Focusmate - Virtual coworking for getting anything done

Idea - Editing Session Title (for Calendar) to set personal intention / time block Currently; when I book sessions it adds to my google calendar "Focusmate + Name etc". If I could edit those in the FM Dashboard and have those push to my calendar I'd love to be able to set better intentions ideally in both my FM Dash + push to my Digital Calendar.

A way to add what we accomplished to our calendar in each session? Or instructions on how to do it?

Love focusmate. I think missing a session should be penalized. And what others said about handling a late session by being able to drop in at say 12:05pm would be amazing. Also upvoting the idea to better track what I do, I would love more formal inputting of what I'm doing, deliverables achieved, etc., and reporting and understanding of how long things took. Some combination of toggle, complice, ticktick...

I just LOVE Focusmate! I cannot express how grateful I am to have come across this tool, it helps me so much in my personal and professional life. It's probably one of my favourite platforms so far...thank you so much for this! Would love to work for a product like this one day. Was looking through some other comments and I thought it indeed would be cool to have a label that indicates what you're focusing on - professional work, personal life organisation, leisure, etc. so you can get to match with someone who are working on similar projects. Otherwise, just wanted to say a big thanks!

Hi! Love Focusmate. I'd love it if I could set a comitted session formyself where I'm not allowed to cancel it -- if I do it x times maybe my account gets cancelled or I get charged money, or something. I love that Focusmate helps me get stuff done but I really don't want to do anything I tend to just cancel the session shortly before it starts. Something like what was suggested would help, I think. Some kind of system to disincline people (myself included) from cancelling sessiosn with ten or fewer minutes to go would be great too. With 75 min sessions especially (I'm guessing it has the fewest amount of users) you often end up getting your session canceled if your partner quits on you shortly before the start time.

I have 2500 sessions so far, and I agree with many others that Focusmate is lifechanging and indespensible! What I would love to see is: 1) Optional sound notification for chat, in the very least a visual cue that our partner has said something. 2) Option to make the picture-in-picture much smaller than it's current smallest size. 3) Option to hide when others share their screen. I say this as someone who shares their own screen, but have been told it's distracting (even after the person said it would be fine, they changed their mind because I was painting). 4) Option to select gender of partner for only certain sessions. 5) Option to mark sessions as deskwork or moving around- for each session not just the whole account in general. 6) Allow us to have our own custom FAQ in our profiles~ Thanks for this opportunity to share ideas!

I love Focusmate. Lifechanging. Regarding late partners, I think Focusmate needs better alerts. There are 3rd party plug-ins so that you can have an alarm before the session starts, but I need alarms a minute before and again 5 seconds before. These alarms don’t work if you are off the main page reading your partner’s profile or editing your own, etc. and I’ve been late to sessions because of this. Also, we definitely need to be able to specify that a given session is for screen work vs other tasks. Who the person is or what they are working on should be irrelevant, but whether they will be wiggling and wandering the entire time, or will have their eyes closed in meditation the entire time—these are the things that can make people self-conscious or distract partners, and people should be able to opt in or out as needed. Please do avoid feature bloat beyond this though. Streamlined is best!

me again: would it be possible to add the remaining time also to the pop-up window?

Hey guys! 1) cool app, I used it 3 times 2) I want to use it more, but 80-something bucks seem too much for me, when I'm still testing the platform out 3) Can I somehow grab a month free without committing to a paid year? I want to understand how I could use this app in the longer run, than 3 sessions. Thanks in advance :)))))

I've been using Focusmate for years. Although to be honest, have fallen off the past 6 months or so in favor of similar tools that allow me to easily work together with others WITHOUT needing to talk. I'd absolutely be 100% back if I could schedule chat-only sessions. Most of my day that's the only way I can work. Well, that and a built in checklist ;)