How it works
A focus timer with a destination
FlowFlight is a timer built for flow state. Pick a 25, 45, 90, or 120 minute focus timer on a real flight path, take off, and stay airborne until you land.
Start flyingUse cases
A focus timer for the work that needs a landing
Same clock, different corridors. Pick a 25, 45, 90, or 120 minute focus timer and stay airborne until the work has a gate.
Engineering
Focus timer for coding
A 90 min timer for a feature, a refactor, or a debugging stretch that should not lose the thread to another tab.
Writing
Focus timer for writing
Draft, edit, or ship a post in one airborne block. The landing is the deadline — not an open doc you mean to finish later.
Study
Focus timer for studying
A 25 minute timer for a single chapter, or a 90 min timer when the material needs a full deep-work cycle.
Design
Focus timer for design
Stay in the file until the gate. Cabin noise and a moving map keep the session on course while you iterate.
Research
Deep work for research
Read papers, review a PR, or think through a hard problem for 45, 60, or 120 minutes without a stack of short alarms.
Session lengths
25 to 120 minutes of deep work
Every route is a timed focus timer. Choose the block that matches the work — including a 90 min timer for a full deep-work cycle.
25 min
25 minute timer
A short hop — the same length as a classic pomodoro — when you have one clean block.
45 min
45 minute timer
A longer stretch without a break. Enough runway to get into the work, not so long that the landing feels abstract.
60 min
60 minute timer
An hour in the air. One focused session with a visible destination instead of a countdown in a browser tab.
90 min
90 min timer
A full deep-work cycle. Alertness rises and dips in roughly 90-minute waves — this is the block most people already mean by “a real session.”
120 min
120 minute timer
A long-haul focus timer for work that needs two hours of uninterrupted attention.
Why it works
Built on how attention actually works
The aviation skin isn’t decoration. A flight is a container for flow — the constraints, the moving map, and the session lengths come from well-studied attention science.
Flow state
A corridor for flow
Flow needs a clear goal, immediate feedback, and just enough challenge to hold attention. A flight gives you all three: a destination, a moving map, and a block long enough to disappear into the work.
Parkinson’s Law
A hard landing beats an open tab
Work expands to fill the time available. A flight has a gate time. That constraint is the focus session — not a suggestion, a landing slot.
Goal-gradient effect
Progress you can see
People persist more as they perceive themselves getting closer to a goal. Watching the aircraft close the gap makes remaining time tangible, not abstract.
Implementation intentions
A when–then plan
“When I take off, I work until landing” is a specific cue–action pair. Research on implementation intentions shows these plans outperform vague goals like “I’ll focus later.”
Ultradian rhythms
Blocks that match the brain
Alertness naturally rises and dips in roughly 90-minute cycles. The 90 min timer — and the 25, 45, 60, and 120 minute routes — map onto the blocks most people already use for deep work.
FAQ
Focus timer questions
Is FlowFlight a pomodoro timer?
It’s a focus timer with a destination instead of a tomato. You can fly a 25 minute timer if you want a pomodoro-length hop, or choose 45, 60, 90, or 120 minutes when the work needs a longer block.
What is the 90 min timer for?
A 90 min timer is one ultradian cycle — the span most people can hold deep work before attention dips. Pick that corridor when you want a full session, not a stack of short alarms.
Do I need an account?
No. The globe, cabin noise, and timer work signed out. Sign in with Google only if you want hops of 10 minutes or more saved to your logbook.
Can I pause a focus session?
Yes. Pause and resume from the flight deck. The clock only runs while you’re airborne. End early if you need to — signed-in flights under 10 minutes focused are not logged.
Take a flight
Pick a corridor. Confirm your pass. Stay in flow until you land.
Start flying