Focus timer with music and a to-do list Pure Focus

About Pure Focus

Pure Focus is a focus timer Pure Water Automations built for its own team's deep work. You choose one thing, pick a length and a music track, and a floating droplet counts down while you work. A Mac menu bar version shows the countdown over every app and can mark the task done in our to-do Google Sheet when the session ends.

Why we built Pure Focus

Our team's work lives in Notion and in a to-do Google Sheet, and it is easy to start a work block without deciding what the block is for. We wanted a timer that asks for one clear task first, plays music without leaving the page, and writes the result back to the place the task came from.

How Pure Focus works

The web version is an installable app that works offline. You write one clear thing or pick an open task from Notion, choose 15 to 90 minutes and pick a music track. A droplet in the corner shows the time left. During a session you can pause, mark yourself distracted, recenter or end it. Past ten minutes in, the droplet shows deep focus. When the session ends, you write a short reflection, and a history lists recent sessions.

The Mac version lives in the menu bar, so the countdown sits above every app. You pick a task from the to-do Google Sheet, choose minutes and music, and start. Mark done sets that task's status to Done on its own tab, but only after it re-reads the row and confirms the task still matches. The next task then comes up, and Skip moves on without marking anything.

Pure Focus is built for our own use and runs on our development server behind a sign-in, so it has no public address.