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Focus TimerA taskbar widget for Windows 10 and 11Free
Focus Timer uses the one shape a taskbar is actually good at. Instead of a lone number counting down, the strip lays out the whole cycle — four blocks of focus, the short breaks between them, and the long break at the end — as a single rule drawn to scale. The part you've spent is dim, the part ahead is bright, and a cursor sits at exactly where you are. So a glance tells you not just how long is left in this block, but how much of the hour is still in front of you. Breaks aren't drawn as another colour; they're the gaps. Rest is depicted as the absence of work, and the only warm colour in the widget appears while you're actually in one. Click the strip for the controls: start, pause, skip a block, or reset the cycle.
Where it runs
What it does
- The whole cycle drawn to scale, not just the current block's number
- Breaks are the gaps in the rule — the one warm colour appears only while you're resting
- Start, pause, skip and reset from the flyout, one click from the strip
- Survives a restart: the timer is anchored to a real clock time, not a counter
- Optional notification when a block ends, so you can look away
- Borrows the taskbar's own colour and follows your light or dark theme
- Drops to phase and time on very short taskbars, and holds still when Reduce motion is on
What you can change
- Focus block
- Short break
- Notify on change
Put it on your desktop
Free download, free to keep. No account.