Everything the work needs, inside the session.
Flashcards, sets and rests, meals and sleep, a metronome. Each runs under the session’s clock, and its time counts toward the thing it’s for.
Focus Desktop
A small ring above every window.
- While a session runs, it sits at the top right, on every workspace.
- At the bell it asks how it’s going, and waits for you.
- Breaks count down there too, and end when you say.
Driff’s pop-up timer, a ring at the top right: In flow, Classes, 4:12 to the bell. At the bell a card under it asks “25 minutes. How’s it going?” with 5m break, Another round and Keep going. On a break the ring counts down from 5:00, then the card says “Break’s over whenever you are.” with Back to it.
Pause, a break or I’m done, right from the ring. Noticing when you drift, the red that fills it, and a tutor when you’re stuck are on the AI page.
Anki
Flashcards, spaced for you.
- Your cards come up inside a session, under the clock.
- Turn one over, then say how well you knew it.
- It shows what you’ve learned, not just what’s due.
A Spanish flashcard, “la sobremesa”, in a session that counts toward Spanish. Turned over it reads “time spent talking at the table after a meal”, with Again in 10 minutes, Hard in 11 days, Good in 16 days and Easy in 27 days. After Good, the next card, “madrugar”. Then the deck, done for today: 311 of 499 cards learned, 127 known well.
Already use Anki? Bring your decks along, with their images, sounds and progress. Choose a pace in plain words: Gentle, Steady or Intensive.
Fitness
Your workout, set by set.
- Last time’s numbers sit beside every set.
- Tick a set and the rest counts down. It rings even with the phone locked.
- Every lift keeps its records, and the weight steps up when you’re ready.
Push day: bench press, 3 sets of 8 at 67.5 kg, 2.5 kg more than last time, with last time’s 65 × 8 beside each set. The first set is ticked and marked a record, and the two-minute rest counts down. Then the bench press’s heaviest set each time, climbing from 50 kg in August to 67.5 kg today.
Start from a ready plan: full body, push/pull/legs, upper/lower, or bodyweight at home. Or just log as you go, from 876 exercises that work offline.
Health
Sleep, water, mood and meals, in a few taps.
- Log a meal the way you’d say it.
- It comes back as foods you can check before you add them.
- US packaged foods are built in too, label by label. No connection needed.
- Then see how the week went. No scores, no red days.
“2 eggs, toast with butter and a coffee”, typed the way you’d say it, comes back as four foods: two cooked eggs, 176 kcal; a slice of white bread, toasted, 73; a pat of butter, 52; a cup of brewed coffee, 2. Add 4 to breakfast, 303 kcal. Searching “dave’s killer” finds Dave’s Killer Bread’s packaged breads with their label servings, from 353,863 packaged foods on the device. Last week’s sleep: 8 hours 13 minutes a night against an 8 hour goal.
A food diary when you want one: thousands of everyday foods, barcodes and recipes, and targets only if you ask for them.
Next: log a meal from a photo of it. Coming soon How it works
Practice
Bring a piece up to tempo.
- A metronome inside the session, set to the piece.
- When it’s clean, log the tempo.
- And watch it climb, week by week.
Clair de lune at 84 beats a minute, Andante, in 3/4, the beat lighting one dot at a time. 84 bpm is logged. Then the piece’s tempo over its sessions, from 60 bpm in August to 84 now, toward a goal of 100.
For piano or any instrument. Pieces and exercises, tap tempo, and a quiet nudge to go faster once a tempo has been clean on two days.
Watches
Sessions on your wrist.
- Pick an area on the watch and start it there.
- Pause, the bell and breaks on the wrist, in step with the phone. Timed away from it, a session arrives with its own times.
- On Android, Health Connect brings in sleep, weight, workouts and steps from your watch’s own app.
A round watch running Driff: the areas to pick from, Piano first. Then a Piano session in the quota ring, with the bell counting down, pause and a break. Then what Health Connect brings in from a watch’s own app: the night, 11:10 pm to 6:55 am from Garmin Connect, weight, workouts and steps.
Wear OS, with an app, a tile and a complication. Garmin, on 115 watches: Instinct, fēnix, Forerunner, Venu, vívoactive and more. Apple Watch comes later, with the iPhone app.
Part of your day, not another app.
Their time counts toward your areas, and it all lands on the day’s entry. On a computer, pin them to the sidebar.
Off until you turn them on.
Settings, then Plugins. Turn on the ones you want; the rest stay out of the way. All of them come with Driff.