Tag Archives: Distraction Free

FlyingWindows Keeps Only One Mac App Window In Focus To Help You Concentrate Better

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Working without distractions isn't easy unless you make a deliberate effort to minimize them in the first place. As far as distractions created by people around you are concerned, you could perhaps hang a Do Not Disturb sign outside your room or office, but that still won’t stop the distractions that appear on your Mac’s screen in the form of emails, instant messages or even your web browser. FlyingWindows is a free Mac app that helps you stay focused in an unconventional way. Most apps that help you stay focused do so by restricting access to certain unnecessary apps or blocking websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. What FlyingWindows does is that it keeps only a single app’s window to in focus, and minimizes all the rest. This ensures that while you're working, all other apps are kept out of sight. You can choose to either minimize apps or hide them. Now, you might need more than a single app to work with, and would prefer if they were not minimized or hidden, which is why you have the option to whitelist certain apps to keep them from being minimized. Read More

FocusWriter Provides A Distraction Free Environment For Writers

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Writing is a task best accomplished when there is nothing to distract you from the project at hand. Whether you're a story writer working on your novel, a student who needs to meet the dead line of his assignment, or a journalist who must jot down the news broke out early morning. Sometimes, it so happens that even the interface of an application can start to distract you from the article or novel you are working on, causing you to lose focus. FocusWriter Portable is, as the name suggests, is a portable application that is designed to offer a minimalist interface, providing you with a distraction free environment, in order to keep you focused on what you are writing. The full screen mode of the application offers only a blank page with a cursor, leaving you and your mind with a cluttered free environment. It does not mean that FocusWriter portable is void of text editing features; it offers you all the basic text editing options such as Bold, Italic, Underline, Align Text etc. You can also change background themes of the application and set daily goals for writing a minimum number of words per day. Read More

Undistractr – Close All Distracting Application Windows With One Click

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Ever wanted to close certain applications, that disrupt your project work, with a single click? Many a times we open applications to perform numerous tasks, and instead of closing them down, we have to minimize them (one by one) to keep our focus on the main task. If you find yourself closing or adjusting each application window manually, you’d be better off using Undistractr for this purpose. It’s a small utility which closes all the user-specified applications with a click. You create a list of applications which distract you from working on important tasks. When you want to close them,  just click Undistract me to close all the pre-defined applications. Read More

HideAllApps – Hide All Applications Except Selected Ones In Mac

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What would be the best way to mitigate the loss that open applications and workspaces incur over your focus while working on important projects? We sometimes lose focus when working because it requires opening multiple applications and workspaces for getting references and other information. Since minimizing, adjusting or closing each application window greatly disrupts the project work, an application to hide all the inactive or passive application windows after defined amount of time may come extremely handy. One such unique application for Mac is HideAllApps. It’s a miniscule application which sits in system dock, showing all opened applications, workspaces, and Finder windows. You can select any window to keep it always up front on screen while it will hide all the remaining windows automatically after a defined interval. Read More

Haze Over Applies Fade Effects On Inactive Windows To Reduce Distraction [Mac]

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If you’re doing some project work which compels you to deal with multiple workspaces, it becomes quite a nuisance when you have to move from one app to another to cross-check some references, compare lists, etc. With newly developed Haze Over app, you can pretty much mitigate the loss that multiple active applications may incur over your focus. It is menu bar app for Mac which is responsible to fade underlying (not active) windows, so users can keep their focus straight on current workspace while keeping tab on other windows but with less distraction. As a result, this increases the overall productivity. Read More