Focus Timer

Every task card and task view has a little play button. Press it and Fokus starts tracking — a floating timer bar keeps the clock visible while you work, and the minutes land on the task as actual time when you stop.

Starting a timer

• From a card — hover any task in Kanban or Buckets and hit the Start Timer play button.
• From the task view — the play button next to the title does the same.

The timer bar docks into the header, showing the task, elapsed time against your estimate, and (on hover) its controls — pause, Stop & Save, and time logging.

The bar fills as the session runs, and the fill is a status at a glance: green while you're inside your estimate, orange once you pass it, and red past 110%. A task with no estimate simply doesn't fill. The desktop app's floating bar shows the same fill:

Two modes

• Pomodoro (default) — classic focused sprints with breaks between them. The bar walks you through work and break phases.
• Continuous — one running clock until you stop it. Better for deep sessions where a 25-minute bell would just hurt.

Switch modes from the timer bar's menu.

When a Pomodoro session ends

A work session is 25 minutes and a break is 5 by default. When the clock reaches the end of a session it stops right there and asks Time for a break!:

• Start Break — the break clock starts. Back to Work ends it and puts you back on the task.
• Skip — keep working. The next break is a full session away.

Sessions are counted from where you started working, not from zero. Start a timer on a task that already has 40 minutes logged and the first break is due at 50:00 — not the moment you press play.

Stopping

Hit the red Stop & Save. The timer pauses, and Fokus asks what the session meant:

• Mark as Done — log the time and complete the task. The satisfying one.
• Just Log Time — add the minutes to the task's actual time and leave it open.
• Cancel — keep the timer running after all.

Nothing is logged until you pick one of the first two, so a stray click on stop costs you nothing.

One timer, every device

The timer belongs to your account, not to a screen. Start it on your laptop and your phone shows the same clock; pause it on the phone and the laptop pauses too.

The two questions follow the same rule. Time for a break! and What would you like to do? can be answered on any device — and once one is answered, or the timer is resumed, stopped or moved to another task anywhere, the prompt disappears everywhere else. You never end up answering a question that's already been settled.

On mobile

Open a task and tap Start timer. A mini-player keeps the clock in view while you move around the app; tap it for the full timer screen, where you switch between Pomodoro and Continuous, pause, and stop. Stop asks the same question as on the web — Mark as done, Just log time, or Cancel — and the end of a Pomodoro session offers the same Start break and Skip.

• A break reminder that doesn't need the app. With notifications allowed, Time for a break! arrives the moment the session ends, even if Fokus is closed or the phone is locked. Tap it and the timer opens.
• Starting another task's timer logs the running one first. The running session is ended and its time written to its task, and only then does the new timer start — no minutes lost in the switch. If the first half can't be confirmed (you're offline, say), nothing is switched and a notice tells you: Couldn't switch timers — the running one is unchanged.
• The task being timed says Open timer. Its button takes you to the timer instead of starting the session over.

Why bother tracking?

Two reasons, both automatic:

1. Your day summary shows tracked time next to planned time, so you can see where the hours really went.
2. The End-of-Day Review compares actuals to estimates — after a couple of weeks your estimates stop being fiction, which makes auto-scheduling dramatically more realistic.