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Hey ryanwaggoner, I do agree that this app is not meant to completely isolate you from everything and prevent all distractions, including distraction from smart
by daniel_sushil 4y ago
Hey ryanwaggoner, I do agree that this app is not meant to completely isolate you from everything and prevent all distractions, including distraction from smart phones. The one thing it does really well though is to help you setup goals and track all your tasks and reminders with ease. It also shows you your web apps in a single window with way less cluttered tabs. If you want to research or open any website, you can. You just open the command bar using CMD+1 shortcut (in mac) and just type the website you want to visit. By default, the command bar will open your websites or apps in split view so you don't lose focus of the work you were doing. But if going to a website is deliberate and you want to switch contexts fully, you can always press SHIFT+CMD+1 to open websites, apps, bookmarks etc in full view. Again, it is an extra but a deliberate step to switch contexts fully.
Basically, a lot of things are built into the app to help you focus by default. Even the daily productivity goals help you track your work habits and even tracks focus time by default. A lot of things in the app are done by default so you get to build atomic habits to achieve greater success in the long run and on a consistent basis.
Can you do all of this in other apps? Sure, you can do a lot of what this app offers by sticthing together many different and distinct apps. The problem is you will use those apps initially but revert back to your old habits. Since Floutwork helps you bring everything into one place, although it might feel restrictive at first, once you get used to it, you will realize you are able to focus way more. Would love for you to try it out. If it works, great! If it doesn't, at least you can say you tried ;-)
- Bedon292 4y agoI find ad blocking to be an important part of focus. Any support for extensions in the browser part? It would be nice to be able to add in uBlock Origin, and probably a password manager extension rather than using your vault.
- daniel_sushil 4y ago@Bendon292 - I agree with you on ad blocking being an important part of focus. At least personally, I didn't find myself getting too distracted by ads because most web apps we use for work don't rely on an ad model. But I do get distracted if I need to research something or go to something like forbes.com to read an article etc. I am planning to add support for Chrome extensions soon. uBlock Origin seems like an excellent candidate to roll out as part of the initial extension support.