So the idea behind postpone seems to me that days vary and sometimes it's pretty inconvenient to get blocked in the middle of something, but it still needs to happen at some point.
The way it works now, any postponed time is subtracted from the block time, shortening the block. So if you postpone a 60 minute block period by 10 minutes, you are only blocked for 50 minutes.
So firstly, I'd like to ask for the option to have any postponed time added to the end of the block period, so it postpones the entire block time. For example, if you postpone a 60 minute block for any amount of time, then after the delay you still get blocked for the full 60 minutes. In addition, if it runs into a second block time, it's just added on to end of the block period.
This would let me account for daily variations without making me feel like the postpone option is just a way to shorten the block period, something I find myself abusing. With this way there would be no benefit to postponing if I'm not actually in the middle of something.
Secondly, I'd also like to have the option to set the postpone time from a pool of minutes, rather than a number of activations. For example, I could set it so I have a pool of 60 minutes, and if I delay my first block period by 15 minutes, then I can only delay the others by a maximum of 45 minutes. And with this, I'd also like the option to cancel a delay if I finish something early, and regain any "unspent" postpone time.
For the record, the first bit is FAR more important to me than the second, which would just be nice.
Apologies if either has been suggested before, but I rarely come to the forums unless I have something to suggest.
I have a plan which blocks by minimizing some game launchers (Steam, Epic Games, among others). It works correctly for the other launchers, but with the Epic Games Launcher, it only works at the beginning. After some seconds (I guess when it finishes loading), it doesn't get minimized anymore.
Does anyone get the same problem with Epic or another similar program?
Hi. I'm a subscribed user for focused on PC and also use it on Android.
Can you please add the "auto enable plan daily" function in focusme for Android?
It's a very important function as otherwise sometimes I disable some plans if needed some day and then forgot to enable them again, so to choose the option to auto enable daily for some plans would be really useful on Android too.
I had one plan on 'Forced'. But for some reason the plan is not active on the needed times, but it won't allow me to change it. What can I do now?
Other plans did the same thing by the way. For some reason, the time function messes up the times I entered in.
I'm making new plans and I see this button called 'Random chars (8)'. What does this button do? I looked to find the answer somewhere, but I think I've missed it... Sorry!
When I have given myself an allowance of, say, 5 minutes per hour of browsing distracting websites, it would be really good to be able to carry over any unused minutes so they can accumulate over a certain number of hours.
Something that worked similarly to the Pause settings, where you enable it and then choose appropriate numbers, would be good. E.g.
- Enable the accumulation of unused allowances for this plan [Enable]
- Maximum time to carry over [ 00:00:40 ]
So if I didn't use all my the 5 minutes in the first hour, the allowance for the next hour would become 10 minutes (5 minutes for that second hour plus 5 carried over). If I didn't use any in that hour either, then in the third hour I could if I wanted to have 15 minutes. By specifying a maximum time to carry over, I'd be effectively saying that after a certain point it wouldn't accumulate any more, but I could set the limit high enough that I could potentially accumulate the whole day's allowances to use later if I wanted to.
This would avoid the situation where you're working well and don't want to use your 5 minutes of twitter right now, but you would like to use it later. At the moment, when the clock gets to 55 minutes past the hour, there's an unfortunate temptation to stop work so as not to 'waste' the 5 minutes twitter time for that hour. Being able to carry that five minutes over to the next hour, if it's not used in the first hour, would remove that temptation, but it would still leave the possibility of short breaks for twitter throughout the day.
I would like to add Discord to a plan, so I can block it for a while. But when I look in the tab 'installed', I can't find it.
How do I add Discord to Focusme?
I've been using FocusMe off and on, but decided to really take my advantages with it recently. I was on my socials way too much and so I've decided I need to use Focusme more drastically. Instead of having it turned off two hours or so, it's now blocked for half a day. I'm still getting used to it, but I hope to find more peace by doing this.
So, what are you guys up to with FocusMe? Does it help?
I installed the app recently both on my computer and on my phone. I have a complicated relationship with the digital world, as I tend to bury myself in it to avoid my real-life stresses, which only amplifies said stresses, and so I tend to enter a vicious cycle. I hope this app will help me put some safeguards so that my screen usage doesn't interfere anymore with my day-to-day life. So far I have some questions so I'll guess you'll see me in the help forum ^^
Glad to have found this community, thanks to the dev team for what seems to be an amazing and customizable tool.
Hello Everyone,