Clear some mental space
Gather your thoughts, return to calm.
FoQus gives you a short, private reset where you can gather scattered thoughts, breathe or simply pause, and return to what comes next with less mental noise.
Built to strengthen your attention, not compete for it.
FoQus is currently being tested with a small group of users as we learn which reset styles, interactions, and configurations are genuinely useful.
FoQus is a recreational wellbeing and attention product. It is not therapy, diagnosis, treatment, or a medical device.
Sometimes your attention needs somewhere to settle before you move on.
Between tasks, meetings, study, decisions, and everyday demands, attention can become scattered and mentally crowded. FoQus creates a short, bounded space to pause, notice what is asking for attention, reduce unnecessary stimulation, and return more intentionally.
FoQus does not ask you to clear your mind, perform well, or reach a particular state. You can interact, breathe, observe, or simply do nothing for a few minutes.
What would help right now?
A FoQus session can begin with one simple, optional question: What would help right now?
Your choice can shape the suggested reset, but it does not diagnose or label how you feel. You can also skip the question completely.
Prepare to focus
Settle after something
Gather scattered thoughts
Make space around a decision
Slow down
Just pause
Not sure
Some moments call for interaction. Others call for nothing at all.
Guided Interactive
A gentle visual reset with attention objects, light guidance, and optional sound.
Quiet Interactive
Interact with the FoQus canvas without prompts or unnecessary guidance.
Guided Ambient
Let the environment move gently around you while optional cues support a short pause. No multitasking is required.
Silent Ambient
No prompts and no required interaction. FoQus simply provides a quiet visual space for the duration you choose.
Choose 1, 3, or 5 minutes.
Three minutes can be the default, but the session should always feel bounded and easy to leave.
1 minute
3 minutes
Default can be three minutes
5 minutes
A simple visual language for what is occupying your attention
FoQus can represent things asking for your attention as soft visual objects, such as bubbles. An object might represent a task, thought, worry, person, idea, decision, reminder, feeling, or simply something you have not yet named.
FoQus does not decide what an object means. You do.
You can define what these actions mean for you. Closing a bubble should not automatically mean the same thing for everyone.
Gather
Bring something toward the centre because you want to acknowledge or hold it in awareness.
Set aside
Remove something from this reset when you do not need to carry it right now.
Let it float
Leave something unresolved without needing to act on it.
Carry forward
Choose one thing you may want to remember when the session ends.
Make the reset yours without configuring everything every time.
Highly configurable underneath, simple on the surface. FoQus can remember behavioural preferences so repeat sessions require less setup.
Interactive or ambient
Session focus and prompts
1, 3, or 5 minutes
Soundscape or silence
Visual theme
Reduced motion and accessibility preferences
Designed to reduce pressure rather than create more of it
Slow and predictable visuals
Motion should remain gentle, predictable, and optional, with reduced motion available for users who prefer it.
No performance pressure
No scores, leaderboards, competitive mechanics, productivity ratings, or pressure to complete every object.
A reset that ends
FoQus is intentionally bounded. The goal is to help you return to work or life, not keep you inside another digital experience.
Privacy conscious by design
Core reset activity should require as little personal data as possible. Guest and local use should remain available, with session information kept local where appropriate.
Breathe with FoQus, or do not.
FoQus can offer a gentle breathing rhythm, including a slower exhale pattern, but there is no requirement to follow it precisely. You can follow the cue closely, follow it loosely, or simply breathe naturally.
No breath scores, no breath holding requirement, and no claim that one breathing pattern is correct for everyone.
Silence is a complete FoQus experience. Sound is optional.
Choose silence or a low distraction soundscape that fits the kind of reset you want, such as natural ambience, spacious textures, warm tones, or sparse sound.
Where enabled, sound can respond gently to visual interaction without claiming to interpret your psychological state.
Return without turning the reset into another task.
At the end, FoQus can simply show what you chose to gather, set aside, leave open, or carry forward. There is no score and no judgement about whether the session was successful.
If something still matters, you may choose to keep one thought or note. Future versions may optionally allow you to pass something into Mate.
Ready to return?
Yes · A little more ready · About the same · Not yet · Skip
The long term goal is to need FoQus less, not more.
FoQus is designed as an external scaffold for a process you can gradually internalise: pause, notice what is asking for attention, represent it mentally, choose how to relate to it, settle, and return.
Use the full visual canvas.
Use fewer prompts and lighter guidance.
Use a minimal canvas or audio only.
Close your eyes and recreate the process mentally.
FoQus should optimise for capability transfer, not time spent.
Use FoQus when it helps, not because it demands attention.
You start FoQus manually by default. Optional reminders can later support moments you choose, such as after meetings, before focused work, or when switching between activities. FoQus should never claim to know that you are stressed simply from your behaviour.
Private by default where possible
FoQus is designed to keep personal data limited and to preserve guest and local use wherever those modes provide enough value.
Guest sessions
Guest sessions can remain temporary.
Local preferences
Local preferences can remain on the device where supported.
Accounts
A basic account should only be required where an account genuinely provides value. Creating an account should not automatically upload private session history or create a psychological profile.
FoQus learns preferences, not psychological labels.
It may remember preferred durations, modes, sounds, themes, or commonly skipped prompts, but should not infer anxiety, depression, ADHD, burnout, trauma, personality type, or emotional stability from ordinary product behaviour.
Use FoQus within its recreational boundaries.
- Not for safety-critical tasks: FoQus should not be used when active attention is required for physical safety.
- Visual sensitivity: Slow-moving visuals are paired with strong reduced-motion and accessibility controls; use those controls or leave the session if needed.
- Strictly recreational: FoQus does not provide clinical diagnosis, treatment, or therapeutic care.
Help us understand what makes a reset genuinely useful.
FoQus is currently being tested with early users. We are learning whether the attention object metaphor is immediately understandable, which reset modes are useful, where configuration becomes distracting, and whether the process helps people return with greater self direction.
