u/islamaskar

Dev disclosure first, since that's the rule here and it's fair: this is my app, I built it, and I'm the one posting it.

I have a full-time job. Fokus got built in the evenings and on weekends, after everyone else went to sleep.

Three years ago my work lived in Jira, Slack, Gmail, Notion and two separate to-do apps. Every morning I opened all of them just to work out what my day was, and by the time I felt organized the first hour was gone.

The list itself was the worst part. Not because it was wrong — because it was honest in a way I couldn't use. 40 items, 6 usable hours, and no idea which of them would actually happen. Every evening I closed the laptop with more open than when I started. After a while that does something to you. You stop trusting your own plan. You feel behind on a day you haven't finished yet.

Every app I tried was good at storing tasks. None of them would tell me what today could actually hold.

So I built that. Fokus pulls your tasks from the tools you already use and schedules them into your real day, around your meetings and your deadlines. When something moves — and something always moves — it replans, instead of leaving you with a list that quietly went stale at 10am. Drop in a messy one-line capture and it fills in the priority and time estimate. Hand it a big objective and it breaks it into pieces small enough to actually fit somewhere.

The honest parts, because I'd want them:

• Public beta. Free right now, no credit card. It'll be €15/mo after — I'd rather you know that today than after you've moved your system into it.
• Desktop (Mac, Windows, Linux), web, Chrome extension. No iOS or Android yet. In progress. For some people that might be a dealbreaker and I get it.

The reason I'm actually posting: it works for me. That's genuinely the only thing I know for sure. I built it for one very specific broken workflow — mine — and after three years I can't tell anymore whether I solved a real problem or just my own.

So I want to hear from people who aren't me. Does this sound like your day? The list is full, the calendar is full, and the two never meet?

https://getfokus.com

I'll be in the comments. Tell me where it's wrong — that's more useful to me than an upvote.

I have a full-time job. I built this in the evenings and on weekends, after everyone else went to sleep.

Three years ago my work lived in Jira, Slack, Gmail, Notion and two different to-do apps. Every morning I opened all of them just to figure out what my day was. By the time I felt "organized", the first hour was already gone.

The to-do list was the worst part. Not because it was wrong, but because it was honest in a way I couldn't use. 40 items in a list, 6 usable hours in the day, and no idea which of them was actually going to happen. Every evening I closed the laptop with more open tasks than I started with. After a while that does something to you. You stop trusting your own plan. You start feeling behind on a day you haven't even finished yet.

I tried a lot of apps. They were all good at storing my tasks. None of them would tell me what today actually looks like.

That's the thing I wanted. Not another place to write things down. Something that looks at my calendar, looks at my tasks, and builds an honest plan for the hours I really have.

So I started building it. I thought it would take three months.

That's what Fokus is now. It pulls your tasks from the tools you already use, then schedules them into your real day around your meetings and deadlines. When something moves, and something always moves, it replans instead of leaving you with a list that quietly went out of date at 10am. You can drop a messy one-line capture in and it fills in the priority and time estimate for you, or give it a big objective and it breaks it into tasks that actually fit somewhere.

Honest heads-up: it's in public beta. It's free right now, no credit card. Desktop (Mac, Windows, Linux), web and a Chrome extension are live. iOS and Android are still coming, which I know is a dealbreaker for some of you, and that's fair.

The real reason I'm posting: it works for me. That's the only thing I know for sure. But I built it for my own broken workflow, and after three years it's genuinely hard to tell whether I solved a real problem or just mine.

So I want to ask people who aren't me: does this sound familiar? The list is full, the day is full, and the two never meet?

If you want to poke at it: https://getfokus.com

I'll be in the comments. Happy to take hard feedback, and happy to talk about the build too.