Focus Assistant

About

Focus Assistant is a professional-grade productivity extension engineered to help you eliminate distractions, enforce deep work habits, and take full control of your browsing experience — all running natively and privately inside your browser.

Whether you're a developer, student, writer, or remote worker, Focus Assistant acts as your personal focus enforcer, automatically blocking time-wasting websites during your scheduled work hours and organizing your open tabs into a clean, structured workspace.

KEY FEATURES:

🔒 PRIVACY FIRST — 100% LOCAL & OFFLINE
Focus Assistant operates entirely on your device. No accounts. No servers. No telemetry. No data is ever transmitted externally. All settings, schedules, categories, and statistics are stored locally using the browser's built-in storage API.

🛡️ FOCUS MODE — SCHEDULED DOMAIN BLOCKING
Set a custom start and end time for your focus sessions. During those hours, any website assigned to a blocked category becomes completely inaccessible — redirecting you to a calming, full-screen blocked page instead. The schedule intelligently handles midnight crossover (e.g., 10 PM to 2 AM) for late-night sessions.

📁 SMART TAB AUTO-GROUPING
Every tab you open is automatically analyzed and grouped by category in real time. Open GitHub? It snaps straight into your "Work/Development" group. Head over to Reddit? It lands in "Social Media" — already collapsed so it stays out of your way with zero manual effort.

🗂️ FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE CATEGORIES
Ships with four intelligent default categories out of the box (Social Media, Video & Entertainment, Work / Development, and News). Every category is fully editable. Rename them, delete them, add entirely new ones, and assign as many domains as you need.

🖱️ RIGHT-CLICK QUICK-ADD
Stumbled onto a new time-sink? Simply right-click anywhere on the page and use the "Add site to Focus Category" context menu to instantly inject the current domain into any of your categories.

🧘 FORGIVING MODE — MINDFUL BYPASSES
Need urgent, temporary access to a blocked site? Forgiving Mode triggers a 5-second guided breathing exercise to make you pause before proceeding. After completing it, you get 1 minute of access. To prevent exploitation, each domain is limited to one bypass per 5-hour period.

📊 DISTRACTION SHIELD COUNTER
A live counter tracks exactly how many times Focus Assistant has blocked a site during your current day, giving you a daily snapshot of your productivity.

🔔 IN-BROWSER ALERT BANNERS
Elegant bottom-right sliding notification banners fire directly inside your browser tab when your focus session begins, when it's 5 minutes from ending, or when a site is quick-added.

💬 DYNAMIC MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES
Every time a blocked page loads, it displays a freshly randomized motivational quote to keep your mindset sharp and positive.

⚙️ TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
• Built on Manifest V3 — the modern, secure Chrome extension standard.
• Uses chrome.alarms for efficient, battery-friendly session scheduling.
• Uses chrome.tabGroups for native, real-time tab organization.
• Precise exact-match domain logic prevents false positives.

🌐 BROWSER COMPATIBILITY
Fully compatible with Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Brave.

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