Acknowledgement Force
A daily contract you must read and commit to before your Mac is yours. Read carefully. Acknowledge intentionally. Then take a deep breath.
The premise
Discipline isn't a feeling you wait for. It's a contract you sign — every single day, before the day gets to you.
Acknowledgement Force gates your Mac behind your own words. The window won't close until you've read today's contract, ticked the box, and named the one thing that matters most.
See it in motion
A calm, deliberate ritual
The breathing intro, the contract, the commitment. Drop your screen recording in below.
Inside the app
Every surface, built like cotton paper
A strictly monochrome system where depth comes from stacked tonal layers — never borders. Here's the real thing, recreated pixel-faithful.
The locked contract
I. Who I Am
I am building something that compounds. My success depends on sustained performance, not bursts.
II. Non-Negotiable Rules
III. Daily Acknowledgement
By opening this app, I commit to executing with discipline and clarity today.
Daily
Non-Negotiables
0/6
Today's highest-leverage action
Themes
Light, Dark, System
Past actions · last 30 days
Re-lock schedule
One acknowledgement carries the whole day.
Yours alone
100% local. Zero network.
Every contract, action and streak lives in your Mac's own defaults. No accounts, no servers, no trackers — the source is right there for you to read.
What it does
Built to hold you to your word
The no-escape gate
The window refuses to close until today's contract is acknowledged. Pair it with auto-launch on login and there's no quiet way around your own rules.
Your contract, your words
Write it in plain Markdown — headings, rules, checkboxes, bold. Edit the motivation line and non-negotiables anytime. It's a template, not a sermon.
Daily non-negotiables
A living checklist that resets each period, with a progress badge that fills as you go. Thirty days of past actions, always one click away.
A calmer cadence
Breathing rings, soft-focus dissolves, spring physics everywhere. Choose how often it re-locks — every launch, hourly, daily, weekly, or on login.
The ritual
Three steps. Every day.
Read
The contract scrolls into focus. You can't skip ahead — the acknowledgement only unlocks once you've reached the bottom.
Acknowledge
Tick the box. Name today's single highest-leverage action — the one thing that, done, makes the day a win.
Commit
Confirm, and your Mac is yours. Your action and streak are logged locally, and the dashboard greets you.
Sign today's contract.
Acknowledgement Force is free, open source, and native to macOS. Clone it, read every line, make it yours.