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Focus sessions and timers

Protect your focus by saying how long: distracting sites and apps stay away until it ends, now or booked every morning, plus as many timers as you need.

FreeMacChrome extension

Choose an example to copy it, then try it in Jevie.

Use itHow it worksLimitsWhere it's kept

Use it

Focus

• focus for 25 minutesX, YouTube, Reddit and the usual distractions kept away
• start a 1 hour focus session on the proposal blocking slackYour goal, and what to keep away
• focus for an hour without twitter.comAny site, by its address
• focus 50 minThe length said alone is enough
• how much time is leftstop focusstop focusingCheck the session, or end it early
• pause focusresume focusextend focus by 10 minutesThe time left held while paused (nothing kept away), then carried on, or made longer
• focus againThe last session's length, goal and blocked sites and apps, started again
• block distractions every morning from 9 to 11focus weekdays at 9 for 2 hoursBooked ahead
• my focus scheduleThe bookings, each removable

Timers

• timer 10 minutesset a timer for 5 min for teastart a pomodoroSeveral can run at once
• pause the tea timeradd 5 minutes to the timerPaused, resumed or extended
• how long left on my timercancel all timersCheck or stop them

How it works

While a session runs, a tab on a blocked site shows a quiet page with your goal and the time left, and a blocked app is hidden. Nothing is closed or quit, so everything is back the moment the session ends.

Sessions and timers keep time by the clock, so one that ends while the Mac sleeps is announced when it wakes.

Limits

• One focus session at a time, at most 10 hours.
• Sites are kept away in Chrome with Jevie's extension; apps are hidden, not quit.
• Booked sessions count toward the scheduled automations your plan includes.

Where it's kept

The running session in ~/.jevie (its own file, not the palette's focus); bookings in ~/.jevie/automations.json.

In Jevie, help focus answers from this page as you type.

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Updated 29 October 2026 · Something wrong or missing? Tell us