Every hour is a seed.
Diligence puts one calm breath between the urge and the scroll, so your hours grow into the life you meant.
One tab. Three hours. Again.
You opened it for a second. The doc is still blank, the evening has gone grey, and every blocker you tried had an off switch you found by day two.
A breath before every door.
Open a site you have guarded and the world pauses. Nothing is taken from you. You only have to mean it.
Press and hold. Space works too.
It grows taller each time you push.
Breathe
One slow breath before the page appears.
Wait
Ten seconds the first time. Longer each visit, up to three minutes.
Type
A phrase in your own words, typed out in full.
Budget
A hard daily allowance. When it is spent, the door stays shut until midnight.
Most blockers fade by week two. This one learns your habit and holds its ground.
Every new tab opens onto your day.
Not a feed. Today's tasks, the one thing that matters, and a quiet timer that follows you across every page you visit.
Today
0 Focus Coins
Try it. Nothing here is saved.
What you keep, grows.
Focus Coins are a small, honest ledger of the hours you kept. Spend them on rewards you set for yourself.
- +5
- Walk away from a gate
- +2
- Finish a task
- +8
- Complete a focus block
- +10
- Take a break that restores you
- +25
- Stay under budget all day
Sixty-six days, one lantern at a time.
A new habit takes about sixty-six days to feel automatic. The habit trail lights one lantern for each day you show up, and it never shames you for a missed one.
The day ends when you say.
At bedtime your feeds slow down, the friction rises, and if you choose, your laptop winds itself down.
- Safe bedtimeFeeds close gently at the hour you pick.
- Graceful shutdownOpt in, and your machine saves and sleeps.
- Prayer timesCalculated on your device, with a warning before each window closes.
One root system. Three branches.
Browser
Chrome, Edge, Brave and Firefox. The gate, your new tab, and a timer on every page.
Desktop
Guards apps as well as sites, with the same gentle gate in front of them.
Phone
On Android, Diligence guards the apps you choose. iPhone comes later.
Your roots stay yours.
Diligence is local first. Sync is encrypted with a key made on your own device, so our server only ever holds ciphertext. Export or delete everything, whenever you like.
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Plant the first hour.
Diligence is in a private beta, local first with encrypted sync. Request a seat and we will write when one opens.
Invite-only private beta. One email when your invitation is ready, nothing else.