Practice
A room to work in, when starting alone is the hard part
A shared 25-minute session clock on the half hour, and a count of how many tabs are in the room with you. Free.
Body doubling is the plain name for something a lot of people with ADHD already know works: another person being present is what lets you start. It does not need them to help, watch, or even know what you are doing. This room gives you a shared clock and a count of other tabs using it.
Turn on JavaScript to use the timer. Sessions start on the hour and half-hour, and last 25 minutes.
How it works
Sessions start on the hour and on the half hour and run for twenty-five minutes, with the last five minutes as a break. Press I’m here and you are counted in the current session. Work. When the clock runs out, take the five minutes.
What the number means, exactly
The count is tabs that opened this room during the current half hour. It is not a number of verified people, and this page will not pretend otherwise: there is no account here, nothing identifies anybody, and so there is nothing to check a person against. Anyone determined to inflate it can. It is capped, and it is offered as a rough sign that you are not the only one at your desk — which is the whole job it has.
We could make that number trustworthy by giving everybody an identity to be counted by. That would mean storing something about each person, which is the one thing this site does not do, so we would rather have a softer number and no record of you.
What is stored
Two running totals per half hour: how many tabs arrived, and how many sessions were marked finished today. Both expire on their own. No account, no identifier, no address, nothing written to your browser’s storage, and nothing about what you are working on — the room never asks.
If the count is unavailable the clock still works, and the page says so rather than showing you a zero that might be a lie.