Focus Sessions: Pomodoro & Deep Work

Tracking shows you where time goes. Sessions are how you take some of it back: a timed block where you commit to one piece of work, and FocusNow keeps the clock.

The Focus page

FocusNow opens on Focus. At the top you pick a mode:

• Pomodoro: 25 minutes by default. A short sprint for tasks you've been avoiding, or a warm-up when starting feels hard.
• Deep Work: 90 minutes by default. A long block for the work that needs your whole brain.
• Short Break and Long Break: 5 and 15 minutes by default. Breaks run on the timer only and are never recorded.

Every length is yours to change, from 1 to 180 minutes, in Settings → Focus & Sessions. The same place lets breaks or the next focus block start on their own, and sets how many sessions come before a long break.

Press Start, and pause or resume whenever you need to. When you're done, End session: it's saved with its real length, even if that's shorter than planned. A summary replaces the timer so you can see what the block looked like.

Work on one task

Below the timer sits your task list. Pick the task you're about to work on and it shows up on the timer. Each task shows the time spent against your estimate, how much is left and roughly when you'll finish. You can also start a Pomodoro or Deep Work block straight from the Tasks page.

A task's actual time adds up from the sessions you ran for it plus any tracked records you linked to it, so estimates get more honest week by week. If you like, a task can check itself off when its estimate is reached.

Keep the timer in view

In Settings → Focus & Sessions you can turn on the session widget, a small floating timer that stays on screen during a session (Small or Large). It has its own pause and resume button, so a phone call doesn't cost you the block. Two more helpers live in the same place:

• End reminder: the timer pulses a few seconds before the session ends, so the finish never surprises you.
• Completion chime: a soft sound when time is up.

Focus Music

The top bar has a small player: music stations (Lo-fi, Jazzy, Night, Rainy, Ambient) and background noise (brown, pink or white), each with its own volume. Noise works offline. Turn on Start with focus sessions and the sound starts with a focus block, pauses with it and fades out on breaks. Nothing plays until you choose to.

Reading your history

Switch the Focus page from Timer to History. Sessions are grouped by day, and each row shows the type, when it started and how much of the target you reached ("21m of 25m"). Click any row for the full detail: every app and site you touched during that session.

That detail is an honest mirror. A Deep Work block where 30 minutes went to a distracting site isn't a failed session; it's exactly the information you need to place the next one better. Cross-check it with your best hours in How Your Focus Score Works.

Need to clean up? Use Select in History to delete several sessions at once. And if a session was interrupted, just start another. The history judges nothing; it only remembers.

Billing a session

If you use timecards, a finished focus session can become a timecard entry, and the timecard timer can run alongside a Pomodoro or Deep Work block.