Tranquil — Reclaim Your Attention Gently

Tracking since Apr 25, 2026.

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• May 2, 2026
  description

  Focus Guard is a mindful alternative to harsh site blockers.
  
  When you open a distracting site, instead of a "Blocked!" wall, you land on a calm pause page: a breathing orb to slow your nervous system, a quiet prompt to set your intention, and a single button to close the tab. No yelling. No shame. Just a moment to choose differently.
  
  WHAT IT DOES
  • Intercepts the sites on your blocklist (default: Instagram, Twitter/X, Reddit) and replaces them with a calming pause page
  • A 6-breath-per-minute resonant breathing animation, backed by research on parasympathetic activation (Lehrer & Gevirtz, 2014)
  • Type your intention — "what will I do instead?" — and it surfaces on the toolbar
  • Built-in focus block timer with a hard lock that ignores all snooze attempts
  • Daily streak + reclaimed-time tracking (based on Mark et al. 2008 — 23 minutes lost per interruption)
  • Quiet hours: pause blocking during specific times (e.g. lunch, evenings)
  
  WHY IT'S DIFFERENT
  Most blockers treat distraction as a willpower failure. Focus Guard treats it as a nervous-system pattern. The pause page gives your prefrontal cortex 30 seconds to come back online — which is usually all you needed.
  
  PRIVACY
  Everything stays on your device. No accounts. No analytics. No data leaves your browser. The full source is auditable in the extension folder.
  
  PERMISSIONS
  • tabs / webNavigation — to redirect blocked sites to the pause page
  • storage — to save your blocklist, streak, and settings locally
  • notifications — to tell you when a focus block is complete
  • alarms — to keep your active intention visible in the toolbar
  
  Built for anyone who wants to spend less time scrolling and more time doing.

  You opened a new tab to look something up.
  
  Forty minutes later, you're three reels deep on Instagram, you don't remember
  what you were searching for, and there's a small, familiar flavor of
  self-disappointment in the back of your throat.
  
  This isn't a willpower problem. The feed is engineered. You're outgunned.
  
  Tranquil evens the odds — quietly.
  
  
  How it works
  
  When you go to a site you've decided pulls you under, Tranquil doesn't slam
  a wall down. It opens a small, calm room first. You take one breath. You
  see the intention you set earlier — the thing you actually wanted to spend
  your day on. Then you choose.
  
  Most of the time, the choice makes itself. The urge was a reflex, not a
  decision, and once you notice it, the spell breaks.
  
  Sometimes you really do need to open Reddit. That's fine. Tranquil isn't
  trying to be your parent.
  
  
  What it gives you
  
  A pause screen that breathes with you, instead of yelling.
  
  An intention line that lives in your toolbar, so the thing you care about
  today is never more than a glance away.
  
  A streak count that grows quietly. No notifications, no celebrations, no
  guilt when you miss a day. It's a private mirror, not a leaderboard.
  
  Quiet hours, because you don't need a website blocker on a Saturday night.
  
  A snooze for the moments when you genuinely need the site. Use it like
  a fire extinguisher — meaningful because it's rare.
  
  A Focus Block mode for the deep-work afternoons where you want the door
  sealed and the key thrown away until five.
  
  
  What it doesn't do
  
  It doesn't ask you to sign up. There is no account.
  
  It doesn't send your data anywhere. There is no server. Your blocklist,
  your intentions, and your streak sit on your own machine and nowhere else.
  
  It doesn't have a premium tier. There's nothing to upsell.
  
  It doesn't track which sites you visit, how long you spend there, or what
  you do once you arrive. Tranquil only knows the things you've explicitly
  told it: the domains you want to slow down on.
  
  It doesn't try to be a meditation app, a habit tracker, a screen-time
  dashboard, or your therapist. It is one small, calm thing, done well.
  
  
  Setting it up
  
  Click the icon. Add the sites that pull you in, one per line. Subdomains
  are matched automatically, so "instagram.com" covers all of it.
  
  If you want, set quiet hours for your evenings. Then close the tab and
  forget Tranquil exists. It only shows up when you slip.
  
  
  A note on kindness
  
  Most productivity tools are built on shame. Streaks you'll feel bad for
  breaking. Lockouts that punish you. Stats that prove you're worse than
  you thought.
  
  Tranquil is built on the opposite bet — that the part of you that wanted
  to focus is still there, and mostly just needs a moment to be heard over
  the noise.
  
  One breath is usually enough.

• May 2, 2026
  short_description

  Pause distracting sites with a calm breathing prompt instead of a hard block. Set intentions, build streaks.

  A kinder kind of focus. Tranquil meets the urge to scroll with a breath, an intention, and a quiet way back to your work.

• May 2, 2026
  name

  Focus Guard

  Tranquil — Reclaim Your Attention Gently

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