Session Pomodoro Focus Timer vs Northstar

- Do you procrastinate and spend your time mindlessly? - have problem with focusing? - often get distracted while trying to focus? - maybe you are burned out because you worked too much and forget to take necessary break? - or, maybe have an ADHD? Session can help you with your focus problem. Trusted daily by tens of thousands of engineer in Silicon Valley, independent studios in Madrid, writers in Netherlands, and creative worker + freelancer all over the world. It helps you be more productive by guiding you to work in sessions, block distractions, track your time, and remind you to rest. GET INTO HABIT OF WORKING IN TIME BLOCK Inspired by Pomodoro technique, Session helps you block your time for focus. 25 minutes or 45 minutes is all you need to get closer to your goal KEEP YOUR FOCUS BY BLOCKING WEBSITES AND APPS THAT DISTRACT YOU (MAC ONLY) Session block distracting website and apps when you started a Session. It'll automatically restore your website when you are on rest / session has ended. BLOCK SLACK TEAM Session will automatically mute Slack team you choose when Session has started and open them up again when Session has stopped working. DON'T FORGET TO TAKE A REST Forcing yourself to work on long period of time is ineffective. Rest is as important as work / study. Why? Because rest is a crucial time where you: - store what you have learned in your head, and where - your brain solve difficult problem on the background. Notice that you usually get a new idea and solves problem when you're on walk and shower. Or anywhere where you're away from "work". AUTOMATE YOUR WORKFLOW (AUTOMATIC DO NOT DISTURB, PLAY MUSIC) Imagine having no distracting notifications while working on. It's possible by turning on Do Not Disturb. What if you can turn it on when you started your Session, and disable it after Session ends—all automatically? Or maybe change bulb color, play Apple music when Session has started? Different playlist on break? It's possible with Session. Automate it with AppleScript on MacOS and Apple Shortcut on iOS SEE YOUR SESSIONS ON APPLE CALENDAR WITH ONE WAY SYNC. See automatically create Sessions on Apple Calendar to review how your day has progressed. REVIEW YOUR SESSIONS Are you spending more time on a task than it's worth? Session keep you mindful by tracking your work and ask what you have learned after Session has ended. Session tracks what you have worked on, what have you learned, and for how long. Review your progress and journey that you have made. — Need support? Contact philip@stayinsession.com for assistance! — Learn about what Session can do here: https://www.stayinsession.com/learn — Join our Discord community channel here: https://discord.com/invite/5KASx2T4RU

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Northstar turns the goal you keep postponing into something you can act on today. Write down one goal that genuinely matters. Break it into phases, then into concrete steps. Log what you actually did each day. Northstar shows you, honestly, how much of your day went toward that goal — and how much drifted. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT Most goal apps stop at a checklist. Northstar connects three things that usually live apart: the goal you set, the plan you made, and what you really did today. When those three line up, progress stops being a feeling and becomes a number. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Set goals with a deadline and your own success metric • Break each goal into phases, and each phase into steps • Mark steps as one-off, daily or weekly • Log daily entries in seconds and link them to a goal • See your real alignment score, computed only from what you logged • Watch a 7-day and 30-day completion trend build itself • Keep a streak going — one entry a day is enough • Share a clean progress card as an image or text BUILT HONESTLY Every number in Northstar comes from data you entered. There are no invented statistics, no filler charts, no fake social feed. If you have not logged anything, Northstar says so instead of showing you a made-up score. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything stays on your device. No account. No sign-up. No servers. No tracking SDKs. No ads. You can erase every goal, step and entry from inside the app at any time, in one step. FREE Version 1.0 is completely free. No subscriptions, no in-app purchases, no ads. CHOOSE YOUR LOOK Five themes — Midnight, Paper, Forest, Ocean and Amber — and six app icons. SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE Available in 38 languages. Northstar does not promise to change your life. It just makes it obvious whether today moved you toward what you said mattered.