A focus app for iOS
FocusCard puts that one task on your screen, huge. It mirrors to your Lock Screen so it stays visible when the phone's off. You'll still drift. The way back is one tap.
Built for deep work, ADHD focus, and anyone who's ever taped a sticky note to their laptop.
Your iOS Reminders, grouped by list. Pick the one task you want to focus on.
Tap the task. The screen turns black, the title fills it, everything else disappears.
The screen stays awake. The task lives on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island while you work.
Mark Complete checks it off in Reminders. Tap anywhere else to pause and pick a different task.
There's an idea from meditation that fits here. Meditation isn't about eliminating thoughts. It's about noticing you've drifted and coming back to your breath. The practice is the return.
FocusCard works the same way. You'll still get distracted; that's how attention works, not a failure of will. The job is making the return easy. Glance at your Lock Screen. Tap the Dynamic Island. You're back on the one task.
One tap. No friction. No shame about drifting.
For a year, I had a stack of 3×5 index cards on my desk. Every morning I'd write the one thing I most needed to do that day, in big letters, and prop it next to my laptop. When I drifted, the card was right there — louder than any notification.
The problem was the cards. They went missing. Or I'd start work somewhere else and not have them. Or write the task on my phone first and forget to write it on a card.
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So I built FocusCard. Same idea, on the device I always have with me. Pick a reminder, see it big, prop the phone next to the laptop. The Lock Screen carries the same task whenever the screen is off.
I use it every day. The screen-stays-awake feature isn't a setting — it's the whole point. The card on my desk never went to sleep either.
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This sentence was written with a focus card on my Lock Screen.
FocusCard isn't a Pomodoro timer or a habit tracker. It's a digital index card — propped where the thing you most want to ignore lives. The mechanism is well-studied: