Focus Key

A local-first focus workspace with YouTube and Instagram distraction controls, study tools, site blocking, and private insights.

Focus Key turns every new tab into a calm, local-first workspace for intentional browsing and focused study. Use Focus Key to: - search with the default provider configured in Chrome; - replace distracting YouTube entry points with a focused video workspace; - choose recommendations from priority-channel metadata, declutter watch pages, save videos, and apply configurable watch-time cooldowns; - run Pomodoro sessions, read local PDFs, and group saved playlists into folders with watched progress; - plan with a calendar, kanban board, and customizable study subjects; - enable user-configured site blocking and an Instagram direct-message focus mode; and - optionally view domain-only general browsing insights stored locally on the device. After onboarding acceptance, Focus Key's YouTube features can read supported channel/watch-page metadata and request YouTube channel or search-result pages. It uses video IDs, titles, channel names, thumbnail URLs, durations, view counts, publication text, playback state, and watch-time thresholds for the recommendation, save, decluttering, and cooldown features described above. This state is stored locally or, for settings, through Chrome Sync; it is not sent to a Focus Key developer server. General browsing insights are separate, off by default, and request optional tab and idle permissions only when enabled. They store the active domain, date, and bounded activity duration—never full URLs, page content, search terms, or form entries—and can be deleted at any time. Focus Key has no developer analytics, advertising SDK, remote code, or developer-controlled data server.