![]() ![]() It’s a surprisingly effective way to retain motivation and focus. The Be Focused lets you get things done by breaking up individual tasks among discrete intervals, separated by short breaks. I don't like having to turn the ringer on just to hear the "break start/end" alarm go off.Īnyways, I LOVE this app and I'm glad I stumbled upon this. Staying on task seems is a real challenge for our screen-bound generation. I wish the alarms would still sound even when the phone is in "silent mode" or "ringer off" mode. While I love this app, I do have 1 issue (then again I may just not have the correct settings) that I wish it had (the phone/ipad versions). ![]() I haven't really dove too deep into the extra stuff this app may have but maybe when I get a little more freetime I'll explore it a little deeper. I find the Mac version more convenient, since most of my work is at the computer, but Im glad for. This app is very simple to use without having to too many "bells and whistles". I use Be Focused Pro daily, both on my iPhone and Mac. I stumbled on to this app while looking for useful study habits that actually help. With all the reading and studying that I have to do for nursing school, I was going insane (mostly because I can't stay focused for long periods of time) because I already have bad study habits and I just didn't know where to begin. I started off with the free version, which works great and is still used on my laptop, but ended up buying the pro-version for my phone/ipad when they had a huge discount on it. Seriously? Do you eat at McDonalds too much (where the default is just the way you like it) or what? The rest of the complaints seem to more of that kind of thinking: it wasn't set to MY preferences out of the box and I didn’t bother to look at the settings before complaining. But seriously, you knew you were setting an alarm from the app description yet you didn’t check the volume? OK, people do just just jump in and a gentler default would be nice, but it hardly seems something to downrated to a 3 about. Users can customize the timer settings, manage tasks, add notes and due dates, and block distracting apps and websites during work intervals. The only complaint I found to be actually true was that the default end-of-work alarm was too loud. Be Focused is a productivity app that helps users stay on task by breaking up individual tasks into intervals separated by short breaks. Yes, you can change the length of the work period and the length of breaks, yes, you can turn on a ticking sound and control its volume. I read through a bunch of negative reviews here, and they are all complaining about things that just are not true. There’s another Pomodoro-style app that I had been using that does the focus switch, but it doesn’t have the flexibility this one does, like pausing the work period and being able to log the task. I usually work with music so the alarm sounds are either lost, ignored, or too jarring. I only have one quibble with this app being less than great for me: I would like it to take the computer’s focus away from whatever I’m doing to the app so that I have to actually decide and click to keep working. ![]()
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