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Matt Morrison is the founder of Authentic Mess Studios, LLC and the author of Built For Chaos. His experience of adult ADHD informs the emphasis on small starting points, visible choices, and permission to stop.

Personal experience is a starting point for design. It doesn’t establish clinical effectiveness. These apps haven’t been presented as clinically validated treatments, and the sources below haven’t evaluated or endorsed them.

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• Task Breaker matches common task words to written recipes. The optional online mode sends the task to an AI provider for a draft. Both outputs can be edited.
• Three-Pile System holds three active tasks in Hot, with Warm and Cold for later. Date and word rules suggest a pile. The three-task limit is an editorial choice, not a clinical prescription.
• Dopamine Menu organizes activities by time and energy, with optional timers and personal check-ins. It doesn’t measure or promise to change dopamine levels.
• Crisis Protocol shows a fixed sequence of prompts for everyday overwhelm. It doesn’t assess risk, monitor anyone, or contact help on your behalf.

Each app includes a public example generated from the same content its interactive version uses. The examples don’t contain visitor data.

NIMH’s information on adult ADHD describes difficulties with organization and completing tasks. It also explains diagnosis and treatment. We use this as context for the problems people may bring to a planning tool.

NICE guideline NG87 describes environmental modifications tailored to the person, including reducing distractions and adjusting periods of focus. That informs our emphasis on manageable screens and adjustable breaks.

Neither source establishes that our recipes, pile limit, activity suggestions, or reset prompts improve ADHD symptoms. Those are product decisions. A useful personal tool can sit alongside professional care; it doesn’t replace assessment or treatment.

If you need urgent help, Crisis Protocol’s support information explains the app’s limits and points to emergency and crisis resources.

The apps don’t require an account or payment. Task plans, boards, activities, and check-ins are stored in this browser when storage is available. They don’t sync across devices. Crisis Protocol doesn’t save your responses.

Task Breaker’s online mode is optional and off by default. If you enable it, the task you submit leaves your browser for processing. The site also uses analytics as described in the privacy policy. Read the full data and privacy details.

Books and paid printables are separate products, linked to their own stores. Using a free app doesn’t require buying anything. Terms of use · Medical disclaimer.

We update the dates on app explanations when their examples or methods change. A routine rebuild doesn’t refresh those dates. Blog articles retain their original publication dates and show substantive revision dates when available.

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