Harnessing the Waves of Focus: An ADHD-Friendly App for Maintaining Concentration

You wake up and check your schedule for the day. A report deadline, a coding task, creating documents. You have a mountain of things to do, yet for some reason, your body won't move. You pick up your smartphone, and before you know it, 30 minutes have passed. The morning slips by with only a growing sense of panic. Have you ever experienced this? It takes an unusually long time to start a task, and even while working, you find yourself opening one browser tab after another, looking at unrelated websites. Conversely, when you're on a roll, you hyperfocus and forget to take breaks, only to find later that your mind is foggy and you can't get anything done. This isn't a matter of weak willpower. For people with ADHD traits, traditional time management methods are often not a good fit.

Work for 25 minutes, take a 5-minute break. While the Pomodoro Technique is beloved worldwide, it presents a major problem for people with ADHD. Just when you've finally entered a state of focus, the timer goes off and interrupts you. Conversely, even when you can't concentrate at all, you still have to wait for 25 minutes. This rigid time structure can actually become a source of stress. The same goes for multi-functional task management tools. With features like categorization, priority setting, and sub-task creation, the more functions there are, the more complex the operation becomes, moving you further away from the actual goal of "starting the work."

FlowTime's greatest feature is that the break time is automatically adjusted according to your work time. If you work for 25 minutes, you get a 5-minute break; for 50 minutes, you get a 10-minute break. In other words, 20% of your work time is allocated as break time. This system allows you to concentrate for longer periods when you're in the zone, and to take a break as soon as your focus wanes. It achieves truly personalized time management that adapts to the rhythm of your brain. The hyperfocus associated with ADHD can be a double-edged sword, but by taking breaks at the right moments, you can prevent burnout from extreme fatigue and maintain stable productivity.

No complex setup is required. Simply press the large button in the center of the screen to start a focus session. When you want to end your work, you just press the same button. You are then presented with simple choices: take a break or move on to the next task. Keyboard shortcuts are also fully supported: use the K or P key to start and pause the timer, and the Enter key to proceed to the next action. You can operate it without touching the mouse, allowing you to maintain your train of thought. This extremely simplified design significantly lowers the barrier to starting a task.

On the statistics dashboard, you can check your focus hours for today, this week, this month, and this year. By looking at the trends in bar and line graphs, you can see when you are most focused. A detailed breakdown of how much time you've spent on each task is also available. You can objectively review how you use your time, for example, "60% on development, 30% on studying, 10% on creating documents." Like a GitHub contribution graph, your year's activity history is displayed as a heatmap, allowing you to see how small daily efforts lead to significant achievements.

FlowTime works completely offline. Your work history and focus time data are all stored within your browser and are never sent to external servers. All basic features are available for free. You can use everything from the timer and task management to the statistics display without any limitations. It is accessible from the browser on any device—PC, smartphone, or tablet—with no special app installation required. Just visit the home page to start your focus timer right away.