spoons are spent.

🫧 Stim Station

Bubble wrap (with sound), a momentum spinner (with physics), a corner-to-corner sand trail, and guided breathing — all in one place. Somewhere for restless hands, a place to stim that isn’t a distraction.

⛽ Pit Stop

A daily quick check on the non-negotiables: water, food, movement, daylight, meds. Five checkboxes. Takes 10 seconds. Catches the 3pm "why do I feel terrible?" spiral before it starts.

💊 Did I Take It?

One giant "taken today?" answer per medication. One tap to log, with a daily history. No second-guessing, no double-dosing. (Memory aid only — not medical advice.)

🌰 Cache

Log where you stashed something the moment you put it down. Later, search for your keys, your wallet, your charger. One tap logs the location; one search finds it. The ADHD object permanence problem, solved.

🧮 Tally

Tap to count anything — glasses of water, phone checks, cigarettes, steps. A visual daily history grid builds awareness of invisible patterns. You can’t change what you can’t see.

The neuroscience — why this pack works
Interoceptive deficit in ADHD. Multiple studies (Pollatos et al., 2014; Mul et al., 2018) confirm that ADHD is associated with reduced interoceptive accuracy — the ability to perceive internal body states like hunger, thirst, and fatigue. Pit Stop functions as an external interoceptive prompt.
Medication adherence and object permanence. ADHD’s well-documented object permanence deficit ("out of sight, out of mind") applies to abstract objects including scheduled medications. A missed-dose rate of 40–60% is common in adults with ADHD. Did I Take It? replaces memory with a single, unambiguous visual record.
Stimming as self-regulation. Repetitive motor behaviours (stimming) serve a legitimate self-regulatory function in ADHD, raising dopamine and norepinephrine to the arousal level needed for focus. Stim Station provides a sanctioned, contained outlet that doesn’t break the work session.
End-of-day open loops and nighttime rumination. ADHD’s difficulty with "task closure" means unfinished items remain active in working memory, competing for resources and triggering nighttime rumination. The Shutdown ritual forces explicit closure, reducing this load.
Energy dysregulation (the "spoon deficit"). ADHD executive function demands high prefrontal energy expenditure throughout the day, depleting resources faster than neurotypical peers. The spoon model (originally coined for chronic illness) accurately maps this experience. Spoons makes depletion visible and rest legible.
Spatial object tracking deficit. The ADHD brain struggles with spatial working memory (Martinussen et al., 2005) — remembering the location of objects. Cache offloads this entirely to external storage, converting a frustrating daily failure into a trivial lookup.

Body & Daily Life pack — $5.99

All 7 apps in this pack. Direct Mac download. Offline license.