Wow. I wanted a bigger clock displayed while I edited a notepad document on another part of my widescreen laptop, sitting in a cafe. I would use Write if it was part of windows but alas… Instead of any display settings there are the possibilities of the app for busy people. And here the focus session is explained some more than what I could gather from the app. Which doesn’t have an “about” bullet point or any help menu.
Now, I’ve been tinkering and working with computers for almost 40 years, various tasks like data entry, report writing, sometimes under windows, also using linux for a few years after the demise of XP, gaming quite often. I don’t have a spotify account, youtube fulfills much more than my music needs, I don’t get notifications, turned off whatsapp notifications on my phone because of the pictures I get sent sometimes, I’m not sure mine is a unique way of using computers – to do something distraction free I certainly need no separate app to tell me how, even though I get distracted a lot, it is by choice, I just can’t concentrate, no app can help that. I wonder if all those options to guard a user from distractions apply to more than a few thousand users in the whole world. Anyway, just typing this because I feel like it and because I can do it on my wonderful lenovo g580 keyboard. With an “Activate windows” nag screen for now. So wonderfully superfluous, the article and my comment.
Hey Boris. Thanks for sharing your perspective. It’s been fun reading it. I wish you good luck in your mission to improve your concentration. For me it’s been difficult to do that in the last couple of weeks.
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Wow. I wanted a bigger clock displayed while I edited a notepad document on another part of my widescreen laptop, sitting in a cafe. I would use Write if it was part of windows but alas… Instead of any display settings there are the possibilities of the app for busy people. And here the focus session is explained some more than what I could gather from the app. Which doesn’t have an “about” bullet point or any help menu.
Now, I’ve been tinkering and working with computers for almost 40 years, various tasks like data entry, report writing, sometimes under windows, also using linux for a few years after the demise of XP, gaming quite often. I don’t have a spotify account, youtube fulfills much more than my music needs, I don’t get notifications, turned off whatsapp notifications on my phone because of the pictures I get sent sometimes, I’m not sure mine is a unique way of using computers – to do something distraction free I certainly need no separate app to tell me how, even though I get distracted a lot, it is by choice, I just can’t concentrate, no app can help that. I wonder if all those options to guard a user from distractions apply to more than a few thousand users in the whole world. Anyway, just typing this because I feel like it and because I can do it on my wonderful lenovo g580 keyboard. With an “Activate windows” nag screen for now. So wonderfully superfluous, the article and my comment.
Hey Boris. Thanks for sharing your perspective. It’s been fun reading it. I wish you good luck in your mission to improve your concentration. For me it’s been difficult to do that in the last couple of weeks.
I love the Focus session feature!