An ADHD alarm clock app that makes the first step concrete

The hardest part of an ADHD morning is often not waking up. It is the unstructured gap right after, when the day is a pile of possible next actions and none of them is obviously first. A normal alarm ends inside that gap. BarLock ends somewhere specific: at the toothpaste, the water bottle, the planner, wherever you attached the scan target.

That placement decision happens the night before, when planning is easier. In the morning there is nothing left to decide. The alarm rings, the screen names the mission, and the body follows a route it already knows. It is the same externalizing move that makes checklists and launch pads work: take the sequencing out of your head and put it in the room.

BarLock also protects the plan from late-night edits. A lock window can freeze the alarm before bedtime, so 1 a.m. optimism cannot quietly delete the 7 a.m. plan. And if the morning still wobbles, the wake check asks for one more confirmation before it lets the routine go.