Airlock - Capture & prioritise

An airlock between impulse and action. Capture the idea instead of diving into it. Global shortcut Ctrl+Shift+E.

You're working. An idea arrives. You dive straight in. Two hours later you realise you dropped something more urgent. Airlock puts a buffer zone between the impulse and the action. It is designed first for people with ADHD: an idea arrives, it feels urgent, and by the time you surface from it, what you were doing is gone. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW IT WORKS Ctrl+Shift+E from any tab. Type the impulse. Enter. • If you have no current focus, the impulse becomes • If you already have a focus, Airlock asks the only question that matters: does this go first? Three possible answers: → switch: the new impulse becomes the focus, the ol → queue: it waits its turn, your current focus is preserved → drop: discarded, and that's perfectly fine Keys 1, 2 and 3 answer without touching the mouse. e answering, the impulse is kept and a "?" on theicon waits for you. When you finish a focus, one click on ✓ archives it and the first queued item automatically takes its place. Misclicked? Every removal can be undone for a few seconds. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ STUCK ON "WHERE DO I START?" Break your focus into small, concrete steps, the fiminutes. The next step then shows up under yourfocus, in the popup, on the icon tooltip and in the reminder card. No AI required; an optional local Claude Code bridge can draft the steps for you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY THIS IS DIFFERENT Friction is what kills productivity tools. If captu an app, picking a project and filling in threefields, you won't do it. You'll dive into the impulse instead. Airlock lives in Chrome, opens from the keyboard, and asks for one thing only: the text of the impulse. No project to pick, no due date, no priority to assign, no account to create. This is not a task manager. It's an airlock. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ YOUR DATA STAYS PUT • 100% local storage via chrome.storage.local • No server, no account, no sync • No telemetry, no analytics, no tracking, not even • Minimal permissions at install; access to other sites is only asked for if you turn on the reminder everywhere • One exception, and only if you turn it on yourselude sends the text of a single impulse to ClaudeCode, installed on your machine under your own account. Never the queue, never the history. An Options page lets you export your data as JSON at any time, and import it back. Backup stays under your control. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PASSIVE REMINDER: ON CLAUDE.AI, OR EVERYWHERE Out of sight, out of mind. A discreet, draggable card reminds you of your current focus and its next step. On claude.ai it shows by default when you open a new conversation, exactly thappens. Turn on "reminder on every site" in theOptions page and it follows you to email, social media, video sites: wherever attention actually escapes. Dismissible in one click. No page content is ever read. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT AIRLOCK DOES NOT DO • No notifications interrupting you • No gamification, no streaks, no score • No time tracking • No productivity reports • No AI reshuffling your priorities for you The decisions stay yours. Airlock only forces you to make one. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SHORTCUT Ctrl+Shift+E by default, changeable at chrome://extensions/shortcuts if the shortcut is already taken. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Note: the extension interface is currently in French. Open source, MIT licence: https://github.com/kiyomasanaki/airlock ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ About the install warning If Chrome's Enhanced Safe Browsing is turned on, you may see "This extension is not trusted by Enhanced Safe Browsing". This is about the developer account being new, not about Airlock itself, which has been reviewed and approved by the Chrome Web Store. The message will go away on its own within a few months. You can safely click "Continue to install".