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 - **Clear completed**: Click "Clear Completed" to remove all completed todos
 
 Your todos are automatically saved to localStorage and will persist across browser sessions.
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+## 📖 Story: The Freelancer Who Found Focus
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+It was 9 p.m. on a Tuesday when Leila, a freelance web developer, sat down with three deadlines converging on Friday. Her inbox was a battlefield of client requests, bug reports, and half-finished feature branches. She opened her browser, navigated to the Todo app, and started typing.
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+*"Fix nav-bar bug — client A"*, *"Write API docs — client B"*, *"Deploy staging — client C"*.
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+Six tasks later, the list stared back at her. It felt overwhelming — until she clicked **Active** in the filter bar. Suddenly, only the unfinished work remained on screen. The noise disappeared.
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+She worked through the night, checking off tasks one by one. Around midnight, her laptop froze. Heart in her throat, she force-quit the browser and reopened the tab. The list was exactly as she'd left it — every task intact, every checkmark in place, all of it quietly preserved in localStorage while she panicked.
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+By Thursday morning, only two items remained. She switched back to **All**, added a final task — *"Send invoices"* — and smiled. She clicked **Clear Completed**, and the finished work vanished, leaving only what mattered.
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+Friday afternoon, all three clients received their deliveries on time. Leila closed her laptop, made coffee, and added one last todo: *"Take the weekend off"*.
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+She checked it off immediately.