How the content is made

Paths, situations and readings

The catalogue organizes everyday difficulties into themes and specific situations. A sixty-chapter path draws from the readings written for them. In Find a starting point, you choose a direction, a situation and a reading view, then try the actual first reading before saving.

Those choices affect the order and presentation of educational material. They do not produce a diagnosis, a brain type or a validated match score. Choosing a new starting point does not silently rewrite an existing saved path.

Preparation and responsibility

AI tools assist with drafting and checking. Oğuz Erol describes the original preparation as drawing on at least 15 sources and checks with three AI systems. This is the creator's account of the preparation process; it is not a complete, independently audited bibliography for every reading.

Oğuz is responsible for the project and its corrections. AI checks can miss errors. We do not present them as expert clinical review, and DopaNudge has not been clinically validated as a treatment.

The four Tools practices use prepared examples and the words you choose to enter. Your private task and practice text is not sent to an AI provider to generate advice.

Research that informs selected design choices

These primary studies help frame questions about planning, reminders, feedback and motivation. They did not test DopaNudge. Their participants and tasks differ from using this app in daily life.

• Gollwitzer and Brandstätter: implementation intentions studied linking a chosen action with a specific opportunity in student tasks. This informs the optional action-and-cue format, rather than establishing that every small-step exercise works.
• Gilbert: external reminders for delayed intentions studied reminders in controlled tasks. Keeping a return note is a design application to try; it is not a guarantee that you will remember or return.
• Buehler, Griffin and Ross: task-time estimates distinguishes optimistic estimation bias from overall accuracy. Our time practice records your estimate and trial separately; it does not score attention or claim to correct time perception.
• Sailer and colleagues: different game elements compared packages of game elements and psychological need ratings in a simulation. It did not test Grove or establish a long-term productivity or treatment effect.

These studies used general student or adult samples, not groups selected for an ADHD diagnosis. We do not transfer their results into a claim that these app features treat ADHD. Optional Grove, sharing controls and the choice to stop are also product decisions, rather than proven clinical interventions.

What a record can tell you

A timer records time. A private note records your words. A task completion or activity badge records an action reported or completed in the app. These records do not independently verify what happened outside it or measure your worth.

The readings and practices are educational and for self-reflection. They do not replace professional assessment or treatment, and the word dopamine in the name is not a measurement of brain chemistry.

Read it and decide

Read the first full sample lesson, try the second sample or open a free practice. You can adapt an example, skip it or choose a different approach.

If something is inaccurate, misleading or unhelpful, send a correction. The guide explains the current features and the privacy notice explains how private records are handled.