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michaeltigas, 15 days ago to productivity

I found a purpose for the Action Button on iPhone 15 Pro!

Turn on focusOS 🔓🔒

#buildinpublic #focusos #productivity

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michaeltigas, 15 days ago to random

🚀 @focusOS_ is now live on the App Store!! 🥳🎉

focusOS is a super-utility for Mac & iOS that hides all distractions with one click.

It seamlessly adjusts your devices for work and supercharges your productivity.

Download ➡️ https://apps.apple.com/app/id6479256195

Here are some of the cool things it does;

1️⃣ Dim inactive apps, limit visible apps, hide the wallpaper, and more (on Mac)
2️⃣ Block news, social media, and other distracting apps & websites
3️⃣ Play ambient sounds to improve concentration, as if you were working from a cafe

And also;

4️⃣ Turn on Do Not Disturb automatically with Shortcuts
5️⃣ Link your Mac, iPhone, iPad together - to sync environments in real-time

It’s become essential to my workflow, especially when I just want to focus on work without a hassle. Simply flick the switch and get straight into it.

See it in action ➡️ https://focusOS.app
Download on the App Store ➡️ https://apps.apple.com/app/id6479256195

Try it out and let me know what you think!

Thank you to every single person that has supported focusOS during the last few weeks, I really appreciate it! 🙂🙂

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michaeltigas, 2 months ago to random

So uh, been using macOS for 13 years and ONLY JUST REALISED you can pin files to the Finder toolbar?! 🤯🤯🤯

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matthewcassinelli, 3 months ago to random

Shortcuts on the visionOS beta rips.

Clipboard actions restored, Open App works as expected with multiple apps, overall very quick relatively 🙏

icanzilb, 3 months ago to random

So I finally got an 🍏 watch and I have to say I had it completely backwards in the past.

I was somewhat afraid I'm gonna have to handle even more notifications and interact with more apps when I wear it... But in fact I interact with apps much less now, 1st I banned all apps that EVER showed an ad on the watch and 2nd there's not much to do with notifications on the watch besides closing them right away. I really like it so far 👍🏼

Any watch app recommendations?

michaeltigas, 3 months ago to productivity

Focused Work 5 has launched today! 🚀🥳

Featuring a new design improving what makes it so unique and helpful for people trying to focus and get stuff done. ✨

Download ➡️ https://apple.co/2GGDYla
Lil promo video ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCVPfA5vgZw

(Boosts appreciated! 🙏)

#buildinpublic #productivity #AppleVisionPro

1️⃣ Flowmodoro

Otherwise known as the Flowtime Technique, lets you dive straight into a focus session until you need to take a break, with your breaks determined by how long you focus for.

#flowmodoro #flowtime #pomodoro #focus #adhd

2️⃣ Apple Vision Pro

Focused Work will be available for Apple Vision Pro on Day 1, marking an exciting new chapter for focus and productivity.

The same powerful timer is now omnipresent for running timed Focus Sessions anywhere on your canvas.

#VisionPro

3️⃣ Basic Sessions

Quickly start a focus session ranging from a simple timer to common focus techniques;
• Pomodoro
• Flowmodoro
• Simple Timer
• Flexible Timer
• Structured

4️⃣ Flexible Sessions

Create and configure flexible sessions that let you manage unpredictable schedules.

→ Take quick breaks
→ Adjust the timer
→ Prepare for the next task

and more.

5️⃣ Interactive Widgets

Reimagined, adding interactivity for starting and controlling your session from the Home Screen or Lock Screen.

6️⃣ Live Activities

Always keep an eye your focus session from the Lock Screen, or from the Dynamic Island.

7️⃣ Large Timer

Rotate your iPhone to see a much larger timer, to keep an eye on your session across the table.

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Focused Work 5 is available today on the App Store, for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro.

Download: https://apple.co/2GGDYla

Enjoy! 🙏

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michaeltigas, 8 months ago to random

It amazes me how much a little polish for a landing page can make an app feel like an actual product.

Spent the last couple days creating a new site for Focused Work with Framer. https://focusedwork.app

#buildinpublic

michaeltigas, 8 months ago to random

iOS 17 day is here, and with a nice productivity update for my beloved app Focused Work (https://apple.co/2GGDYla), to go along with it! 🚀🥳

Featuring three B I G new features that will help with focusing & staying productive;

1️⃣ Interactive Widgets
2️⃣ Live Activities
3️⃣ StandBy support

Here's a little more info about each.

1️⃣ Lock Screen Widgets

Start the timer with one quick tap, and also control the timer from your desktop in macOS Sonoma with Continuity Widgets.

2️⃣ Live Activities

View your active focus session from the Dynamic Island and the Lock Screen, on iPhone and iPad.

3️⃣ StandBy support

Glance at your current session from a distance, when iPhone is in StandBy.

...and plenty more improvements!

Focused Work for iOS 17 can be downloaded on the App Store, for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. 👇👇

https://apple.co/2GGDYla

Enjoy! 🙏

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matthewcassinelli, 8 months ago to random

Today is the release of iOS 17 and I’ll be sharing app update posts!

Developers – please share what your app does, what’s new, and a link to the App Store!

michaeltigas, 10 months ago to random

After fighting the buggy mess of a new Xcode... i've finally got interactive widgets + StandBy working for Focused Work’s timer widget. 😀

My favourite part of the new API's is finally being able to add buttons to the small widget!

_Davidsmith, 10 months ago to random

Anyone else who's building Interactive Widgets running into a situation where you suddenly start to see loads of "[INIntent _initWithIdentifier:backingStore:schema:error:] Missing backing store for Intent:” errors in the console and your widgets stop responding to input? When this happens the same code will eventually start working again but can be out of commission for a while.

Trying to work out if this is a “I'm doing it wrong" situation or a “it's still early betas" situation.

michaeltigas, 10 months ago to random

Just updated to Xcode 15 Beta and there seems to be an error with the AppEnum's caseDisplayRepresentations.

Anybody else experiencing the same issue?

Tested with Beta 2 and Beta 4 🤔

michaeltigas, 10 months ago to random

Know of any full-time indie developers/hackers on here who live in Melbourne, Australia?

Hit me up if so/tag them below!

Wondering who else is hanging out in my backyard... 👀

simonbs, 11 months ago to random

The new Now Playing screen in watchOS 10 looks great ✨ #WWDC #WWDC23

michaeltigas, 11 months ago to random

No more stacking DispatchQueue's or Task.sleeps to chain simple animations in SwiftUI. 🙏

#WWDC23

michaeltigas, 11 months ago to random

In-line if statements in Swift!

This was a big thing I missed when moving back to an iOS app written in Swift from a Kotlin Android app.

Much cleaner! ✨

#WWDC23

michaeltigas, 11 months ago to random

Computed properties inside a an @ Observable will update the UI in iOS 17!

We can now keep them in our ViewModel's rather than View's 🥳

#WWDC23

michaeltigas, 11 months ago to random

I love how SwiftData will make it super easy to establish a simple persistence layer when building out an app idea.

Muuuuch nicer than wrapping it all up into a string saved to UserDefaults!

#WWDC23

mackuba, 1 year ago to macos

I'm thinking about starting using a #Pomodoro app, can anyone recommend a good one? I'm looking for something simple but customizable, where I can set the length and whether it restarts automatically, and which shows time in the menu bar, but not in a way that draws attention too much 🍅🍅
#macOS #productivity