Efficiency is one of my 4 Productivity Vectors, and Focus is the element inside it that collapses first. Twenty years of back-to-back meetings as Chief Data Officer taught me that willpower alone doesn't hold a focus block together. These are the too...
a free, no-signup Pomodoro timer in the browser, the simplest way to test whether 25-minute blocks work for you before installing anything.
Pomofocus
plant a tree on your phone that dies if you leave the app, a cheap freemium nudge that turns focus into a small game.
Forest
free scheduled video sessions with a stranger who is also working, borrowed accountability for the days willpower runs out.
Focusmate—Virtual body doubling for getting anything done
a free tier that tracks where your screen time actually goes, so you stop guessing how long your focus blocks really last.
RescueTime
my own priority app, free to start, picks the single task worth protecting before you open a focus session.
The One Thing: Get Things Done - Apps on Google Play
a freemium time tracker that shows focus block length creeping down week over week, before it disappears entirely.
Toggl
a subscription for music engineered to hold focus rather than just sound pleasant in the background.
Brain.fm
a subscription for adaptive soundscapes that shift with the time of day, useful for the afternoon slump.
Endel
a one-time paid license that locks distracting sites and apps on a schedule you set once and can't talk yourself out of.
Get Cold Turkey
a subscription blocker that syncs across phone, tablet and laptop, for people who open a new device the moment the first one gets blocked.
Freedom
a paid calendar app that auto-defends focus time by rescheduling meetings around it instead of around your calendar.
Reclaim
my own live cohort course, the deepest commitment on this list, for building Focus and the other 15 elements into a system instead of a string of apps.
Optimize Your Life & Career through the 4Productivity Vectors by Santiago Tacoronte on Maven
