Focus for Google Docs

Focus helps you enter the writing flow by decluttering Google Docs and adding a pomodoro timer.
What is Focus for Google Docs?
Focus for Google Docs is a Chrome extension designed to enhance your writing flow by decluttering the interface and providing a pomodoro timer. It simplifies Google Docs by hiding distracting controls, allowing minimalists or easily distracted individuals to concentrate solely on the text. The included pomodoro timer motivates users to write continuously for a designated period, such as 15 minutes. Improve your productivity and get in the zone with Focus for Google Docs!

Extension stats

Users: 983 ▲ 27
Rating: 4.50 (6)
Version: 1.4 (Last updated: 2024-10-14)
Creation date: 2023-01-01
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • background
  • tabs
  • storage
Size: 241.66K
URLs: Website

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Extension summary

Want to enter the writing flow in Google Docs? Focus hides the distracting controls so you can focus just on your text. It includes a pomodoro timer to motivate you to write continuously for a period of time, such as 15 minutes.

-------How to use------- Start a pomodoro timer by hovering the button in the bottom right and choosing a duration. If you click the button labeled Focus, it will toggle focus mode. Option click the button to toggle full screen.

Right-click the extension icon at the top right of your browser and select "Options" to open a page for configuring the extension's settings.

-------Privacy Policy------- Focus never collects any of your data. Focus is completely transparent. You can view the open-source code here: https://github.com/JoelGrayson/Focus

User reviews

Amazing extension, it's helped me so much. Even collapsing the formatting options into a tiny bar in default Docs isn't enough, I need the page to be completely clear of clutter, which this does excellently. There is a slight inconvenience, being that every time I accidentally press escape, the distracting menus and stuff return and I'm not sure how to remove them again without exciting and re-entering focus mode - which reloads the page and forces me to find my place again, re-zoom the document, etc. Is there any way to have an option to disable the escape control? Or am I missing something?
by daz c, 2024-08-31

by Christian Haugbølle, 2024-06-17

eeeeh yeah. i mean you cant exactly get the controls back afterwards. idk if this is just a glitch but ¯\_(T▽T)_/¯
by Jasmine L, 2023-12-11
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Focus for Google Docs requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Focus for Google Docs has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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