I ran out of trial time and recently signed up for a yearly subscription. One thing I'd like to see improved the the alert style. It would be really nice if FocusMe used the built in Notifications of MacOS. Part of the reason is that FocusMe shows alerts in the lower right, but the alerts for MacOS are all in the upper right of the screen. My eyes are always trained to go up there.
Also, I'm on the email list for an alert for when you might release an iOS version, but I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that I'd really like one. FocusMe has been really helpful about keeping me on task on my laptop and I want that same functionality on my iPhone. Apple's own iOS Screen Time just doesn't cut it. I need to set up hours or timers of exclusion like FocusMe, not cumulative time limits like Screen Time does (for which I addictively keep tapping "15 more minutes" when my time is up).
Been a paying customer for focusme for over a year now. Love it.
I noticed that me and my girlfriend are having massive frustrations when we have a holiday or weekend, and we want to disable the app, but we have to enter enormous codes as though it was a normal day.
This doesn't seem fair, it is our day off!
Is it possible to add a feature for "Cheat days" or "Holiday budget" however you wish to call it?
I have this feature idea, that I would REALLY want, and would make me be a focusme sub for 5 extra years, to be honest.
I would love to have the way to have a scaling difficulty for any consecutive Pauses or Breaks.
For example, there will be two fields
- Random Characters to Pause Plan : 200 characters
- Random characters added for each Pause : 100 characters
Now, my pauses go like 200 chars, 300 chars, 400 chars.
Each pause is getting more and more costly.
I found out that one or two pauses each day is ok, but I am not okay with more than that.
I cannot set that up in the app without making the first pauses feel VERY punishing. I have 300-500 char random plans, and they are so costly I never really go for pauses, but I would really need a pause from time to time... just not this punishing.
Right now, the software prioritizes the whitelist over the blacklist. Pretty logical, otherwise a whitelist would be useless.
Whenever I use the whitelist, it's mostly to unblock a certain subpage of a blocked website. Though, to whitelist a site, it's nice to have a less strict protection then fully stopping the plan.
The issue with this is, you can whitelist the entire site you just blocked. If I wanted to whitelist a certain Youtube channel, or specific part of a news site, it's just as easy to just whitelist the whole site.
My suggestion: Make it so that the whitelist doesn't overrule the blacklist if a page from the blacklist is whitelisted.
If reddit.com is on the blacklist, make it so that reddit.com, www. reddit.com, https://reddit.com and https://wwww.reddit.com can't be whitelisted, or can't overrule the blacklist.
I don't know whether it's possible to easily implement this, but it would be pretty useful to me.
I have used your product for several months now, and though it has been useful in many ways, the issues I have had have made it too much of a headache to be worth continuing.
I feel I owe you at least the courtesy of explaining the issues, which aside from minor bugs that you have been good at cleaning up over time, are two major things.
1) There is no way to set a time window for the automatic break function, so that every time my work period is over, I either have to completely disable the program, or dig up the emergency password I have placed in a very inconvenient location to prevent me from using it too easily. If I do disable the program, it prevents me from benefiting from the useful shutdown timer to regulate my sleep schedule.
2) Randomly and without any commonalities that I can detect, the program will simply stop accepting the correct password when I attempt to disable the automatic break. And to be clear, I am 100% sure this is not a case of accidentally putting in the password wrong. This issue lasts for exactly one break period, after which it resumes accepting the exact same password, until a random later time when it happens again.
This has twice caused me to have issues with online sessions where I had forgotten to end the program and the computer locked up without a way to disable it until the break was over.
IF these issues are addressed, I will consider resuming my subscription, but until then, I feel the program causes more frustration for me than it solves.
That being said, I do appreciate what you are trying to do and I wish you and your company the best of luck.
It would be even better, if not only can you filter sites to limit search engines lets say, but enforce safe search. This would help further fill the gap so u can really prevent adult content just from search engines.
