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Small Improvements

Would absolutely love to have a ‘one minute’ remaining banner before the intervention kicks in, to give time to quickly wrap up and avoid it.

I’m always caught unawares and half way through a sentence, so I have to go through the intervention just to finish what I was doing. Which lessens the power of the intervention!

I think the ability to set a really long intervention time, coupled with a ‘one minute remaining’ warning, would be a game changer.

Absolutely love the app though, have been using it for years - thank you for helping me get so much time back! 😊👍

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Posted by Nick ·
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  • Lucas

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    Nov 5

    Hi @Nick, thanks so much for your input. This reminds me of a similar feature request some time ago: https://feedback.one-sec.app/p/x-minutes-left-notification which is tagged “Completed”.

    My question is: For which platform do you wish this feature to be – or are you looking for greater customization options on iOS ?

    Because on iOS, your use case could be covered by:

    Don’t Get Lost! Notifications: Instead of a countdown it tells you the time you spent on the app (f.e. “It’s been 10 min already….”).

    50% Time Left Reminders: In these settings, you can also activate “50% Time Left Reminders” which will remind you after half the time is used up, before the Delayed or Re-Intervention kicks in.

    Dynamic Island Timer: Also, if you have an iPhone that supports Dynamic Island, you can turn on that feature to get a little progress indicator until the Re-Intervention kicks in. It shows your target app usage time in the Dynamic Island alongside your intention.

    Greater customization could look like this:
    • Don’t Get Lost Notifications: Choose between time spent and time remaining
    • 50% Time left Reminders: like a row of different selectable percentages (25%/ 50%/75%) or the option to show minutes instead of percentages?
    • Dynamic Island Timer: Choose between count down and count upwards.

    • Nick

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      Nov 5

      Hello, thank you so much for your reply, I wasn’t expecting such a fast response! Can I just say your product is amazing by the way, I have tried a few and by far yours is the best designed, thank you again for helping us to claw back some of our precious hours! 😊

      To reply to your questions, yes I am on IOS.

      I have already tried each of the features you suggest (and thank you for including these!) but after giving both a good trial on earlier occasions neither of them quite worked for me.

      The Dynamic Island timer I couldn’t use - unfortunately it is too visible to family members / colleagues when overlooking my phone, and I would get comments! Which although gave me a chance to sing the praises of your amazing app, it just became a distraction in itself : )

      The ‘half way’ timer also didn’t quite do the trick, as if I am 15 minutes through my 30 minutes on safari, I am still caught by surprise when the intervention kicks in 15 minutes later.

      I think a ‘one minute remaining’ notification would be a really big benefit to stop the interventions being such a surprise every time 😊 Or perhaps an Apple-like ‘one more minute’ button. Although I can see that might be harder to implement, and I think the former would actually work better. It would just be a big boost to be told - finish what you are doing right now or else 😂

      Even without this though, your app is brilliant. Thank you again!

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