Tool · 09
Set your hard stop before you dive in. The alarm escalates until it pulls you out.
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Set your exit before you dive in
Honest bit: the alarm only fires while this tab is open. Browsers can't make noise from a closed tab — so keep this tab around and your sound on.
Hyperfocus filters out gentle reminders — a single quiet ping barely registers. This alarm ramps: a soft nudge five minutes out, a firmer one at one minute, then a sound that keeps repeating until you answer it.
Naming what you're headed to makes leaving easier. An exit with a destination beats an exit into the void.
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