cookedness tracker

a periodic self-check system for monitoring focus and cognitive state throughout a work session. "cooked" is slang for mentally fried — can't think clearly, making dumb mistakes, spinning wheels. the problem is that you often don't notice you're cooked until you've wasted 30 minutes. a tracker that prompts you every N minutes to rate your state (1-5, or just cooked/not cooked) could surface patterns: you're always cooked after lunch, cooked after 3 hours without a break, cooked when you haven't eaten.

the intervention side is as important as the detection side. knowing you're cooked is useless without a clear action — take a walk, eat something, switch tasks, stop entirely. the tracker could learn what reliably un-cooks you and suggest the right recovery based on context. connects directly to universal habits which is the bigger vision for context-aware behavioral interventions. also overlaps with Pause (screen break reminders) though Pause is time-based while cookedness tracker is state-based.