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dopamine

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a one-page daily list that fires a random reward every time you check something off. variable reward, the only thing that actually works.

dopamine

built this because the to-do app stack is broken. checking a box does nothing for me. paper at least had the strikethrough. so i rebuilt the strikethrough, plus a particle burst, a small sound, a meter that overshoots, and the actual trick: a random pull from a "dopamine menu" on every completion.

the reward is never pre-assigned. it could be good coffee. it could be ten minutes of nothing. you find out only after you've done the thing. that's the loop.

five-for-five triggers an extinction event. you can guess why.

2026 role: built it static html web audio api localstorage no deps
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