Why I gave my to-do app a 7-day expiry date
Most tasks on your list aren't important. They feel important because they've been there long enough to become furniture. CIPHER deletes tasks after 168 hours automatically. No warning. No recovery. If it wasn't done in 7 days — it either wasn't real, or you already know what to do about it. Has a deadline ever made something clearer for you?
Would you use a to-do app that self-destructs?
That's literally what CIPHER does. Complete all your tasks → server executes Scorched Earth protocol → daemon terminates → connection severed. The question I keep getting: "but what if I want to keep using it?" That's the point. You shouldn't want to. Finishing is the exit condition. Curious — does the self-destruct mechanic feel motivating or anxiety-inducing to you?
What's the one task you've been avoiding for weeks?
I built CIPHER.SYS partly to answer this for myself. My Notion had 200+ tasks. I was reorganising them every Sunday. Nothing was shipping. So I made something that only allows 5 tasks at a time. They expire in 7 days. When you're done — the app kills itself. Drop your one avoided task below. Let's make it a directive. ⬇️