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FocusLens
7 posts in this category.
4 November 2026 · 4 min read
The FocusLens focus score, taken apart: four parts, four ceilings
One number out of 100 is easy to read and easy to misread. FocusLens builds its focus score from deep work, context switching, low distraction and your longest streak, and shows each part on its own bar so a bad day tells you what went wrong.
- FocusLens
- Productivity
4 November 2026 · 4 min read
Looking back: the timeline, the heatmap and reports you can take out of FocusLens
A per-session log for any day, one app at a time with its busiest day and typical session, a week drawn hour by hour, and weekly or monthly reports you can export as PDF or CSV. The four ways FocusLens lets you look back, and what each one is for.
- FocusLens
- Productivity
4 November 2026 · 4 min read
Goals that read from real usage: targets and limits in FocusLens
A goal you type once and then track by memory is a wish. FocusLens fills every goal's progress bar from the hours you actually logged: a daily target for the work you want more of, a limit for the time you want less of.
- FocusLens
- Productivity
4 November 2026 · 4 min read
Categories you can argue with: how FocusLens files your apps, and how to overrule it
Productive, communication, distracting, entertainment, utilities, neutral. FocusLens sorts every app into one of six categories by default, and the default will be wrong about somebody's job. Here is what each category does to your numbers, and how one override rewrites your whole history.
- FocusLens
- Productivity
20 October 2026 · 4 min read
How FocusLens tracks your day without asking for a single permission
No Screen Time API, no Accessibility access, no browser extension. FocusLens listens for the same app-activation notifications the Dock does, and that turns out to be enough to build a complete picture of where your attention went.
- FocusLens
- Privacy
- macOS
15 October 2026 · 4 min read
The twenty-three minute cost of a context switch, and how FocusLens counts it
Switching apps is free. Getting your head back into the work you left is not. FocusLens prices the disruptive switches at the figure interruption research gives, names the apps responsible, and groups the rapid-fire bursts so you can see them.
- FocusLens
- Productivity
10 October 2026 · 4 min read
Why our apps make no network requests, and the one exception
FocusLens has no network code at all. SweepyMac has one connection, for a signed malware definitions file. Here is what no telemetry means in practice, what we give up for it, and how you can check the claim yourself.
- Privacy
- Behind the apps
- SweepyMac
- FocusLens