Exocus vs WhichWrench

Exocus is a pixel-art, gamified focus timer app. Here, your focus is no longer boring, repetitive, or meaningless because every moment of your focus will transform your very own planet. Do you struggle with staying motivated when you commit to doing something valuable in the long run, like learning new words, practicing an instrument, working out, or mastering a new language? Initially, you're full of enthusiasm, but soon, your passion wanes. Memorizing words becomes a chore, the instrument is neglected, workouts turn into a burden, and progress in the new language stalls... You start doubting yourself: “Maybe I just don’t have what it takes to stick with long-term commitments.” That’s not true! Let us explain the real reasons. ● Lack of Immediate Rewards: You understand the long-term value of these tasks, but how much does this half-hour of focus matter right now? ● Repetition Leads to Boredom: When the initial novelty wears off, the repetitive nature of the task can make you feel bored and tired. ● Overly Negative Focus: Focusing on what you haven't accomplished rather than acknowledging what you have done can lead to negative self-evaluation and loss of motivation. Let Exocus Help You! ====== Exocus Solutions ====== Exocus is a gamified focus timer that visualizes your concentration as a planet's evolution, helping you achieve long-term, pain-free focus. ● Emotional Design and Sense of Meaning After each focus session, you’ll see the story of what happened to your planet during that time. Even five minutes of focus equals 38.53 million years of evolution for your planet, so your focus is crucial. Want to raise the stakes? You can enable “Hardcore Mode,” where failing to focus might cause your planet to be destroyed! ● Stage-Based Incentives Short-term Incentives: After each focus session, the planet’s landscape changes and tells you its story. Medium-term Incentives: After several hours of focus, the planet undergoes more significant transformations, like forming magma, oceans, and land. Long-term Incentives: After around ten hours of focus, the planet completes its evolution. You can then add it to your star system, with each project corresponding to a star system, showcasing your long-term accumulation in that project. ● Continuous Freshness We offer hundreds of unique planet designs, satisfying your curiosity and desire to collect with constant surprises. See a planet's full appearance only after evolving it through focused efforts. Earn Stardust coins by focusing to unlock new planet seeds, motivating continuous concentration. ====== What Makes Exocus Special? ====== ● Meticulously Crafted Design Exocus uses a unique pixel art style, maintaining simplicity while incorporating delightful little Easter eggs for you to discover. We believe the beauty of Exocus can bring joy, which will ultimately translate into more focused time. ● Fun Game Elements Exocus embraces gamified design in a bold yet restrained and professional manner. We hope the game elements help you enjoy focusing, and we also care deeply about your ability to truly focus. We’ve eliminated anything that could distract you because we genuinely want to focus on achieving long-term goals with you. ● Flexible Focus Modes Exocus supports countdown timers, stopwatch mode, and the Pomodoro technique. In the Pomodoro technique, you can flexibly set focus and break durations and specify longer breaks after several focus cycles. ● Convenient Project Management Each project corresponds to a planet. You can track different categories of focus time with projects and quickly switch between projects on the home screen by swiping left or right. ● Personalized Statistics Based on your focus data, we provide personalized charts to help you understand your focus patterns and stay motivated to maintain consistent focus. Terms of Use: https://byland.work/exocus/terms-en.html Support: exocus@byland.work

WhichWrench is the nexus that supplies your critical information to you at a time and location convenient to you. This tool enables your mastery in sequencing your time with your information. WhichWrench supports you with the accomplishment of your personal task pipeline. The WhichWrench paradigm does not impede you with your Note creation. You are empowered to choose the simplest and most effective means to populate WhichWrench with your needed data. This tool combines four independent methods that preserve and present you with convenient retrieval of your information • Create a note • Create a note and add picture(s) to the Photos Album (You will need to create your WhichWrench Album in the Apple Photos) • Simply add a picture to the WhichWrench Album • Utilize WhichWrench for collecting your needed items or quick notes. Consistently integrating the WhichWrench note creations and simple interface that Lists the varied notes into your different activities will assist you with reviewing your myriad tasks that are easily forgotten. You will now know to check WhichWrench for tasks and info that you created in the past for future use. It is important to enter some information into one of the three fields in the DESCRIPTION group. Those fields will display in the List view to allow you to choose the desired note. The entries are updated into the database when you insert or delete characters. Although WhichWrench was originally created for maintenance it is fully usable for other tasks. The hints in the note edit View are only hints. There is no requirement on what information is entered or how much or how little information is entered into a note. The notes can consist of any combination text and emoji’s: • input by keyboard, • copy and paste, • Voice Transcription. The contents in the Photos Album are whatever is valid in Photos. Screenshots and pictures. Usage Examples: Support deferred tasks: (Brief entry in Description field. Possibly a picture) • Too small to make a dedicated trip to the store but great to pick up on a future trip. • Screws: Create a note with Purpose and screws in the top field. Description of size, type, number needed. Possibly a picture if complex • Can of spray for metal protection: Probably just a picture of the can in the Album Important for a brief time: (Type a brief entry into a field in the Description Section) • the keycode for a bathroom • the keycode to open the gate from the beach to the resort Longer lead items that struggle to be remembered as time goes by: • The part number of the filters and fluids for the tractor oil change. The web address of an online vendor for those supplies. • A picture from the owner’s manual to for specific procedures or descriptive tables • Chain saw replacement chain. (Create a note with chainsaw model in name and a picture of the replacement chain box) WhichWrench was created to access critical information which is only needed when actually working on that task. Projects that were not critical to the daily work schedule tended to be forgotten until the pertinent notes are not readily available. Productivity is then frustratingly impacted. The goal of WhichWrench is to decrease the frustration level and increase the success of the user. Comments and suggestions are always welcome at: apps@snoreslab.com Thank You!