Focusmate
I recently started using Focusmate again. It’s a tool to help you stay on task — you get paired with another user and turn your webcam on to ‘keep you honest’ and on task. I initially used it in 2019, back when I was between jobs and needed to focus on grinding out Leetcodes in preparation for interviews. Recently I ran across a thread where people were talking about it and decided to give it a shot again. I forgot how great it is! What I especially like is that they recently released a “Focus Now” feature, where you simply click you’re ‘ready’ to be paired with someone right away to start a 50-minute focus session (before, you needed to use a calendar to schedule coworking sessions). I really don’t enjoy having specific start times, so I much prefer this free-for-all feature.
Would recommend folks give it a shot — their free plan allows you to use it up to 3x per week, enough to figure out if you like it. I have been using it enough that I subscribed to their yearly plan that allows unlimited usages. I’m not sure it’s something I’ll use every day, but I do think of it as akin to the Pomodoro technique — a tool to return to at least every few months so that it feels like an asset you can turn to for increasing focus.