A quiet menu bar timer built around reset. Count elapsed work, feel the texture of your input, then return the session to zero with one dead stroke.
Short bursts tell you the pace of focused work. Start, reset, and the receipt is kept. Low starting energy is the point.
Long spans show lived time between bursts. Quiet gaps are texture you can read later — never a score, never a grade.
One stroke returns the session to 00:00. No countdown, no confirm, no alert — it collapses what came before.
The menu bar counts elapsed time and the texture of your input — keys, clicks, and the quiet between them.
Name the task after the fact, when the timestamp jogs your memory. A blank label is a valid label.
Come back to a quiet receipt in Recent Sessions. Nothing you typed was kept — only the shape of the work.
An instrument earns trust by what it refuses. Dead Strokes stays a small, quiet utility on purpose.
One short task. One messy session. One long return. That's the whole ask.
Dead Strokes is local-first. It does not record typed content.