Tools that help me FOCUS

Tools that help me FOCUS

March 1, 2025

As you know, I spent some time in D&A field already.

A lot of what I have achieved, would not be possible w/o proper attention.

Time Management

Mind your time also during meetings

  1. Pomodoro:

Tracking your tasks can improve your focus, planning, and provide actionable insights

  1. Timelite

  2. Pomatez

#https://snapcraft.io/pomatez
sudo snap install pomatez

More Concentration Tools

You can use many of this OSS tools for free, just with proper configuration:

I really enjoy placing this as background sound:

  1. https://nextbeats.vercel.app/

MIT | A modern, open-source lofi experience powered by Next.js

  1. https://github.com/Eigenfocus/eigenfocus

All-in-One Self-Hosted Project Management, Time Tracking and Focus App

Reading Focus

How about having a proper news feed?

I mean, Selfhostable and RSS Feeds!

MIT | Generate rich RSS feeds from Reddit, Hacker News, Lemmy, and Mbin

Video

  1. Piped
  2. NewPipe

Productivity

Super-Productivity

MIT | Super Productivity is an advanced todo list app with integrated Timeboxing and time tracking capabilities. It also comes with integrations for Jira, Gitlab, GitHub and Open Project.

Conclusions

If you follow the one thing at a time rule: kanban will definitely resonate with you.


FAQ

Other Productivity Tools

  1. Focalboard

  2. DrawIO Diagrams

  3. LeanTime

  4. For note taking apps: see trilium, joplin or logseq

Other F/OSS Tools to Track our Time Online*

  1. ActivityWatch - It is Cross Platform.
  2. Wakatime + VSCode - A self-hosted WakaTime-compatible backend for coding statistics.