Projects
Named focus profiles that bundle app blocking, website blocking, and app launching.
A Project is a named, color-coded focus profile. It bundles three things:
- Which apps to block (or exclusively allow) — see App Blocking
- Which websites to block (or exclusively allow) — see Website Blocking
- Which apps to auto-launch and arrange — see Launch Apps
You assign a Project to a task. When that task's timer runs, the Project's rules take effect. A task with no Project assigned runs with no blocking at all.
Creating and managing Projects
Open the Projects screen — each Project appears as a card with its name and color dot.
- New — click New, give it a name and a color. Names can't contain spaces; use underscores instead.
- Configure — click a Project to open its configuration window with three tabs: Block Apps, Block Websites, and Launch Apps. Changes are staged until you hit Apply Changes (or Save & Close); closing with unsaved edits prompts you to discard or save.
- Edit / Duplicate / Delete — from the Project card. Deletion asks for confirmation and can't be undone.
- Default Project — one Project can be the default, applied to tasks that don't have an explicit Project.
Colors come from a fixed palette of 10 Apple-system-inspired swatches (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Teal, Cyan, Blue, Indigo, Purple, Gray).
Templates
Instead of configuring from scratch, start from a template — a one-click preset that pre-fills launch apps, blocked apps, and an auto-trigger mode:
| Template | Flavor |
|---|---|
| Developer | Launches VS Code, Terminal, Slack, Chrome in a tiled layout; blocks news and social sites |
| Writer | Distraction-free writing setup |
| Designer | Design tools, manual trigger |
| Student | Study apps, blocks entertainment |
| Business | Communication tools, manual trigger |
| Minimal | Launches only TextEdit; blocks almost everything else |
Only apps actually installed on your Mac are shown and applied — a "3/4 apps available" note tells you when something from the template is missing.
Bulk rule management
The Manage Rules Across Projects button opens a matrix view where you can edit app-blocking rules across all Projects at once — handy when you add a new distracting app and want it blocked everywhere.
Free vs Pro
| Capability | Free | Basic / Pro |
|---|---|---|
| View Projects, use the default Project's blocking | ✅ | ✅ |
| Number of Projects | 1 (the default) | Unlimited |
| Create, edit, delete, duplicate Projects; templates; launch automation | ❌ | ✅ |