What's an app that helps you avoid distractions while working?

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I'm looking for a product that will help me stay focused on the task at hand. Any favorites?

Lisa Dziuba · Accepted Answer

or any web Pomodoro timer can help :)

Pavan Sethi · Answer

One of my favorite apps :)  Set a timer for how long you cannot touch your phone.  The more time you stay focused, the more coins you get to plant virtual trees in your forest (if you touch your phone, your tree dies!).  The best part is that coins can eventually be used to plant real trees!

Flavio Ludgero · Answer

You can use Cuckoo in your private room or with your team and everyone will be focused and productive.

Peter Nelson · Answer

It helps me to monitor my working activity and it's really good!

J.F. Stockland · Answer

There is this great app that has been around for a few thousand years called 'self-discipline'.

Lisa Dziuba · Answer

Toggl is more for time tracking, but it helps you keep the focus on actually making the task. And you can see how much time you worked.

Hugo Fauquenoi · Answer

You can focus on your work and get back to what happened without the need to stay plugged in chat all day

Matt Heslington · Answer

I can't believe this isn't first on the list. My go-to app for when I really need to focus and get things done. There's some sorcery behind it, as that music always gets the productivity juices flowing. Amazing stuff.

Filip Defar · Answer

Here's one that I made. You define a list of websites that you want to avoid and whenever you try to access it forces you to wait 15 seconds before you can access them. This gives you time to change your mind and get back to work. It worked pretty well for me, as I would often not even realize that I started scrolling through Facebook again.

Debopriyo Basu · Answer

Bashful is a very simplistic timer that blocks you from using your phone for a set period of time that you decide.

Yiliya Tang · Answer

It's a great app.

Angie · Answer

A great way to get tasks done.

André Gauci · Answer

Great tool that I've recently discovered. Simple and effective.

Philipp Bohn · Answer

Ambient noise is surprisingly helpful to stay productive

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I use this app to avoid distraction because this app can help you lock all your other apps. Every time I need to focus on something really important, I just lock all my apps and put my phone away. On the one hand, I can stop checking my phone and stay focus. On the other hand, I knew that my phone is safe with AppLock.

Amamiya Hotaru · Answer

A great way to get my phone protected.

Josephine Hejay · Answer

It made my phone safe.

Larry Kokoszka · Answer

Ghost Browser lets you save tab lists into isolated tab sets called Tasks. I put all of my distracting websites like email social media and project management tools into one "Task" and only open it a couple of times per day when I really need it. The rest of the time I'm doing deep work without the distractions.

Larry Kokoszka · Answer

Ghost Browser lets you save tab lists into isolated tab sets called Tasks. I put all of my distracting websites like email social media and project management tools into one "Task" and only open it a couple of times per day when I really need it. The rest of the time I'm doing deep work without the distractions.

Frank Goortani · Answer

Helps me block the chatter in the office!

Quentin Zervaas · Answer

Doing a little bit of the same thing every day helps build new habits and get things done.

Maxim Ananov · Answer

If you're using a Mac that's exactly what this app does. Most distractions come from other windows and visual clutter. Your alternatives would be manually closing/hiding windows or going full screen. Full screen is awkward on big screens and micromanaging windows takes discipline and time. HazeOver works automatically so you don't have to adjust to it or change your work flow.

Prattusha C · Answer

They make customized social media posts along with creatives, that is backed up with well researched social media strategies.

Chris Messina · Answer

Great app for forcing disconnection from distractions.

Chris Messina · Answer

Great app for forcing disconnection from distractions.

Chris Messina · Answer

Great way to disable those red notification counts in your apps when you're in Do Not Disturb mode!

Tejaswi R · Answer

If you find yourself browsing news, blogs, or other websites during an important project, this chrome extension does what it says. It shows you an "inspiring" message which will ask you to go back and go f#(king work :)

Marcin Krzywonos · Answer

Less clicking. Finally not looking for resources you need right now

Aynul Habib · Answer

It's easy to switch browsers with some of the Chrome providers and get tripped, it's a notch harder to work around this one.

Matt Lovato · Answer

Teams in Samepage are designed to keep all of your project content and conversations organized, so you'll only get notified about progress that is important to you.  Samepage also combines Slack, Trello, Asana, and your file sharing tool of choice into a single platform, so you'll spend less time hopping between multiple apps to work with your team. Samepage can even integrate with over 700+ different apps to bring notifications and content into Samepage, making it a single place for your whole team to focus on getting the job done.

Olivier de Locht · Answer

You can easily create a list of website to blocks during a period

Sami Ben Hassine · Answer

Contains deep work sessions.

Sami Ben Hassine · Answer

Deep work sessions.

Nicolet Groen · Answer

An excellent app and website blocker that keeps you productive. I can block all my social media, individual websites, messengers and email when I need to work.
(oh, and it syncs with all your devices so no excuses not to work!) I bought it a week ago and boy it helps me to focus!

Adam Behn · Answer

Use it with Trello!

Alexandra Cote · Answer

It tracks your time so that you know that your tasks are being monitored accurately in terms of timing. Makes you work harder in a short amount of time in my opinion.

Fruzsi Peti · Answer

definitely the best one (:

Dionis Loire · Answer

Simple and does the job.

Pavel · Answer

TimeBit helps to focus on current and distract less. It`s a combination of timer & to-do list & routine builder made to keep focus on what`s really matters.

Wen Yin · Answer

Really enjoy

bazingagag · Answer

Mobile security is more and more important nowadays, that’s why I think no matter who you are, what you do. You will need an app to protect your phone!

I am using this app called ‘AppLock’, which is amazing because it can lock all of my apps, images even videos. This app is always on my list when it comes to app recommendation.

The one thing that I like the most about this app is that it can take photos of the person who’s trying to unlock your phone! This feature is really funny because I always got the intruder selfie notification from my kids. They are trying really hard to unlock my phone for video games.

If you are a cautious people, you really do need one of this app.

Sabra Rubinstein · Answer

Love this app! I didn't realize how much I pick up my phone while working on projects till I started using it.

Ohad Ron · Answer

I use the option that limits Facebook / Twitter / News sites time to 20 minutes a day. Very useful.

Siobhan O'Rorke · Answer

You can block certain websites while you're focusing (premium feature), but the main thing I love is that it tracks how much time you spend & where online & on your computer, which is super helpful if you need to figure out where all your time has gone :) You can learn a lot about yourself while using it.

Eivind Lindbråten · Answer

This is my favourite pomodoro app. Really well designed.

Sachin Baheti · Answer

Measure, evaluate and improve employee productivity with this simple yet super-sassy slack application. Team members can plan, log and view all tasks and actions with just five commands to get started. Team admins, in addition, get a dashboard to view, review and assess planned versus executed tasks of each team member month to month, week to week, day to day or hour-to-hour. Call it a #TimelyIntervention

Nicholas Lusskin · Answer

Super simple and insanely effective. Just set some time and you're done, or schedule time that you don't want to be bothered. Blocks notifications and access to apps for those who can't stay away :)

Stephen Weiss · Answer

I've used a bunch of the recommended ones, but Tide's simplicity is clutch. Easy to open and get started. It's mobile so it goes with me.

unity simpson · Answer

i loveeeeeee it

Praveen Baskar · Answer

I use this product to limit my time on social media sites

Udit Chugh · Answer

Simple. Easy. Available everywhere.

Danny Guo · Answer

I made this for myself to stop procrastinating. It uses animal pictures for a bit of fun.

Alexander Ose · Answer

I wrote a Pomodoro timer that I'm quite fond of.  Admittedly, I'm biased.  It's simple and stripped-down, and it's 100% client side.

Kelsey McLeod · Answer

I use this to block all distractions for a period of time— they're blocked in incognito, if you restart your computer, or use another browser. No way around it.

Petr Nagy · Answer

Highly customizable pomodoro timer combined with task manager and time tracker