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Light mode for the UI
For those of us in brightly lit rooms but with low brightness monitors, a light mode would make the interface far easier to read and interact with.
AI-Powered Insights:
Offer personalized tips based on user focus data, like optimizing session times or suggesting ideal break patterns.
App Blocking Feature:
• Allow users to block distracting apps for a set duration during focus sessions. • Provide flexibility to choose apps to block (e.g., social media, gaming). • Include an emergency override option for critical usage needs.
Auto-Detect Breaks from Calendar:
• Sync with calendar apps (Google, Outlook, etc.) to automatically detect scheduled breaks, meetings, or downtime. • Adjust focus session recommendations based on calendar activity (e.g., suggest shorter focus blocks on busy days).
Expanded Statistics and Graphs:
Add detailed stats such as: • Average focus time per day. • Median session length (to avoid skewed data). • Week-over-week trends for focus time. • Break-to-focus ratio for better time management insights. • Visualize data with user-friendly graphs (bar, line, pie charts) to track patterns over time.
Daily Email Summaries
Send users an email with a concise daily summary, including stats like: • Total focus time • Number of focus sessions • Average session length • Break patterns detected • Include visual graphs/charts to make the email engaging.
A Way to Track Offline Productivity
For instances of productivity that happen away from the PC, there should be a toggle setting to name the offline time-usage (say: I toggle offline productivity called “flashcards”) that’s tracked by Hootz This setting should ignore (or have an option) to ignore the idle timer I use an app called Focused Work to offline-productivity tracking. It logs the pomodoro timers and lets you document how productive you were as a log.