Built around the part that actually fails.
Productivity tools tend to assume the hard part is remembering what to do. For a lot of people — particularly anyone working with ADHD — the hard part is starting, re-starting after an interruption, and knowing how much time has passed. Flow is organised around those three failures rather than around storage and tagging.
Sessions ramp from five minutes. A finished five is worth more than an abandoned twenty-five, so five is treated as a real session rather than a consolation. When choosing is the expensive part, Flow will choose for you.
Every interruption costs you the thread. When a session ends on unfinished work, Flow asks for one line — what to start with next time — and hands it back when you return, so re-entry is cheap instead of another act of will.
Time blindness is not a discipline problem. The day is drawn as a depleting quantity, meetings are shown as in 23 minutes rather than 14:30, and the log tells you which hours you actually finish work in.
Reply to the vendor thread
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30mFig. 01 — The Day view. One task promoted, one clock running, everything else quiet.
Six things, and you have the whole system.
There is no setup, no account and no configuration required before it is useful. The first screen asks you for one task; everything below is optional depth you can pick up whenever you want it.
Throw things in without thinking
Press C anywhere and type. No project, no due date, no priority — just the thought, out of your head and into the queue. The capture box in the Queue panel does the same thing if you would rather click.
A capture step with five required fields is a capture step people stop using.
Promote exactly one task
Click any task to make it Next up. That card is the only task the interface treats as real. If you cannot decide, press N and Flow picks one for you, weighting small, already-started and long-waiting work above everything else.
Stuck on where to begin? Break it down records the first physical action — something under two minutes that requires no decisions. That line, not the task title, is what you actually start from.
Start smaller than feels respectable
Choose 5, 15, 25 or 45 minutes, or press Space to start immediately. Sessions attach to the promoted task, so the time is recorded against real work rather than against a generic timer.
Press F for Now mode: full screen, one task, one number, nothing else on it.
Park the thought instead of chasing it
When something unrelated surfaces mid-session — and it will — press P, type it, and it lands in the queue. The session keeps running.
The distraction is not the problem. Leaving the session to deal with it is.
Let the list retire itself
Anything untouched for ten days moves to the Shelf on its own. It is not deleted and it is not marked as failure — it is simply out of the way. Revive what still matters, drop the rest.
Habits carry one grace day per week, so a bad Tuesday costs you a day rather than the whole streak.
A list you avoid opening is worse than no list at all.
Read the record, not a score
Press L for the Log: which hour of the day you actually complete sessions in, how your estimates compare with measured time, and how much you tend to under-count. It is written as description rather than judgement — there are no targets to miss.
Everything is one key away.
Press ? inside the app to bring this up at any time.
What it is, and what it deliberately isn't.
Being clear about the edges is more useful than a feature list.
Runs entirely in your browser. Your tasks, sessions and habits are stored on your own machine and never sent anywhere. Export a JSON backup whenever you like; import it on another machine to move.
No accounts, no sync, no server. Clearing your browser data clears Flow — take an export if that matters to you. This is a deliberate trade for privacy and for having nothing to maintain.
Works offline once loaded, and can optionally run a language model on your own device to break down a stuck task or write your end-of-day read-back.
Not a team tool, a project tracker or a replacement for treatment. It is a single-player instrument for getting through a working day.
Reasonable things to ask first.
Is my data sent anywhere?
How is this different from a normal pomodoro timer?
Do I need ADHD for this to be useful?
What happens to tasks I never do?
Will I lose everything if I clear my browser?
Does it cost anything?
Start with five minutes.
No sign-up, no setup. The first screen asks you for one task, and you can be running a session about ten seconds later.