Hey people, I’m a psychologist. Although I have a long-lasting passion for web technology and the digital craft, I am not a developer. I know I fall into the 'vibe coder' category; I accept my profane role and am humbly aware of my place. I got the idea while reading Eckhart Tolle’s "The Power of Now" a while ago. There is a passage in the book in which the author describes the mechanism that helped him arrive at a more profound realization about his mind. He says that if you simply ask yourself, “What is my next thought?”, you will find that for a moment, all thoughts seem to have a slight delay in showing up. This is because the act of focus and awareness causes a gap in the flow of thinking, making one an observer of their own mind. Doing this systematically will eventually increase the delay during which the brain is in a thoughtless state. I found this very insightful, useful, and helpful. I expanded a bit and made a game out of this for me to play in my mind… I pictured my mind as a canvas, consciously invoking any thought, and then casually casting it out of the screen of my mind, thus helping my brain by giving it brief moments of conscious deactivation from the constant flow of thinking. I tried to share this exercise with a few friends and loved ones, but I found that it was not that easy to get them motivated to do such a simple mind task. Of course, not everyone thinks they need psychological maintenance… but even so… The simplicity of the task, combined with my own stubbornness, drove me to start thinking of a way to materialize the exercise in a digital format so people can have a motivational, game-like experience. Now again… I am not a developer. I know enough web fundamentals and coding to direct an AI to build precisely what I want. I used Google AI Studio to generate the codebase for this app. I iterated until I got the whole picture from my mind out into a digital object. So, this is an interactive tool that allows users to visually and physically 'let go' of their thoughts through a physical experience. It works like this: You type a thought, an LLM classifies the emotional tone of the text and determines whether it should jitter (for an angry or fearful thought), returning a JSON. The thought is then generated on the canvas as a glowing orb, along with a piano chord sound and a color according to its emotion. The user physically interacts with the thought by dragging and 'pushing' or 'throwing' it off the screen. I used HTML5 canvas with requestAnimationFrame to ensure the animations run smoothly at 60fps during interactions. The sounds are generated with procedural sound via the Web Audio API. The Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite model categorizes the emotional state of the user's thought input. There are no databases and no logins. Everything stays in the user's browser (localStorage). It only saves the 'emotional category' (e.g., 'Anxiety') so users can see a progress map, but the text of the thought is never stored. I tried to create something of quality but with low cost and low maintenance, so I hosted it on Vercel Hobby with no custom domain. That’s it. All aspects of the design, logic, game mechanics, feel, physics, structure of the core idea, and psychological insight came from my end (and Eckhart’s). Gemini translated all this into code, gave me options for implementation, helped resolve inefficiencies, redundancies, and errors (as I prompted it numerous times along the way), and provided the knowledge to help me get from an idea to a working product. I once again apologize for being the tourist waltzing into developer land by using AI to conduct my digital creation endeavors. I assure you I have nothing but respect for the craft of coding and I humbly thank you for any form of feedback on this.

MindTame

Interactive AI tool. Swipe your thoughts out of your mind.

Interactive AI tool. Swipe your thoughts out of your mind.