u/AITookMyJobAndHouse

I used to have a bad habit of replaying stressful moments over and over after they happened. What helped me was not trying to “think positive” or force myself to calm down, but building the habit of writing down the thought, looking at the pattern behind it, and asking whether my brain was filling in blanks that were not actually there.

So I started using a little app I made to dump those thoughts when they came up. It walks me through what happened, what I assumed, what pattern might be showing up, and what a more grounded version of the situation could be.

Over time, the useful part was not the individual reflection. It was that I started catching the patterns earlier and reduce the time I wasted thinking about all of the "what if" scenarios.

I feel like I've reclaimed hours back each day doing this, and it feels sort of like "active journaling"

I’m a cognitive science PhD, and I built my first app around something I’ve always found useful: learning to notice the thoughts that show up after a stressful moment.

The app walks users through a short reflection, helps them identify possible thinking patterns, and gives them practice recognizing those patterns later. It’s based on classic cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) ideas, but puts a training twist on them.

The goal is pretty simple: help people get better at noticing when their thoughts are spiraling, catastrophizing, mind-reading, or jumping to conclusions, instead of stewing and ruminating for hours on end.

I’m looking for beta users who overthink, journal, use CBT worksheets, or are interested in building better self-reflection habits. Mostly looking for honest feedback on whether the flow feels useful.

I got tired of paying for recipe apps that still made saving recipes weirdly annoying, so I spent the last few months building my own instead.

It’s called FORK’D.

Originally I tried apps like ReciMe and a few others because my recipe collection was becoming an actual disaster. TikTok bookmarks, screenshots, random Notes app dumps, Instagram captions, half-saved YouTube links, etc.

But every time I wanted to save something, it still somehow turned into work. So I built a web app around my exact cooking flow.

Now I can throw basically anything recipe-related into it and it turns it into a clean recipe I can actually cook from later and, most importantly, share with my friends and family.

TikToks, Instagram posts, YouTube videos, screenshots of recipe cards, pasted text, voice notes, whatever.

A few things it does:

• Imports recipes from almost anywhere
• Cleans up chaotic formatting automatically
• Lets you scale ingredients
• "Cooking mode" that helps following the recipe easier while cooking it

Still a side project and improving things constantly. Wasn't until yesterday that I added ingredient scaling lol.

Site: https://forkd.site

The ask:

• If you cook often, I’d love to know if this actually feels useful
• If there’s something recipe apps STILL don’t do well, I want to hear it

We’ve all had them. “My date is ghosting me, they hate me”, “I feel like I’ll never recover”, etc etc

Thoughts that aren’t based in logic or reason, but pure emotion.

I’m building an app to combat that. Put in any anxiety or rumination and it’ll help you work through them via guided exercises.

Helps you feel better now *and* helps to identify this type of thinking later. Based off of actual cognitive science.