A focus timer with a notepad right beside it

Most of my distractions used to come from switching apps. Focusbox is a focus timer with notes built into the same window, so the thing I'm working on and the clock for it never live in two different places.

For years my setup was a timer in one app and notes in another. Every time I needed to jot a thought, I'd leave the timer, land in a notes app, see something else, and lose the thread. The fix turned out to be obvious: put the timer and the notepad side by side and never leave.

The left side is the focus pane. There's a countdown ring with a few presets — 30 minutes, an hour, longer — and you can add time mid-session without resetting. Under it sits a small task list you check off as you go, with a quiet count of what's left. That's the whole timer. No phases to configure, no streaks to keep alive.

The right side is a plain markdown notepad. A light toolbar gives you headings, bold, italic, lists, and checkboxes — enough to keep a session's thinking in order without turning into a document editor. It's one notes page, always there, so you write where you work instead of hunting for the right file.

There's no time-tracking and no scoring anywhere in it. The point is to spend the session doing the work, not reviewing a dashboard about the work. You can try it in your browser right now, or read more about the whole idea on the Focusbox home page.