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Batch alerts with Focus Mode

Focus Mode holds back "needs you" alerts and releases them together, after a few pile up or some time passes, so you can work without interruptions.

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Focus Mode collects the alerts your agents raise when they need you and releases them in one batch, instead of interrupting you each time. Turn it on for deep work; your agents keep working meanwhile.

Turn Focus Mode on#

  1. Open Settings > Notifications and choose the Focus Mode tab.

  2. Turn on Focus Mode.

  3. Work. Sessions that need you wait quietly, and the Inbox shows how many are waiting.

  4. When enough have piled up, or enough time has passed, everything waiting is released at once. Clear your Inbox and Focus Mode goes quiet again.

Focus ModeSettings, Notifications > Focus ModeBatches inbox alerts so they fire on a count or time threshold instead of interrupting on every Needs-You sessionOpen in YardmasterOpens Yardmaster. Don't have it? Download

Turn the same switch off to get every alert as it happens again.

Choose when the batch is released#

By default a batch is released when 4 sessions need you or 30 minutes have passed, whichever comes first. Change either number, or require both.

Count threshold (sessions)Settings, Notifications > Focus ModeNumber of Needs-You sessions that must accumulate before Focus Mode releases a batched alertOpen in YardmasterOpens Yardmaster. Don't have it? Download
Time threshold (minutes)Settings, Notifications > Focus ModeMaximum minutes to wait before Focus Mode releases a batched alert even below the count thresholdOpen in YardmasterOpens Yardmaster. Don't have it? Download

Let Pomodoro run it for you#

With Auto-Enable Focus Mode During Focus Blocks on, Pomodoro turns Focus Mode on for each focus block and off for breaks, releasing what was held. When the run ends, Focus Mode goes back to how it was. If you switch Focus Mode yourself during a run, Pomodoro leaves it to you until that run ends.

Auto-Enable Focus Mode During Focus BlocksSettings, Notifications > Alarms · Default: OnWhen on, starting a focus block silences notifications via Focus Mode; breaks release them. Manually toggling the bell icon during a run stops Pomodoro from managing it for the rest of the run. Per-preset overrides still win.Open in YardmasterOpens Yardmaster. Don't have it? Download

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