Can You Just NOT

A to-do list of things not to do.

Nothing here ever gets ticked off. Each item has a check-in interval, and you keep it alive by tapping ⏱️ before the clock runs out. The streak is the reward.

Can You Just NOT app icon: a face, palmed

Not a checkbox. A heartbeat.

A regular to-do app asks whether you did the thing. This one asks whether you're still not doing it — over and over, on whatever schedule you set.

The app's list under the title Can You Just… — NOT check the score, overdue and showing a pointing finger; NOT drink after work, on time with a full green bar; and NOT check email before coffee, greyed out and reading check in tomorrow after 7:00 AM.
  • Name what you're avoiding. "drink after work." "doomscroll in bed." Whatever you'd rather just not.
  • Pick an interval. Every 30 minutes, every 12 hours, every day — whatever matches the pull of the habit.
  • Watch the bar drain. Each row shows the time left before the next check-in and the total time you've kept it going.
  • Tap ⏱️ to sustain. The stopwatch turns to 👍🏻 for a moment when you do. The time since your last tap is added to the total. Tapping more often doesn't buy more time — but it's counted, and the app notices.
  • Get a nudge if you go quiet. One notification covers everything you've let slide, not one per item.

What happens when you miss one

The item doesn't disappear and it doesn't scold you in words. The button just changes face, on a schedule tied to your own interval. Call it N — an hour, a day, whatever you chose.

⏱️
up to N
Sustaining. The bar is still draining. Tap it and it turns 👍🏻 for a few seconds.
🙏🏻
N — 2N
Missed, but only just. Come back.
🫵🏻
2N — 4N
Missed, and you know it.
🤦🏻‍♀️
past 4N
Let's not talk about it.

Tap it late and every second still counts. Missing a check-in only means you didn't open the app, which is not the same as slipping — and the app won't assume otherwise. Past the last face it stops guessing and asks you outright: did you actually do it, or did you just forget? Only your own answer ends a run, and even then the run you just finished keeps everything it earned.

No account. No email. No password.

The app makes an anonymous ID for your phone the first time it opens, and that's the whole login story. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to sign in to.

It does keep detailed records of how you use it — every check-in, every miss, every time you open the app — because that history is the point of the thing. All of it is tied to that one anonymous ID. Read the privacy policy.