Focus / Break Timer

Run a focus and break session

1. Use the current schedule or edit whole-minute durations and the completed-focus cadence. Apply and restart commits valid changes, clears the session count and leaves Focus ready without starting it.
2. Start the current phase. Pause preserves the exact remaining milliseconds; Resume excludes intentional paused time. Skip stops a phase without completion credit, while Reset current returns an unfinished phase to its full duration.
3. Each next phase waits for you by default. Turn on automatic starts to begin the next full phase after a natural completion. Skips still wait for your choice. If a background page is delayed, only the next phase starts when the completion is observed. Reset session keeps the current schedule and clears the count.

Understand phases, counts and schedule edits

Defaults are 25 minutes of focus, 5 for a short break and 15 for a long break, with a long break after every fourth completed focus interval. Durations are editable whole minutes; a cadence of one requests a long break after every natural focus completion.

Only a focus phase that reaches its deadline is credited, once. Breaks and skipped focuses do not add credit. The count describes timed intervals, not verified tasks or productive work; completing a cadence multiple chooses a long break.

The display rounds positive remaining milliseconds upward to whole seconds. A two-minute focus paused after 12.4 seconds has 107600ms left and shows 01:48. Resume uses that raw remainder, not 108000ms reconstructed from the display.

Draft schedule edits do not change the active timer. The current schedule stays visible; Apply and restart replaces it atomically and resets the session. Default schedule edits drafts only, while Reset session keeps the committed schedule and any unapplied drafts.

Completion, skip and manual-start examples

By default, when the fourth default focus completes, the screen holds 00:00 and four completed focuses, with a 15-minute long break waiting. Start long break begins its full duration at that click; waiting on the completed screen does not consume it.

By default, skipping an unfinished focus when three have completed keeps the count at three and offers a short break. If that focus is already due when Skip is processed, natural completion wins once and the count becomes four with a long break waiting.

A late return after many hours can finish only the phase that was running. It does not invent unstarted focuses or breaks; background audio may already have been requested. Returning to the same live page can reconcile its deadline; a new document starts a fresh session.

Timing, sound and session limits

The timer uses a deadline on your device clock rather than counting callback ticks. Clock changes can shorten or extend a phase, and backward changes can increase the displayed remainder within its segment budget. No calibrated accuracy or guaranteed sleep behavior is promised.

Hidden, frozen or discarded pages may not execute on time. The tool offers no background worker, notification, wake lock or locked-screen alarm. Background sound is best effort and may be delayed or missed. Each next phase waits for you by default. Turn on automatic starts to begin the next full phase after a natural completion. Skips still wait for your choice. If a background page is delayed, only the next phase starts when the completion is observed.

Sound is on and repeats by default. The timer schedules its cue when you switch tabs, but background throttling, device sleep, clock changes or audio policy may delay, interrupt or prevent it. Closing the tab ends the session. Stop sound ends the cue without changing the timer.

Durations are 1–180 whole minutes and cadence 1–12 completed focuses. At 9999 completions the session requires a reset before another phase starts. Schedule application and session reset cancel first; pause, skip and current reset reconcile an already-due running phase first.

One in-page session without saved history

The tool adds no upload, microphone access, saved session history, settings-bearing link or telemetry containing your schedule and session state. Existing site services and extensions are outside a universal privacy promise. Reload or a new document starts defaults.