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v7.16.0

Notch Timer: a Dynamic Island for Your Focus Sessions

What's New

✨ New Features

  • Notch Timer (Pro): a new countdown style that turns the MacBook notch into a dynamic island for your focus session — requested by the community and inspired by NotchFlow:
    • Hugging the notch: remaining time on one side, a progress ring on the other, in a pitch-black island that blends into the hardware notch; on displays without a notch (and with a hidden menu bar) it appears as a floating island at the top center
    • Hover to expand: the island smoothly unfolds into a card with your task name, session status, a large progress ring with completion percentage, and pause / +5 min / complete controls
    • Focusmo wave: the card slowly fills with a calm wave in your timer color as the session progresses; during breaks the island rests "under water" in the break color
    • Live activity: the island opens by itself for a few seconds on session transitions — "Time's up", "Break time", "Back to focus" — and gently pulses on pause or task switch
    • Quick gestures: click the island to pause/resume, double-click to open Focusmo, pull it down to add 5 minutes
    • Pomodoro cycles & music: the expanded card shows your pomodoro cycle dots and the track currently playing in Spotify or Apple Music
    • Always ready: with no session running the island melts into the notch — hover it and start your next task right from the notch
    • Select Notch under Settings → Appearance → Countdown Style
  • Start another block: when a session ends, start the next one with a single click — same task, same duration
  • Welcome back: after a few days away, Focusmo offers a quick 10-minute session to get going again
  • Day-2 reminder: a one-time notification the day after your first focus session
  • Enter Deep Focus is now available from the ⋯ menus

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • The floating timer no longer disappears when you unplug an external monitor
  • Sessions started from the calendar or the day planner now run for the full length of the block
  • "Focusmo Help" and "Send Feedback…" in the Help menu open the right pages
  • A calendar block that can't be moved to a slot snaps back instead of staying where it was dropped
  • The daily goal progress no longer shows 0% until you change the goal
  • The License pane shows your actual plan, and subscribers are no longer shown as being on a trial
  • Clearer message when Focus Mode (Do Not Disturb) needs its Shortcuts set up
  • Turning on a feature that needs a macOS permission now explains which one and can open System Settings
  • Task list shortcuts no longer fire while you're typing
  • Tasks created in the day planner land in your default Project, and renaming a task keeps its other settings

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