How it works
A clean handoff between tasks.
Changing windows is easy. Moving attention is not. Conberate gives each task a boundary, catches thoughts that arrive mid-block, and closes the loop before the next task begins.
Lay the blocks.
Pull work from the backlog into the hours you actually have. Mark it deep or shallow to set the right timing and transition rules; attach a Focus Profile to choose which apps and websites stay out.
Keep one task in the foreground.
Start a block and the main window steps aside. The session lives in the menu bar while Focus Profiles close selected apps and redirect selected sites. If another thought arrives, ⌥Space catches one line over the current app, then disappears.
Finish before you switch.
Every block ends with a decision: finished or unfinished. Leave one ready-to-resume line about where the work stopped, then take a transition before the next deep block. The task has a reliable way back, so it no longer needs to stay active in your head.
Close the working day.
At shutdown, unfinished work returns to the backlog and every thought captured with ⌥Space is resolved. The day becomes read-only, leaving a truthful record instead of a timeline you can quietly rewrite later.
The block, up close
Every hour is a block with edges.
Work that needs uninterrupted concentration. Deep blocks start at 45 minutes and receive stronger transition and recovery rules.
Email, admin, coordination, and catch-up. Shallow blocks start at 30 minutes and keep routine work from leaking into deep ones.
An optional screen lock holds a real pause between blocks. It cannot be shortened in the moment, because recovery only works when it is more than another adjustable timer.
A third choice for passing thoughts.
Keeping a thought in mind creates another open loop; chasing it creates a context switch. Press ⌥Space instead, write one line over the app already in front of you, and keep working. The thought waits for shutdown, where it must be resolved.
Days close. So do weeks.
Set a few goals and attach work to them. When the last working day closes, the week closes with it and becomes read-only.
If you forget to close a day, Conberate offers one catch-up the next morning. Skip it and any scheduled work that never entered a focus session returns to the backlog automatically.
A tool, not a coach
Evidence, without a score to obey.
Conberate shows what happened and how it reached that conclusion. The decision remains yours.
Planning warnings point out overload or work outside your chosen hours. Nothing is moved for you and Conberate never reschedules the day.
Focus capacity is learned from the deep hours you actually sustain and shown with uncertainty, never presented as a universal target.
Insights remain hidden until there is enough history to separate a useful pattern from noise. Every insight states how much data supports it.
Open the day. Close the day.
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