Window Seat - Website Blocker & Focus Dashboard

Window Seat - Your Digital Window Seat for Deep Work Transform your browser into a peaceful productivity sanctuary. Block distracting websites, lock into focus mode, and enhance your concentration with 40Hz gamma audio—all wrapped in a cozy, warm interface that makes deep work feel effortless. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ WHAT MAKES WINDOW SEAT DIFFERENT? Most productivity tools feel cold and clinical. Window Seat is different. We've created a warm, inviting environment where focusing feels natural—not forced. It's like sitting by a window in your favorite coffee shop, completely absorbed in your work while the world goes by outside. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 CORE FEATURES 🪟 Cozy Study Dashboard Beautiful animated window view with warm colors and gentle animations that create a naturally calming focus environment. ⏱️ Real-Time Focus Timer Track your focus sessions with a clean countdown timer. Watch your progress and see exactly how much focused time you've invested. 🚫 Smart Website Blocker Block distracting websites during focus sessions. Pre-loaded with common distractions (Facebook, Reddit, YouTube), fully customizable to your needs. Blocked sites redirect you back to your focus dashboard. 🔐 Shame Phrase Protection Want to quit early? You'll need to type: "I am choosing distraction over my goals." This intentional friction gives you a moment to reconsider impulsive decisions and stay committed. 🎵 40Hz Gamma Focus Audio Backed by neuroscience research, our built-in 40Hz binaural audio enhances concentration and cognitive performance. The gamma frequency (40Hz) is associated with heightened alertness and improved focus. Toggle on/off based on your preference. 🔄 Optional New Tab Replacement Transform every new tab into a reminder to stay focused. Enable this optional feature to replace Chrome's default new tab with your cozy focus dashboard. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 HOW IT WORKS 1. Set Your Duration - Choose your focus session length (5 minutes to 3 hours) 2. Customize Your Blocklist - Add the websites that distract YOU 3. Lock In - Click "Lock In" to start blocking sites and tracking time 4. Get to Work - All blocked websites become inaccessible until your session ends 5. Stay Committed - To quit early, type the shame phrase (or just wait it out!) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY FIRST Your data never leaves your device. Period. Window Seat stores everything locally using Chrome's storage API. No analytics, no tracking, no data collection, no third-party services. What we store locally: • Your custom blocklist • Focus session state • User preferences (audio, new tab settings) That's it. Nothing more. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧠 THE SCIENCE BEHIND 40HZ AUDIO Research shows gamma frequency brainwaves (around 40Hz) are associated with: • Enhanced focus and concentration • Improved cognitive performance • Better memory formation • Heightened sensory perception Our extension generates pure 40Hz binaural beats you can listen to during focus sessions. Many users report feeling more alert and focused with the audio feature. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👥 PERFECT FOR ✅ Students preparing for exams or working on assignments ✅ Remote workers minimizing home distractions ✅ Freelancers managing their own productivity ✅ Writers seeking uninterrupted creative flow ✅ Developers tackling complex coding problems ✅ Anyone struggling with digital distractions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔧 PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED We only request permissions necessary for Window Seat to function: • storage - Saves your settings and blocklist locally on your device • declarativeNetRequest - Blocks websites efficiently during focus sessions • alarms - Manages focus session timers • tabs - Optional new tab replacement feature • <all_urls> - Required to redirect blocked websites to your dashboard All permissions are used solely for core functionality. Your privacy is respected. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 PRO TIPS Start Small - Begin with 25-30 minute sessions and build your focus muscle gradually. Be Honest - Add the sites YOU actually waste time on, not just the obvious ones. Try the Audio - Give 40Hz audio a few sessions to see if it helps your concentration. Respect the Phrase - When tempted to type the shame phrase, pause and ask if you really want to break your focus. Build Routine - Use Window Seat at the same time each day to develop consistent focus habits. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛠️ BUILT WITH MODERN TECH • React 18 + TypeScript for robust, type-safe code • Framer Motion for smooth, delightful animations • Tailwind CSS for beautiful, responsive design • Chrome Extension Manifest V3 (latest standard) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌟 JOIN THE FOCUSED COMMUNITY Your digital window seat awaits. Install Window Seat today and transform your browser into a sanctuary for focused, meaningful work. Because the best work happens when you're in the right environment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Need help? Check our support resources or reach out through the Chrome Web Store reviews. Privacy Policy: All data stored locally. Full privacy policy available on our website.