Research & Writing

Focus

Jalaran Focus runs deep-work sessions with an intention, an interval and a distraction count, then shows you which hours of your day actually produce good sessions.

Open Focus →Create free account

Who Focus is for

For people who suspect they have good and bad hours and have never had the data to know. Also for anyone writing something long, where sustained sessions are the entire job and a distraction count is an uncomfortable but useful number.

What Focus does

Each session starts with a stated intention — what you are working on and why — which is the part that makes a timer more than a clock. During the session you record distractions, and afterwards you rate how it went. From that history Focus builds a quality-by-hour view of your own day: not a generic claim about mornings, but your sessions, weighted by how they actually went. The timer runs in the browser and only completed sessions are stored, so an abandoned one leaves nothing behind.

Intention and goal recorded per session
Distraction counter and interval tracking
Links a session to a Draft document or Task
Quality-by-hour view built from your own history

How Focus works

State an intention
What you are working on. A session with a stated intention behaves differently from one with a timer running.
Work the interval
The timer runs in the browser. Only a finished session is recorded, so an abandoned one leaves no trace.
Count the distractions
Each interruption logged. The number is uncomfortable and it is the point.
Rate the session
How it actually went. This is what makes the quality-by-hour view mean anything.
Read your hours
Session quality by time of day, computed from your own history in your own timezone.

What Focus does not do

Focus is descriptive and stops there, deliberately: the quality-by-hour view tells you what your history shows and makes no recommendation about when you should work, because a pattern in past sessions is not a prescription and your schedule is not usually yours to choose. It needs enough sessions per hour before an hour is reported at all. It does not block websites, track applications or watch what you do — it records what you tell it.

Common questions

Does it tell me when I should work?

No. It reports what your own history shows and stops there. A correlation in past sessions is not advice, and most people cannot rearrange their day around it anyway.

Does it block distracting sites?

No. There is no blocker, no application monitoring and no screen tracking. You count your own distractions, which is also why the number means something.