Navigate the Digital Current. Find Your Calm, Focused Space.

The digital world can pull in so many directions. FocusTime offers a gentle anchor for your attention on Windows, designed to help you quiet the noise and dedicate your energy to what truly matters.

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(Currently available for Windows operating systems only)

Designed to Support Your Focus Journey

Create Your Productive Zone

Start a focus period by selecting the essential tools (apps) you need. FocusTime then acts as a gentle guardian, helping you stay within your chosen digital space by managing other applications based on your preferences.

App Sanctuary: Clearly define which applications are part of your focus environment.
Timed Calm: Set clear time boundaries for your focused sessions, adding structure.
Little Lifts: Receive subtle motivational quotes in the footer to encourage you along the way.

Find Your Rhythm with Focus Modes

Choose a mode that aligns with your current energy and the demands of your task. Build confidence and structure step by step:

Ember (Gentle Start): "Kindling the spark." A supportive mode where you have the flexibility to pause if needed.
Forge (Building Momentum): "Shaping with intention." A more structured mode designed to help you commit, with sessions that run their course once started.
Obsidian (Deep Immersion): "Unbreakable focus." For when you're ready for deep, uninterrupted work. Sessions are non-stoppable and configured for maximum focus.

A Gentle Guardian for Your Attention

Navigate digital distractions with configurable levels of support:

Soft Nudge: Distracting applications are simply minimized if they pop up.
Guided Return: Distracting apps are minimized, and one of your chosen focus apps is brought back to the front, gently guiding you back.
Clear Boundaries: For stronger focus, distracting applications are closed if they attempt to interrupt.
Essential Exceptions: Easily list apps (like your music player or file explorer) that should always remain accessible, regardless of the mode.

Care for Yourself While You Focus

Receive optional, thoughtful reminders to support your wellbeing during longer periods of concentration:

Eye Comfort: Gentle prompts to follow the 20-20-20 rule.
Mindful Movement: A friendly nudge to stand up and stretch periodically.
Stay Refreshed: Reminders to drink water and stay hydrated.

Simple to Use, Powerful in Support

Stays Out of the Way: Easily minimize to the system tray.
Helpful Signals: Clear notifications for session starts, ends, and wellbeing reminders.
Remembers Your Flow: Your settings are saved, so you can easily return to your preferred focus environment.
Adjust to Your Rhythm: Option to fine-tune how frequently FocusTime checks for distractions.

A Supportive Digital Companion: How FocusTime Can Help Navigate Challenges

Finding and maintaining focus in a digital world can be a significant challenge. FocusTime is built to provide structured support on your Windows PC, offering practical tools to help manage common hurdles:

Gently Minimizing Digital Pulls: By actively managing application access, it helps reduce the external digital stimuli that can easily fragment attention on your Windows desktop.
Creating Predictable Work Blocks: The timer and distinct focus modes encourage breaking tasks into manageable, defined intervals, aiding both initiation and completion.
Building Consistent Digital Habits: The progressive Focus Modes (Ember, Forge, Obsidian) allow you to choose appropriate levels of support, helping to gradually build comfort with sustained attention.
Providing Clear Time Anchors: The visible countdown timer helps improve awareness of time passing and offers a tangible goal to stay engaged.
Softening Task Switching Friction: By making it harder to impulsively switch away from focus tasks, FocusTime helps reduce the mental energy required to stay on track.

Think of FocusTime as a calming presence on your Windows PC, a tool designed to help you shape a digital environment where sustained focus feels more accessible and less like a constant struggle.

See the Interface

Your Calm Control Panel

Clean, intuitive design: easily choose your apps, set your time, and begin your focused session.

Deep Work in Progress

The timer is a gentle reminder, while potential distractions are quietly managed.

Tailor it to Your Needs

Customize how distractions are handled, set essential exceptions, and adjust reminders for your unique flow.

(Illustrative placeholders. Actual app screenshots will show the Windows UI. Apologies, images are not the best)

Built Together: Open Source & Community

FocusTime is a Windows open-source project, built with transparency and a belief in collaborative improvement. Your insights and contributions are welcome.

Explore the Code on GitHub

Join In: Build and Run from Source (Windows)

Curious about how it works or want to contribute? Here's how to get started on Windows:

**Essentials First:**
- A Windows Operating System.
- Ensure you have the ".NET desktop development" workload installed (via Visual Studio Installer or dotnet command line).
- Git for Windows (or your preferred Git client).
- While you can use Visual Studio (like 2019, 2022), command line is shown below!

Fetch the project code:

git clone https://github.com/gourabdg47/FocusTime.git

Move into the project folder:
```
cd FocusTime
```
Build and Run:
```
dotnet build
dotnet run
```
And there you have it!

(These instructions are based on typical .NET project setup. Please verify against the GitHub repository's README for any specific requirements.)