A focus timer with a todo list. Finish tasks and your daily village grows.
- A todo list built in: Today, Later, done.
- Every finished task builds something, from Sprout to Wonder.
- Each morning starts a fresh village. A missed day is just a missed day.
Attention
is a practice.
Practices, notes, reading, and the tools I couldn’t find so I made them.
The guide is everything here, in the order I’d try it.
Made here
The tools. Free in your browser, no account, and the core stays free.
Focus Session 59:55 REST-LEFT · 12:00 Rest Rest Session 12:00 RESTING ALSO COUNTS Focus Focus Flow · your average session, growing
Focus sessions with no end time. Rest is part of the work, and your focus grows over the weeks.
- No end time: focus counts up until you decide to stop.
- Every 5 minutes of focus earns 1 minute of rest.
- Focus Flow charts your average session, week over week.
Surfed an hour and a half at Joaquina. Cold, and worth it. 
07:10 · 1H30 · WITH JOÃO
YOUR RHYTHM Mostly great.
07:10 · 1H30 · WITH JOÃO
YOUR RHYTHM Mostly great. A journal for your hobbies. Save each session as a memory: mood, reps, hours, and who was there.
- A rep takes about ten seconds: what, how long, who was there.
- How it felt, on a five-feeling scale from drained to radiant.
- Weeks fill with color, and recaps show the hours add up.
Practices & thoughts
Things I actually do, and notes on why they work.
Twenty seconds off-screen You can do this one right here, right now.
Ten minutes before the phone One change to the first ten minutes of your day.
Listening without preparing your answer Harder than any timer I’ve built.
Walking without headphones Boring for four days, then not.
Why rest earns at five to one The arithmetic, and why I stopped using twenty-five minute timers.
From other people
About half of what helps me isn’t mine. These are the ones I go back to.
About
Practical Focus is one person — me, Arthur. I keep this because the things that helped me pay attention were scattered across notebooks, and half of them weren’t mine. What I made sits first, because it’s what I can answer for. The rest I point at.