Focus & Distraction

Stop the drift. Stay in the room.

ADHD brains aren't broken — they're interest-driven. The moment a task gets boring, the brain hunts for something more stimulating. These five tools work with that wiring: they raise the stimulation floor, catch the moment you drift, and make it easy to snap back.

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The apps

🔒 FocusJail

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Lock yourself to a set of apps. Wander into a distraction app and your Mac escalates — "no" → "no no no" → "NOOOOOO!" — then yanks you back. It’s funny on purpose. Funny sticks.

🌊 BoringRedirect

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Drift to a doom-domain and the tab quietly redirects to something genuinely fascinating — the deep sea, tardigrades, the cosmos — before you’ve even registered you opened it.

🎧 Focus Noise

A fully synthesized, mixable wall of sound: brown noise, pink noise, white noise, rain, fan hum. No audio files — generated in real-time by the Web Audio API. Silence is harder for ADHD brains; noise raises the baseline.

📖 Reading Ruler

Paste in dense text and read it one highlighted line at a time, with optional bionic bolding (the first half of each word is bold, anchoring the eye). Eliminates losing your place in walls of text.

⚓ Waypoint

One hotkey snapshots your current app, tab, and next action. An interruption can’t wipe your context — a ship’s log of saved anchors lets you sail straight back to exactly where you were.

The neuroscience — why this pack works

Default-mode network over-engagement. ADHD brains show reduced suppression of the default-mode network during tasks, making mind-wandering the brain’s default rather than an exception. External anchors (Waypoint) and environmental barriers (FocusJail) reduce the cost of re-entry.

Dopaminergic novelty-seeking. Lower tonic dopamine in the ADHD prefrontal cortex means ordinary tasks can’t compete with novel stimuli. Redirecting to genuinely interesting content (BoringRedirect) satisfies the novelty drive without derailing work.

Auditory masking & arousal regulation. Research by Söderlund et al. (2010) found moderate background noise improves working memory performance in children with ADHD — the "stochastic resonance" model. Brown/pink noise is optimal for masking intrusive stimuli without over-arousing.

Visual crowding & reading difficulty. Roughly 30–40% of people with ADHD also have reading difficulty. A moving focus window (Reading Ruler) reduces crowding effects and keeps the eye anchored, measurably increasing reading comprehension.

Context reinstatement. Working memory deficits (Barkley, 2015) mean ADHD brains struggle to hold "where was I?" across interruptions. Externalising context (Waypoint) restores the mental workspace without relying on memory.

Focus & Distraction pack — $5.99

All 5 apps in this pack. Direct Mac download. Offline license.

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