Sqwark! That's not work.
A dead-simple Mac focus guard. Say what you're doing, press Go, and a very judgemental parrot keeps you on it.
This isn't marketing and ads.
x.com steps aside in seconds.
- No account
- No dashboards
- No streaks
Off limits in a session, decided by rules: x.com, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LINE, Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Reddit, Netflix, Facebook, Twitch.
One verb. That's the app.
One menu-bar bird, one tiny popover, one settings pane. If a feature made it harder to use, it didn't ship.
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1
Say it.
Click the bird and type what you're doing. In your words, not a project picker.
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2
Go.
25, 50, 90, or any number of minutes. Pick what's off limits: social, chat, video, news, shopping.
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3
Drift? Sqwark.
Open X or LINE mid-session and only that window goes dark. Ten seconds to close it, or say it's work.
Only the window you shouldn't be in goes dark.
Not your whole screen, not your music, not the doc next to it. Works on a laptop. Works on a 49-inch monitor.
- Close tab: gone, and you're back in your work.
- This is work: let through, and logged.
- Do nothing: it steps aside. Nothing is ever killed.
One bird. Four moods.
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Off duty
No session. Shades down, just logging, never in the way.
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On watch
Session running. Shades up, eye open, minutes ticking in your menu bar.
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Sqwark!
You drifted. Ten seconds of parrot, then back to it.
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Trip report
End of day: where the time went, your top sinks, focus kept.
Privacy, in five lines.
A focus guard sees a lot. So it keeps almost all of it to itself.
- 1Everything lives in one file on your Mac. No account, no sync, no cloud.
- 2Query strings are stripped from every address before anything is stored.
- 3Rules decide the obvious cases. No AI involved for x.com or LINE.
- 4Bring your own Jev key and it's asked only when the rules can't tell: a YouTube tutorial from a YouTube hole.
- 5Password managers, banking, mail and private windows are never sent anywhere, and their titles aren't even stored.
Things it will never grow.
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