FindFocus Releases a New Productivity Tool and Website Blocker that will Help People Avoid Online Distractions

The Innovative New App will Allow People to Finally Break their Bad Online Habits, Without Limiting their Flexibility

ALTENBEKEN, GERMANY / ACCESSWIRE / March 20, 2017 / Martin Boeddeker, founder of the website and new productivity tool FindFocus, is pleased to announce the release of the first app and website blocker for Mac that will help people avoid a number of online distractions.

To learn more about the website and app blocker and its revolutionary features that will allow writers, students, authors and others who spend a great deal of time at their computers to boost their productivity, please check out http://findfocus.net at any time.

As Boeddeker knows quite well, a variety of online temptations like Facebook, YouTube and a number of fun and interesting apps can prevent well-intentioned people from getting their work done.

It is not uncommon for a journalist or student to tell themselves “I’ll just check my email for a minute or two” or “I will reply to one comment on Facebook and then start my writing.” While these people have every intention of getting to their work, before they know it, they have spent hours on social media, email and other websites and their projects are still unfinished.

This knowledge inspired Boeddeker to create the FindFocus app, which will allow users to do a number of things that will boost their productivity, including the ability to unlock a website like Facebook, or their local email client only after a delay of 5 minutes.

As Boeddeker noted, “delay discounting” is a mind trick suggested by behavioural scientists who have found that the longer a person has to wait for a reward – for example, checking the latest posts on Facebook – the less he or she will still want to do it.

“The good news is, even small delays can dramatically lower the perceived value of any temptation,” he said, adding that by delaying the ability to visit Facebook and other popular websites by a mere five minutes, people may lose their immediate desire to check out the sites and stay on task.

FindFocus also features a Pomodoro timer that will allow people to work at their computers for their most productive amounts of time before taking a break. The Pomodoro app lets people select options like 50 minutes of working followed by a 10 minute break, and will remind them to take the needed break.

In addition to the delay discounter and the ability to block websites on Mac, FindFocus also offers other “Focus Mode Protection” features, including a Focus Text option that requires people to enter a motivational quote or text before leaving the Focus Mode; or the Focus Text Hard-Core Mode which makes the person enter the motivational text without making a mistake.

Other features that will encourage people to stay on task include the Random Character Protection, Random Character Protection Hard-Core Mode and Fort Knox Mode, which Boeddeker said is for hard-core website and app addicts who find it especially hard to stay on task.

The FindFocus app currently offers a free version that allows people to test most of its features. Boeddeker is currently developing a version of the app for Windows that he hopes to release in April.

About FindFocus:

FindFocus is a website and distraction blocker for Mac created by Martin Boeddeker. The company aims to help people working online like authors, journalists, students or developers to stay away from distracting websites like YouTube, Facebook or Reddit and/or applications like local email clients and games with automated schedules and breaks that will “force them” to implement the productive habits they already know they should be doing but always fail to do on a regular basis. For more information, please visit http://findfocus.net.

Contact:

Martin Boeddeker

martin@findfocus.net
+4917640191274

SOURCE: FindFocus

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