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 these commands:

Start Focus Session: This command opens a form to configure your focus session.
Toggle Focus Session: This command allows you to toggle between starting or completing a focus session. Starting will use the previously used setup.
Create Focus Category: Use this command to create categories of apps and websites to block. These categories can be used when starting a new focus session.
Search Focus Category: Use this command to search focus categories. Built-in categories are crafted by Raycast and not editable. However, they can be duplicated and saved with another title.
Import Focus Categories: Import categories from a JSON file. More info on the supported format here.

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

Edit Focus Session: This command allows you to edit your current focus session.
Complete Focus Session: This command allows you to complete your current focus session.
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 .
Set the filtering mode for running the session.
- Block: Only apps and websites that are listed will be blocked.
- Allow: All apps and websites will be blocked except those listed.