Basically the opposite of how the current “Time Limit” rule works.
Block distracting/blacklisted apps until you’ve spent a specified amount of time in productive/whitelisted apps.
This would be similar to a pomodoro, but would only grant a break after clocking in a certain amount of productive time.
A problem I have is that I can waste time doing neutral things (checking email, chat applications, busywork etc) until the pomodoro break begins. Then during the pomodoro break I have the freedom to do actually unproductive things (youtube, games)
The neutral time + unproductive time means that there’s a net loss of productivity overall.
e.g. 20 min neutral + 5 min unproductive = -5 min productive
What would be nice is if I could still do neutral tasks, but I can’t do any unproductive tasks until I complete a minimum amount of productive tasks.
This way I can’t cheat and wait for the pomodoro timer to end.
e.g. 20 min neutral + 20 min productive + 5 min unproductive = 15min productive
or for each 1 hour of studying (for example FM can see I opened OneNote) you will earn 20 min of extra time to play Apex legends. Of course, it won’t work for your child who will just keep OneNote open all day :), but will work for you personally – you won’t cheat yourself.
So many users requested this feature and also it is such a useful feature, still FocusME team didn’t trying to implementing this.
This could be game changer feature as it can significantly improve productivity.
This one, would be so epic.
Man! Have you heard about the Pomodoro feature in the FocusMe app?