Maintaining deep focus while doing your job or studying is vital. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to achieve. Most people can only maintain their focus for a short time. After starting work on a difficult task, distractions grab your attention and before long you’re barely productive anymore. Some people use schedules and set deadlines for tasks to motivate and remind them to keep on track. However, this still isn’t a guarantee of productivity. If you’ve tried everything and still can’t stay on task, try out the Focus Bear app. It helps you maintain your focus by blocking distractions across all your devices.
It might feel like a moral failing to have to get external support to be focused. But the reality is that so many apps and websites are designed to steal your attention that you either need to be superhuman or make tech your ally and use an app like Focus Bear to fight back.
The way Focus Bear works is it notices if you open an app that isn’t necessary for the work you’re doing. It will gently ask you if you really need this site. If you do need access to the site, the app gets out of your way.
If you don’t, it will immediately block it for you.
The blocking functionality works across all your devices to help fight the urge to check social media on your phone when you’ve got a challenging task to complete.
As well as the productivity features, Focus Bear also helps build healthy habits in the morning and evening.
You define what habits you want to do in the morning and evening and the app will walk you through each habit one at a time. Where relevant (e.g. for exercise/meditation), the app will also play an embedded Youtube video to increase motivation.
One other useful feature of the app is brain breaks. The app will periodically remind you to get away from your desk to stretch your muscles so you don’t end up with neck strain or screen headaches.
The design of the app is influenced by research provided by its team of neuroscience advisors. The combination of distraction blocking and habit guidance has been carefully calibrated to follow recent studies in maximising focus. Read more about the science behind Focus Bear here.
If you’d like to try out the app, it’s got a 31 day free trial. Check it out on the Focus Bear website.