Raycast Focus helps you stay in flow and get more done by blocking out distractions on your Mac. Define your goal, set a duration to focus and block out distracting apps and websites.

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The Raycast Focus experience comes with two commands:

1. Start Focus Session: This command opens a form to configure your focus session.
2. Toggle Focus Session: This command allows you to toggle between starting or completing a focus session. Starting will use the previously used setup.

While you're in a session, there are 3 additional commands:

1. Edit Focus Session: This command allows you to edit your current focus session.
2. Complete Focus Session: This command allows you to complete your current focus session.
3. Pause Focus Session: This command allows you to pause your current focus session.

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Pro Tip: We recommend assigning a hotkey to the Toggle Focus Session command for quicker access to start / complete a focus session. A commonly used hotkey is ^ F.

Open Raycast → Settings → Extensions → Raycast Notes to record a hotkey.

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Starting

Begin by starting a new focus session. This can be something broad like “Coding Session” or a more granular task you want to complete.

• Define your goal for the session.
• Then set a duration, this can be anything from 5 minutes to an entire day. You can also use natural language to define a timeframe like until 4:30pm .
• Finally enter the distracting apps or websites you want to block out for the duration of your focus session. We’ve defined some categories to make this easier to block out things like Social Media or News sites.

Start a new focus session

Tracking