These very nice beans want to help you stop

Beans only He wants to hold.

With their appearance, POE, the name that the beans gave the moving brown in the Focus Friend app, screams a small storm that will eventually become socks – if you can leave it alone. Unfortunately, I need to check my text. The temporary was canceled after six minutes, which warns me that the knitting of Bo will collapse and “they will be really sad.” Their shoulders fell with the collapse of their work and a small bubble appears over their head. “It’s okay, we tried,” reassures me. It turns out that the text that I was very desperate to see is the random mail.

Focus Friend, a temporary productivity application designed to maintain your phone by mainly seizing it to KNIT, climbed mobile phone charts during the past few days, and even this writing, is second on Google Play and 3 in the application store. From the girls ’ideas of the developer Brea Sullivan and Piotop and the author Hank Green, she briefly won applications like ChatGPT and Tiktok and Now is notorious tea.

Focus Friend is not the first of its kind, but the latest in a growing application of applications, including Forest, Focus Traveller, Exocus and Focus Tree, designed to prevent users from getting rid of phones on their phones. Like the Pomodoro method, the time management technology that divides the work into periods of concentration and comfort, these applications are temporarily used to encourage users to imprison everything else. Unlike traditional pomodoro, analog, applications operated the experiment with bonuses. For every successful part of the time, I allow beans to hold without interruption, as it makes me socks I can then mediate for decorations. These are transmitted directly to the living space in beans, which is a small brown room with wooden floors that feel free from any life. I have the ability to make a bean life better, if I can just prevent myself from passing.

Sullivan intelligently designed the application in a way that implants a little guilt and a little love for this legumes with the donkey Hank Hill. (She says that the green dictates this specific design: “He said that the character must be a pill, and it must have a fracture with a footnote.”

McKenna, 19 -year -old Focus user who refused to give his last name, is consistent with this feeling, attributed to Bean’s character to make the application more “fun” and cycle. Although they found that the Pomodoro method and the time of productivity are generally useful, MCKENNA says they have not been able to find a way I love it yet. “I was also using Focus Friend to appoint myself for myself in the morning, so I am more excited to be out of my phone and get out of the bed.”

However, even beans are not immune from the song siren for the phone. Sullivan is keen to include them enjoying a little scroll, and the tongue, when the application is placed in a break between focus sessions. When we talk on the phone, Sullivan itself is multi -task. It is busy changing diapers. “I feel I am using my phone against my will, most of the time,” she says. “I feel addicted to that.” Instead of attending, Sullivan says she is always passing. “There are times when I feel that I should focus on my child while she is, like eating, or meditation and presence only,” she says, adding, “There is a lot of guilt that comes with a phone and participate in technology these days.”