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Focus — a Google Chrome extension to keep you focused while working.
Focus is a Google Chrome extension that improves your ability to focus on working, studying and/or reading in the web browser.
It accomplishes this through temporarily locking down your web browser to a single tab you want to focus on so you stay productive.
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I built this Chrome extension because so many people I know (myself included) get distracted when working, reading, or studying in the web browser. When we create all these tabs and windows it ruins our task-based focus not to mention our productivity.
I figured why not create an awesome tool for myself and others that, for $1/month, allowed you to reclaim some productivity in an ever increasing distracted world.
⚙️ Here's how it works: ⚙️
Step 0️: Download the extension from the Chrome Web Store.
Step 1: Select the tab that you want to stay focused on (click on it).
Step 2: Click the extension button and press "Activate". Your other work will get collapsed and stored temporarily in local memory.
Step 3: Continue to work as you normally would. If you attempt to create distractions you'll see that you're blocked from doing so :)
Step 4: When you're done with your task click "Deactivate" and you'll see all of your work you had (tabs, windows, etc.) restored for you.
It's really that simple. Give it a try and see your productivity go through the roof.
Connor, you published the wrong link. It is asking 5USD because you published the developer link (after it was accepted in the Chrome Store). Just remove publish-accepted?authuser=0&hl=en from the URL ;-)
It's asking for 5 USD. IMO, you shouldn't ask users to pay before even having tried it in the first place.
@thecodearrow Google charges $5 if you want to become a developer. I give a 7 day trial and then it costs $1/month. Pretty solid deal if you ask me :)
Fantastic product. I was able to download it from the Chrome store and it helps me with focusing. Absolutely worth $1/month after the 7 day trial.
Love this, And I mean, I LOVE this. I wish I thought of this. The only problem is that I'd really really wish it would auto-start with the browser, and fix the bug of when clicking "Activate" it restores all my tabs and Chrome becomes unresponsive because of the sheer amount it force closes. Latest Chrome version on latest OS X. IMHO, there should be an option to just discard the tab and not save it.
Edit: created an account just to mention this. Well done, devs.
Edit 2: Bug was found to be a conflict with another extension.
@abdul_m_diaz Thank you so much for the feedback! Couple of questions I'd love to get some clarity around..
1) What do you mean auto-start with the browser?
2) How many tabs were you trying to close that resulted in the performance bottleneck?
3) What do you mean discard the tab? Do you mean you want the functionality of being able to remove certain tabs *before* the "activation" starts?
@connorbrer
1) As in, have the ability to automatically focus whenever the browser starts. Right now, if you open Chrome from a fresh start, Focus will start disabled. It would be nice if it remembered the last state it was in before Chrome was closed and resume that.
2) It wasn't an issue with the Focus app, it was another extension that created new tabs automatically. So no need to worry.
3) It'd be nice if instead of saving the tabs that were once open before activating Focus, it would just delete them.
Also another point, if this is a paid app (read the other comments), remember that crx files can be decompressed and reverse-engineered. But this shouldn't be too hard with a server + database in place that holds records of paid accounts.
Please keep up the great work, this is an amazing app for a minimalist like me and has certainly helped me re-think my relationship with technology.
Edit: minor pet peeve, the font isn't displaying like it is in the video. It's a serif font instead, maybe it's an issue with the font being a blocked resource ?
@abdul_m_diaz I think we can solve (1) and (3) in a future feature release for you. It's pretty simple, we just have some form of UI that allows you to see all the tabs in an array like matter and then you're able to close them individually from in our extension.
I used a custom font so I need to install it in the app for users.
Our next features are going to come out and I'll be sure to give you a heads up since we're launching new features.
@connorbrer Ahhh thank you!!! I really look forward to it! This is amazing. Quick question, is a keyboard shortcut for Focus activation coming soon? Also, I have this thing that whenever I click a link in my email or from my code editor, it (rightly) opens up in a new tab. Is a feature to open new-tab links in the current tab something possible and considered? I know that this may be hard to account for intent, so it's okay if it isn't possible.
@abdul_m_diaz I haven't thought about that yet. I will consider it in the next release though
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