A timer that lives on your actual day.
Most focus timers are a stopwatch in a separate app that knows nothing about your schedule. This one is the block you already planned, split into intervals and drawn round itself.
Included in Pro and the 7-day no-card trial.
A rhythm drawn round the block
Open any blocking block and split it into stretches of focus and break. The dial draws each focus stretch on the ring, with the breaks between them in the wavy Recharge pattern, and it redraws live as you change the minutes. The rhythm sits inside the one block, so you can still select, drag, repeat and sync that block as a single thing.
One screen, one block
Press F and Reassign opens a screen built for a single block: the real dial, your events and layers still on it, cropped to an arc and turning under a marker pinned at now. The turning is the countdown. Beside it a quiet panel names what you are in, how much is left, and what follows.
Adjust it while it runs
Tap an interval circle to mark it done, tap a future one to finish early, or add and drop intervals as the block runs. A block without a rhythm is simply one stretch of focus, which is a valid way to use it.
Know when to start and when to break
Turn on block and break alerts for a nudge when a block starts, a break begins or focus resumes. Alerts go to every device where you turn them on, up to your 50 most recently active, and Your devices in Push notifications settings sets each alert type per device. On iPhone and iPad, add Reassign to your Home Screen first. How block and break alerts work →
Marked intervals become the record
What you marked rolls into the day’s reflection and the “Focus by day” and “Focus by area” panels in Time Insights. Claude can read and set a block’s rhythm over MCP too.
Your rhythm, with optional sound
Choose a focus rhythm before starting: 25/5, 50/10, 90/15, custom lengths, or no breaks. Your choice is saved to your account. Pause and Continue work on any block. A pause draws as a break on the arc, so break time never counts as focus, and every later interval moves by its length. There is no skip control; finish the session when you need to stop. Sound controls cover focus and break bells and microtask completion, with an optional metronome. The screen stays awake while you work, and Esc returns to the day.
This page is the what and the why. For the step by step, the docs cover the same ground as instructions: Focus intervals and focus mode in the docs →
Questions
- Is this Pomodoro?
- It is the same idea, attached to a real block rather than a floating 25 minutes. Choose 25/5, 50/10, 90/15, custom lengths, or no breaks before starting; your choice is saved to your account.
- Can I pause it?
- Yes. Press Pause on any block, including one from a calendar you do not own, and Continue when you are back. The pause draws as a break at now and moves every later interval and break by its length. A pause during a break replaces the rest of that break. There is no skip control.
- Do focus intervals and focus mode cost extra?
- No. They share the same Pro entitlement, so there is no add-on. Pro is $14 a month or $120 a year, with a 7-day trial that needs no card.
