Forced Focus – AI Deep Work Guardian

Goal-based focus sessions that suspend distracting tabs and block distraction sites until you end the session.

Forced Focus is a goal-based focus timer and distraction blocker for anyone who needs to get deep work done without losing the fight to their own browser tabs. Start a session by naming your goal — "write the report," "study for the exam," "ship the feature" — and pick a duration. Forced Focus suspends and groups the tabs that aren't related to that goal, then shows a full-screen block, with no dismiss button, on any site you've marked as a distraction (Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, and more, fully editable) for as long as the session runs. It's a real block, not a gentle nudge — the kind of hard boundary a Pomodoro app or a simple website blocker doesn't enforce. What you get in every session: • A goal-based work timer with a small floating pill so you can see time remaining without leaving the page • Automatic tab suspension and grouping to cut down on tab-switching temptation • A hard block on distracting websites, with per-site and per-goal overrides you control • A local session recap — minutes focused, time on distractions, useful tabs visited — with no account required • Weekly stats and a day streak, built entirely from your own session history Forced Focus is privacy-first by design: your session data, site rules, and archives stay in your browser's local storage and are never uploaded anywhere. There's no sign-up, no tracking, and no ads. For people who want more, a few optional extras are available and off by default: an AI-paraphrased recap using your own Anthropic API key (only aggregate stats are sent — never page content or URLs), and simple integrations with Todoist and Notion using your own personal tokens. If you're looking for a focus app, distraction blocker, or productivity timer that actually stops you from checking your phone's browser tabs instead of just reminding you to, give Forced Focus a try.