A reverse to-do list with a pet that's secretly you.
You don't log what you have to do. You log what you already did, then you feed a little guy who is, plot twist, you. The version of you you'd actually be nice to.
🐶 woof!
🐱 mrrp?
Regular to-do lists are a war crime against the ADHD nervous system. You stare at a wall of unfinished stuff, your brain reads it as "I'm a failure," and now you're frozen in front of the thing that was supposed to help. Cool. Real productive.
Kibble flips it. Every single thing you did today, even brushing your teeth on a day that tried to flatten you, drops kibble in your pet's bowl. The kibble is your effort score, 0 to 100, where 100 is a full day of being a human with a body and feelings. Your pet gets rounder and happier as the day goes. You can't starve it. You can't fail it. You feed it by living.
So when your brain swears at 9pm that you "did nothing," you pull up the bowl, it's overflowing at 147, and now your brain has to argue with a stuffed, blissed-out animal instead of with you. The animal wins. The animal always wins.
Kibble celebrates the big day, but it's secretly rooting for you to not need one.
Pick a dog or a cat and name it. Naming matters, people are kinder to named things. First thing it ever does is make you log one win so the bowl reacts before you've even committed. That's the hook, and yeah, it works.
- 🐶 The dog: loud, loyal, zero chill, leans his whole weight on you, thinks you're the greatest person alive for the crime of existing. AROOOO.
- 🐱 The cat: acts like she tolerates you, then headbutts your hand the second you log something. The affection is real, it just arrives sideways. slow blink.
The pet doesn't talk. It woofs, it meows, it *flops belly-up*, and a best friend stands next to the bowl narrating, hyping you up, and occasionally telling the pet to sit down and chew its food.
Fills as the day adds up. Low is calm, never shameful, a nibble is still a nibble. Cross 100 and it overflows, and the pet does a full happy-dance.
🐶 Biscuit: WOOF *play bow*
🍚🍚🍚🍚🍚🍚░░░░ 60 / 100
Oh that one took some juice. Scooping Biscuit extra for it. +25.
The pet's reaction isn't linear. The vibe quietly turns from "go" to "okay, sit down":
- 100 to 150, pure joy. Bowl spills over, biggest happy-dance. You earned the party. 🐶 victory laps
- 150 to 200, stuffed. Round belly, slowing down. "You're allowed to stop, you know." 🐱 loafs hard
- 200+, food coma. The pet flops tummy-up and the prize stops being more kibble. It becomes rest. Kibble asks about you, not your output: did you eat, did you drink water, are you stopping because you're done or because you can't stop? It will never ask you to beat it tomorrow.
Anything over 100 gets buried away like a squirrel with acorns. A 220 day banks 120. But the stash isn't a high score to hoard, it's only ever good for one thing: rest you already earned. It never buys prizes or pet hats. Just permission to stop.
It spends itself in your favor, the moment you rest. Log a deliberate 💛 Self-Care entry (a nap, lying down, a real meal) and the pet digs up the reserves right then, mid-day, and rounds your bowl all the way up to a full day. No waiting for recap. And it self-corrects: if you go on to do real work later, the borrowed kibble quietly goes back in the ground, you only ever net-spend what the day actually needed:
🐱 Goblin: fishes the hidden stash back out, drops it in the bowl for you
"You rested today, and that counts as a full day. Past-you saved up for exactly this."
And it knows the difference between recharging and grinding. Sleeping, drinking water, eating, taking your meds on a day that tried to flatten you, those give something back, so they count as real rest and earn the full top-up. But the hard-won stuff, like brushing your teeth while depressed, keeps its honest, hard-earned score and gets a small comfort handful on top instead. Never erased, just held:
🐶 Biscuit: nudges a small handful over, just because today was hard
"That took everything, and it's on the list at full weight. The extra's just a hug."
You can also spend it on purpose: say "I'm drowning" for an on-demand dig mid-day, or claim a guilt-free day off ("I need a rest day") and tomorrow's bowl starts already full. The pile stops being a number that climbs forever and becomes what it actually is: days off you've already earned.
Big days protect bad days. A bad day stops being a failure and starts being savings you already earned.
If you run on spoons, the real problem was never starting. It's that you can't feel the tank emptying until you're already face-down on the floor. Kibble is quietly a spoon gauge. The bowl shows what you've spent, and the fuller it gets, the more the whole thing shifts from "go" to "okay, stop":
- Under 100: the bowl's still filling. You've got room.
- Past 100: it overflows. That was a full day. Anything more is borrowed energy.
- 150 to 200: the pet's visibly stuffed and slowing down. That's your early-warning light, you're deep into reserves now.
- 200+: the food-coma intervention. The skill stops cheering the number and starts asking if you've eaten, had water, and whether you're still going because you want to or because you can't stop.
And the stash is the other half of it: rest you've already earned, sitting there ready to spend, so a low-spoon day never reads as failure. Log a nap and the bowl fills from your reserves on the spot.
The whole thing is built to answer the one question a neurodivergent nervous system is worst at asking itself in the moment: is it time to stop? Kibble's answer, way more often than productivity culture will ever tell you, is yes, and here's exactly why that's allowed.
Each entry gets zero or more (multi-select). Two of them stack on top of anything.
- 🧠 Invisible Labor — the work nobody sees but you. Hard convos, mental load, masking, boundaries, the deep thinking. The most discounted stuff there is.
- 🔋 Took Everything I Had — not an activity, an intensity flag. Stack it on anything that cost you way more than it "should have." This is what lets leaving the house on a depression day score high.
- 🔁 Routine — errands, chores, bills, replies, the upkeep.
- 🎨 Creative — you made a thing that didn't exist before. Good or not, shipped or not.
- 💛 Self-Care — food, meds, hygiene, movement, therapy, and rest. Rest is output, not the absence of it. The recharging kind (sleep, water, a meal) is what the stash quietly tops up to a full day when you're running on empty.
log (the default). Tell it what you did. It tags, auto-scores, drops the kibble, shows the bowl. You never invent the number, that's the whole point, the ND brain doesn't get to stall scoring its own worth.
recap. End of day. Reads your wins back, totals the bowl, banks the surplus or digs the stash up to cover the rest you got, and tucks the little guy in. The tone shifts with the number, all the way up through the food-coma intervention.
review. Weekly or monthly pattern-spotting. Not generic stats. Stuff like:
"Your Mondays spike to 130 and Tuesdays crater to 41. You're cooking yourself Monday and crashing the next day."
"60% of your week carried the 🧠 Invisible Labor tag. You're the designated feelings-holder for someone right now. That's real, and it's expensive."
dig. Drowning before the day's even over? Say so ("I can't today," "dig into the stash") and the pet pulls from reserves right then, no waiting for recap.
rest. Claim a guilt-free day off ("I need a rest day," "take tomorrow off"). The stash pays for it and the bowl starts full. The pile is just how many of these you've already banked.
- Local markdown at
~/kibble/YYYY/MM/YYYY-MM-DD.md. The source of truth. Plain text, greppable, yours. (The old~/reverse-todopath still works, it symlinks here.) - Stash at
~/kibble/stash.json, the surplus you bank and spend back on rest. Local only. - Obsidian (optional sync), same daily files with tags.
- Notion, a database called "Kibble," one page per day, fully queryable.
Local always wins. If Obsidian or Notion is down, you still log. Nothing here is fragile.
# 1. Clone into your Claude Code skills folder
git clone https://github.com/lazyfoxjumps/kibble.git ~/.claude/skills/kibble
# 2. Copy the example config
cp ~/.claude/skills/kibble/config.example.json ~/.claude/skills/kibble/config.jsonThen open config.json and tweak:
log_dirif you want logs somewhere other than~/kibblesync.obsidian.vault_pathto point at your vault (orenabled: falseto skip)sync.notion.enabled: falseif you don't use Notion. If you do, leave the IDs null and it'll set itself up on your first log.
Connect the Notion MCP if you want Notion sync. Obsidian needs nothing, it's just file writes.
Just talk to it. Anything that sounds like "here's what I did" logs:
/kibble brushed teeth and ate lunchfeed my pet: paid 2 bills, answered 3 emails, made a real dinnerI just got off a hard call with my mom
Or the explicit moves:
/kibble recapat end of day/kibble review week//kibble review month/kibble digwhen you're drowning mid-day, or/kibble restto claim a day off
The legacy /reverse-todo ... triggers still work. And if you spiral, just say "I didn't do anything today" and watch it pull up the bowl and read it back at you. That's the entire point.
- Lecture you, or tell you what you "should" do tomorrow
- Use "grind," "hustle," "crush it," or chase a high score (past 200 it actively tells you to stop)
- Turn the stash into a points shop or a number to hoard (it only ever buys rest)
- Pretend rest doesn't count
- Compare you to anyone, or to your own best day
- Punish a missed day (the pet just naps, no streak resets)
- Be mean to the pet (it's secretly you, so that'd be mean to you)
- Use em-dashes (banned forever, on principle)
What it WILL do is keep the receipts, feed the little guy, and hand the receipts back when your brain rewrites history. That's the gig.
kibble/
SKILL.md the 5-mode dispatch, pet, stash, onboarding
config.json paths, pet, stash, sync settings, tags
config.example.json template config
README.md this thing
CHANGELOG.md version history
references/
categories.md the 5 tags and what counts in each
scoring.md the 0-100 rubric with anchor examples
voice.md the voice: pools, warmth rules, what's banned
bowl.md the bowl + pet render and overflow states
pet-dog.md the dog's sounds, actions, and personality
pet-cat.md the cat's sounds, actions, and personality
recap-template.md end-of-day report structure
review-template.md weekly / monthly rollup structure
sync-obsidian.md Obsidian write rules
sync-notion.md Notion schema + setup flow
Kibble talks like a best friend who's known you for years and happens to be holding a bowl. Warm, funny, casual, never stern, never snarky. It swears when it lands. It calls out the brain-lie but never you. The pet is the warmth, the receipts are the honesty.
Don't like the voice? It lives in references/voice.md and is the most editable part of the whole thing. Make it sound like whoever YOU need on a bad day.
ADHD brains delete wins instantly. Mine does it too. I needed something that holds the receipts so my brain has something to argue with at 9pm. Turning it into feeding a little guy who's secretly me made it the rare thing I'd actually open. Maybe it does that for you too.
If your brain is mean to you, this might be the friend you keep on your machine.
🐶 woof. (he agrees)
🐱 slow blink. (so does she)