Centered Groups

Make work fun, do it with friends

5.0•11 reviews•

15 followers

Make work fun, do it with friends

5.0•11 reviews•

15 followers

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Centered Groups connect you with your friends & teammates while keeping you in the zone. Get your ToDo’s done in a featured Group or create your own where you can take breaks together. Whether you are working on the same thing or not, go further...together.

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Launch tags:Productivity•Remote Work•Community

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Big fan of Centered — and multiplayer mode for focused virtual coworking in Groups is a welcome addition! Remote work necessitates finding new ways of social connecting while being productive. This is an important trend to watch. ?makers which demographics has Centered found the most traction with to date (I imagine students, but who else)?

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4yr ago

Sukha

Maker

@chrismessina, you're 100% right about students + a bunch of the community is knowledge workers - people who needs to go heads down for a few hours a day to do their deep work. This has led to seeing Groups for engineers, designers, architects, writers and others. We've also got thriving groups for people with ADHD and neurodivergent folks who come to support each other to get their work done. Ulf and I are surprised each day with the new Groups that pop up in the platform and we are super grateful that people are getting enough value to keep inviting friends. We are also grateful to our teammates at Centered who used Centered to help build the platform. Kinda meta, isn't it?

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4yr ago

Audio Writer iOS

@chrismessina @steven_puri curious why students find it interesting? congrats on the launch, btw :)

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4yr ago

Sukha

Maker

@chrismessina @pradeeb28 Thanks for the question. We have heard from students that Centered Groups are like the modern reinvention of the study hall: a quiet place to see their friends as they all do their homework...but with beautiful scientifically-based Flow Music and a coach to keep them on track. The ability to see their friends and know their friends can see them ("Social Facilitation Theory") boosts productivity, plus they can cheer each other on on breaks. Students who are studying remotely or wish to study with friends at other institutions enjoy those benefits even more since they don't have the option of going to a study hall IRL with their friends.

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4yr ago

Great idea, I really want to go offline already...) Is there a function to search communities by location, to find similarly productive people and at least sometimes meet them live?

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4yr ago

@diana_sfera love your enthusiasm! Not yet, but that's an amazing idea. Thank you!!

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4yr ago

Sukha

Maker

@diana_sfera Diane - There is not yet, but that's a fantastic idea and we will discuss it internally! Getting great feedback is a real benefit of PH.

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4yr ago

@sammilin Glad to be of help!It would be great if you could make it happen soon! I see your product that way and with a good future!

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4yr ago

@steven_puri Yes, you're right! PH provides excellent opportunities for growth👍🏼

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4yr ago

Sealit

Centered is totally great! First of all - interface is beautiful, clean and pleasant! It has so simple and intuitive system for organizing tasks and so nice concept to keep you focused on what you have to do, I totally like it! Big congrats on the launch! ^___^ Is it possible to have a longer overview (like monthly) or the idea is actually to keep you weekly active and focused on small tasks step by step? :))

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4yr ago

@maria_brm very kind words! Thank you so much for the support. Let me pull in our creator and master of the Centered Calendar to answer your question. @nicoespeon take it away!!

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4yr ago

Sukha

Maker

@maria_brm you are right. The idea is indeed to focus on getting your work done. That's why the "zoom level" is daily: it helps you decide how much work you can tackle NOW, and get to it 🎯 Centered Groups helps you do that to: the energy of working with others right now will help you get things done. If you have a Google Calendar account, I recommend to connect it (Settings > Integrations). It will bring up your events, tell you when you need to stop working so you don't miss your next meeting, schedule your own sessions, and attend others'. I like to use GCal for planning ahead (weekly/monthly view). Then, I use Centered to get in the zone during the day. That being said, it's in the plans to help you have a retrospective on your work done, and plan ahead. These will be in different, dedicated tabs. Home is here to help you get to it, right now. Does that answers your questions? 😃

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4yr ago

Sealit

@sammilin You are very welcome! Centered Groups definitely deserves a big support! And I must say - bravo to the whole team! ^__^

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4yr ago

Sealit

@nicoespeon Brilliant! *___* Endless thanks Nicolas for the detailed explanation and the tips! ^___^ I will be more than happy to join the crew of Centered Groups users! *__*

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4yr ago

Centered sounds like the perfect productivity app for me. It even integrates with TodoIst which I am fond of. Really curious to try and see if it adds to my productivity.

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4yr ago

@alexander_eble let us know what you think!! If you'd like a personal onboarding, we'd love to show you around.

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4yr ago

Sukha

Maker

@alexander_eble Alexander - Please reach out with any questions about the Todoist integration! Best, - Steven

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4yr ago

@sammilin @steven_puri I just wanted to give Centered a try but realized it's not available for Linux. That's a pity!

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4yr ago

@steven_puri @alexander_eble we don't have any immediate plans for Linux yet, but I'd love to capture your upvote on our Canny Feedback page: https://centered.canny.io/featur... We review this often and it definitely influences our roadmap. :-) In the meantime, you might want to check out Centered in any web browser. I know it's not quite like the desktop experience but it serves well enough.

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4yr ago

I love productivity tools (after all, I wrote a book about productivity). I usually test a new tool and find it somewhat helpful, but I don't end up integrating it into my work routine because the benefits are not worth the hassle. This was not the case with Centered Groups. They are now an integral part of my daily workflow. I love focusing on my tasks, accompanied by my friends and online community. We get so much done together!

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4yr ago

@anaavila I am so grateful we connected! I love having you and your community a part of our Centered Movement. Also, your group's coach lines in Espanol are 🔥!!!!!

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4yr ago

Sukha

Maker

@anaavila So glad you have you in the Centered Movement, Ana.

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4yr ago

Sukha

@anaavila @sammilin Ana's coach lines are my favorite!

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4yr ago

I love this product and use it every day. It helps keep me both organized and motivated and I love how it serves me up the next task as soon as I finish the last. Great music curation too to help with focus. Also a great way to do time tracking for clients as well as a record of what I've worked on when. I bought a super cute notebook at the beginning of the year that I haven't used at all since I started with Centered. RIP, cute notebook.

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4yr ago

@maureen_blandford sounds like you are getting the most from Centered, well done! I appreciate your energy in our beautiful community.

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4yr ago

Sukha

Maker

@maureen_blandford Sorry about the notebook...but super happy about your productivity!🙏🏼❤️

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4yr ago

Congrats on the launch! 🎉 I recently started to use Groups and I'm pretty confident that I'll keep it up :)

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4yr ago

Sukha

Maker

@eleftheria_batsou thank you Elef! Which group are you working with? I like to be in the "Freakin Nerds" these days :)

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4yr ago

Sukha

Maker

@eleftheria_batsou We are here for you...and love your input as we iterate based on feedback!

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4yr ago

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5.0

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Reviewers describe Centered Groups as a simple, effective way to stay focused while adding accountability and light social connection. Users repeatedly praise the easy desktop flow: setting goals, working in timed focus sessions, taking breaks, and getting gentle nudges when they drift to distracting sites. Several say it helps with procrastination, ADHD, and estimating task time more realistically. Groups are seen as a useful extension, letting people co-work, chat on breaks, and even use optional camera check-ins, though detailed criticism is largely absent from these reviews.

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I have used Centered every day, including weekends, I believe without a gap since the product was introduced to me by my marketing manager. I absolutely love how easy the product is to use and how precisely it helps focus my productivity. I'm a writer, book editor, writing instructor, and book coach, so with a lot of hats to wear, I have a LOT of balls to keep in the air every day. I've tried so many other tools (many that integrate with other software products) to manage my time and work, but all the others took my too long to use and became cumbersome to incorporate into a daily routine. I use Centered like a virtual to-do list plus coworking space in one. The Pomodoro timer has been instrumental in my ability effectively manage time I spend on each task. So much so that I have discovered time leakage that I didn't realize I had. (The old "this will take me 15 minutes but it really required 90!") I am slow to adopt complicated technology and software and Centered is easy to use, immediately satisfying, and the simple but effective design has changed the way I work every day. It's been a game-changer, and I'm thrilled to be able to use it in my business, but even more so to help reach my personal goals.

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