Driftless

About

🎯 Stop drifting. Start doing.
You open a new tab to "check one thing." Forty-five minutes later, you're three reels deep into someone's vacation, seven tabs into a Wikipedia rabbit hole, and your actual work hasn't moved an inch. Driftless is the Chrome extension that closes that gap — a gorgeous Pomodoro timer fused with a site blocker that actually holds the line.

No leaky workarounds. No "just one more scroll." Just focus that sticks.

⏱️ A Pomodoro Timer That Actually Holds
Set your intention, pick your duration, and go. Driftless runs distraction-free focus sessions right from your Chrome toolbar, with gentle visual progress and automatic breaks so you never have to think about the clock.

✅ Set your intention for every session ("Finish Q2 roadmap," "Write intro paragraph," anything you want)
✅ 25 / 45 / 60 / 90-minute presets or set any custom duration
✅ Automatic breaks between sessions so you don't burn out
✅ Daily streaks that keep you accountable
✅ Dark mode built in, because focus shouldn't hurt your eyes
🛡️ One Click, and Distraction Disappears
When a blocked site tries to load, Driftless replaces it with a full-page block screen — live countdown, motivational quote, and a single gentle button: "Take me back." No flash of the forbidden page. No sneaky redirect. No workaround.

Built on Chrome's native declarativeNetRequest API, blocks are enforced at the browser level — not by a flimsy content script that a page can dodge.

🚫 Full-page block screens with a live countdown of your focus session
💬 Motivational quotes from history's greatest focused minds
⏸️ "Add 5-min break" option when you genuinely need it
📊 Block counter so you can see how many distractions you dodged today
🔒 Focus Lock — The 10-Second Friction That Saves Hours
Willpower is weak at minute 38. That's why Driftless includes Focus Lock: to end a session early, you have to solve a quick math challenge. It's not cruel — it's just enough friction to make you ask, "Do I actually want to quit, or am I just bored?"

Nine times out of ten, you'll stick it out. Those are the sessions that change your week.

⚡ Kill the Infinite Scroll Before It Kills Your Day
Short-form video is engineered to hijack your attention. Driftless surgically removes it — without blocking the entire site. Need to DM a friend on Instagram? Still works. Need to watch a tutorial on YouTube? Still works. But the endless scroll? Gone.

One toggle hides:

📱 YouTube Shorts (both youtube.com and m.youtube.com)
📸 Instagram Reels (Reels tab + in-feed reels)
🎵 TikTok For You (FYP + Following feed)
👥 Facebook Reels (Reels tab hidden, site still usable)
👻 Snapchat Spotlight (Spotlight feed on snapchat.com)
Reclaim the hours these feeds quietly steal from you.

📅 Weekly Schedule — Enforce Your Plan Even When You Forget
Set automatic blocking hours for your deep-work windows — Mon–Fri 9am–12pm, weeknights after dinner, whenever your best work happens. Driftless turns on blocking for you, every time, without you lifting a finger.

Your future self will thank you.

📊 Beautiful Analytics — See Your Focus Habits
A simple, stunning dashboard that shows you exactly what's working:

🔥 Total focus time, day streak, longest streak, sessions done
📈 Weekly focus chart (minutes per day)
🗓️ 30-day heatmap — brighter squares = deeper focus
🧠 Focus insights (most productive day, average session length, most-blocked site, completion rate)
💯 Productivity score out of 100 based on streak, sessions, and completion
🔐 Your Data Stays Yours
Everything Driftless tracks — every session, every streak, every blocked site — is stored locally on your device. Nothing is uploaded. Nothing is sold. No account required. No analytics pixel watching you. Just a tool that works for you, not on you.

✨ Who Is Driftless For?
💼 Knowledge workers battling Slack, Twitter, and "quick" news checks
🎓 Students who open YouTube "for a study playlist" and emerge three hours later
💻 Developers & writers who need long, uninterrupted deep-work blocks
🧘 Anyone who's tired of ending the day wondering where it went
🚀 Get Started in 30 Seconds
Install Driftless
Add the sites that drain you to your blocklist
Pick a duration, set your intention, hit start
Do the work you actually came here to do
"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." — Bruce Lee

Stop drifting. Start doing. Install Driftless today.