Focus sessions

Focus is a live timer that ticks identically across every signed-in device — start it on your phone, watch it on your laptop. It comes in modes grouped as Timed and Open:

• Pomodoro and Gentle — bounded sessions that count down.
• Flow — counts up, open-ended, for when the work is carrying you.
• Body double — work alongside someone, the classic ADHD companion effect.

While a session runs you can quick-add tasks and notes; they’re filed in the session’s garden. On any finish — a natural completion or an early stop — a meditative bell sounds, an ink-splot blooms, and a calm review appears: an optional check-in plus everything you made. Every session is kept and revisitable.

Why it’s here. The hardest part of focus for an AuDHD brain is rarely the doing — it’s starting, and stopping without self-judgment. Framing an early stop the same as a completion removes the failure narrative entirely.

The psychology. Time-boxing externalizes time (which ADHD experiences poorly); body-doubling borrows someone else’s regulated presence to start; the closing ritual gives the nervous system a clean edge to the work.

A contemplative thread. A timed sit with a bell at each end is, almost exactly, a meditation period. Focus borrows that container: a clear beginning, a held middle, a sounded close.