Kicking off a Focus Session offers reinforcement of my good intention and serves to flip a switch in my brain that helps me be more singularly focused.Īfter you select one of your Focus Sessions, you’ll see exactly what time the session is scheduled to be finished (a great addition for the way I approach tasks) and a play button to kick things off. Despite the lack of multiple stages in such an example, the value for me is that I’m making an intentional decision to only do this one thing for X amount of time. More often, my preference is to have a single-stage session that simply defines the task I need to perform. Personally, I find that planning multiple stages of focused work is more complicated than what I usually need. This flexibility is well suited for a range of different users’ work needs. You can create your own multi-stage Focus Sessions or more simple one-stage sessions consisting of a single timer. Another included session kicks off with a 5-minute planning period before the focused work begins. One of the pre-installed Focus Sessions, for example, features a 45-minute timer for focused work, followed by a 5-minute break timer, then another 45 minutes of focused work. Timers can be strung together in larger Focus Sessions wherein every timer represents a different stage of that work session. I’m also more likely to get regularly distracted if I don’t have a set end time in mind to keep me focused.įocused Work enables setting timers for different tasks that you can easily run to keep you on track with getting things done.
Without healthy boundaries for a project, the work will undoubtedly take longer than it needs to. Keeping this internalized deadline in mind will help me work more productively than I would have if my task was divorced from a real-world schedule. For example, if I start writing a column for our Club MacStories newsletter at 9:30 AM, I may have in mind that I should be finished with it by 11:30 AM. I’ve never personally used the Pomodoro Technique, but I do find myself regularly setting self-imposed estimates throughout my day of how long a certain task should take me. While this may sound like merely a Pomodoro timer app, what I appreciate about Focused Work is that while it can be used with the Pomodoro Technique, it’s much more flexible than that because it enables creating any timers or sequence of timers that will best meet your own needs and fit with the way you work. Focused Work is a simple, but valuable utility for creating timed focus sessions of productivity. As a result, I expect that more people than ever need aids to help them do focused, productive work.Ī new app from developer Michael Tigas aims to help. Not only that, but homes often provide far more distractions than a dedicated workspace. Many of us have been challenged by the loss of structure that an office or other public workspace provides.
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