Heed: Dopamine Detox

Heed stands before the apps you choose. The first times you open each one in a day, it offers a moment first: a question, a breath, a fact about your day. As the day goes on, it asks less and less. Then you choose. "Continue" is always there. It is not a blocker. It's a way of noticing, so the phone becomes a little less automatic, day by day. A MOMENT THAT FITS • Windows written for each kind of app: what you feel before a food delivery app is not what you feel before a video feed. • Morning, day, evening or night, and how many times you've already opened it this hour. • Twelve kinds of moment: what you're here for, a short body check, your own sentence, something else to do, a fact about you, what you were feeling, how long you think you'll stay, a trade, ten seconds face down, and, at night, the person who wakes up tomorrow. • The first five openings of each app in a day always get a…