Hi guys,

As you know from my regular emails I love this software and how much more powerful and customisable it is than any other similar products out there.

I love the regular updates and improvements and now that Firefox is working properly it's even more useful for me.

I've got three suggestions with regards to UI that I think would be useful:

1. The ability to create (ideally coloured) custom Categories on the main plan page. I, like many I imagine, have lot's of plans and while you can move them around to put them in order it's still a bit clunky having them all visible at once. It would be nice if various plans could be nested within categories and then with a click a full-size drop down of the included plans is revealed (or hidden again).

2. I'd love if the Plan Settings/Create a Plan window could be dragged and resized. On some of my plans on the Blacklist/Whitelist pages I have many hundreds of lines of websites and RegEx and it's a chore only showing a few lines at once. Also on this same topic I'd love if the little scrolling icon on the Blacklist/Whitelist pages was larger. It's tiny and a pain to click on and drag with when dragging up and down lot's of lines of websites trying to find one you want to adjust or remove.

3. This might be trickier but over on the main Plans page I wish FocusMe allowed you to click and drag plans up and down the list with some kind of animation where the Plans underneath would slide up or down out of the way. Right clicking a plan and 'Move Up' over and over again is a really tedious and old fashioned way of working. Being able to click, drag and drop plans to the position you want them would make things so much simpler and keep the app looking nice and modern too.

Do you think any of these ideas are good or are doable?

Thanks,

InternetFiend

I'm Scott, and focusme is the latest method I've added to my arsenal to help me manage life with ADHD. Thanks to the app creator(s) and happy getting-productive to my fellow users!

Right now the two options for website blocking are:

• My home page itself might be one of the pages I want blocked after a certain time limit (e.g. Gmail), which can lead to a runaway process
  
  
• In some browsers you can have multiple tabs as your home 'page', and a block opening all of them might be excessive
  

• Losing the ability to hit 'back' to return to more useful pages (e.g. if you get to a blocked site from an internal link on a useful or allowed one)
  
  
• A little harder to diagnose exactly what the blocked site was for / what its URL was accordingly, to further improve your plans
  
  
• If you're opening many new tabs / windows from a single page (e.g. a directory), it's possible to not even notice the closing / notification, which may lead to not knowing you're dealing with incomplete info
  

1. Allow redirecting to another page of the users choice — e.g. let me redirect blocked sites to Duolingo, a news feed I use, etc. to encourage me to be more productive
   
   
2. Allow the display of a stock page with information about what was blocked. (You can possibly expand this to also display a motivational message, as some web extensions do)
   

I have a plan which bans sites based on both URL and title, but has some websites in the whitelist.

When trying to access a whitelisted site (in this case, https://www.chess.com/puzzles), it gets blocked and I have a notification in the top right that it is being blocked by the same plan it is meant to be whitelisted on.

Is this the intended outcome?

I have "Device Sync" turned on for two devices - a Win10 desktop, and a Win10 laptop, both using Firefox in general. I set up everything on the desktop, then enabled sync on the laptop, and all my plans imported. (Not every setting, it seems, but the plans look fine.)

However - it appears that these plans are just *copies*, rather than true syncs, in terms of timer use. For example, my "Reddit for 20 Mins / Day" timer on my desktop can show a different value to the same timer on my laptop, and using Reddit on my desktop does not appear to count down my laptop timer (and vice versa).


Both devices have "Direction: Both" enabled in the Synchronization setting, though it's greyed out so I don't even really have a choice there.

Am I missing something else?

Hello FocusMe Team,

I really love your app, especially the fact that it is very hard to cheat and disable. 
However, I have unfortunately found a way to cheat on my video media limits (YouTube specifically) by playing the media on my monitor and then clicking a non-blocked process on my laptop screen. This allows me to use only a couple of seconds of my limit on opening the video and occasional pausing it, while the video itself can be of various lengths, sometimes longer than my 40min/day allowed time.
I was wondering if there is a way that the app could catch this? I imagine it would be difficult, but perhaps a solution would be to continue counting down the timer if the app catches YouTube playing a video in the background. 
I will note that this exploit only works on video-related blocks, things like social media or gaming (which require constant interaction) can't be used this way. 

Again, thanks for the great app!

If you want to block windows 10 store apps by process, you will not be able to use the Focusme helper tool to find the name of the process as it will give you ApplicationFrameHost.exe. To find the actual process that the app runs on you can use the command in the command prompt: "tasklist /APPS" after starting the target app. This will display all the processes which are being used to run windows store apps.

A few I have found from this and personally tested include:

• windows store: WinStore.App.exe
  
• Xbox app: XboxApp.exe
  
• Films & Tv: Video.UI.exe
  
• Microsoft Edge: MicrosoftEdge.exe
  
• Facebook Messenger: WinUAPEntry.exe
  

I'd like to keep the same plans and settings on my PC and laptop. I have turned the "Device Sync" on and created the 'FocusMeSync" inside my OneDrive.

But nothing is happening.

Do the plans suppose to automatically begin syncing across both devices, or do I need to do something else manually?

Thank you

Previously I used the Firefox add-on 'Leech Block' to control my distracting desires, but unfortunately it could not stop me from just going to Microsoft Edge which cannot be uninstalled!

Ideally I would eventually love to see all the functionality of Leech Block appeear in FocusMe, but for now, the most desirable thing would be more options for the different Time Periods you can select when using the Time Limit option of FocusMee.

FocusMe has the options of:

per hour
per day
per week
per month



Leech Block has these extra options:

15 mins
30 mins
2 hours
3 hours
4 hours
6 hours
8 hours
12 hours
2 days
3 days
4 days


Thanks for your efforts.

I see the links to them in the change log (https://focusme.com/download/addons/firefox/), but when I open them they just download a .xpi file that I don't know what to do with.