A fully local, open-source focus system that gives individuals the tools to do their best work — and gives teams an honest picture of where attention actually goes.
Not because people are lazy. Because there's no feedback loop between intention and action.
Managers track output, not the conditions that produce it. There's no way to know if your team had four hours of deep work or forty context switches.
Slack pings, email alerts, calendar reminders — the average knowledge worker is interrupted every 3 minutes. Real focus never has a chance to begin.
Opening 8 tabs while "working" looks like productivity. It isn't. Without tracking, this drift goes completely unnoticed until the deadline arrives.
Website blockers create resentment. Time trackers feel like surveillance. Neither addresses the actual moment distraction begins.
In-office presence created implicit focus pressure. Remote work removed that without replacing it with anything better. Drift fills that gap — privately.
Most productivity tools require accounts, cloud sync, and data sharing. IT won't approve them. Employees won't trust them. Drift sidesteps all of this.
* Industry research aggregated from Microsoft WorkLab, RescueTime, and UC Irvine studies
No onboarding. No training. No process change. Just install and start.
Opens a new tab, sees the Drift intention prompt. Types "implement auth flow — ticket #247". Presses Enter. Drift begins silently tracking the session.
Stack Overflow, GitHub, docs, Twitter. Drift detects the tab burst. A gentle overlay appears — not a block, just a mirror: "You meant to implement auth flow." Two options: keep going or refocus.
The Web Audio chime plays. Session closes. The river map renders — a canvas visualisation of every domain visited, time on each, colour-coded by site. The honest picture of the last 25 minutes.
Not to prove productivity — to model honest self-reflection. "Here's my session from yesterday. I got pulled into Slack for 40 minutes during what I thought was a deep work block." Culture shift starts here.
Opens app.html, adds tasks from today's design brief, starts a pomodoro. Drift bridges the intention to the extension — every new tab automatically shows the current task. No re-typing. No friction.
When everyone is doing three jobs, focus is the only competitive advantage. Drift helps small teams protect deep work time without adding process overhead.
Remote work removed office focus pressure without replacing it. Drift gives each team member a personal accountability loop that works entirely in their own browser.
Engineers already understand the value of flow state. Drift speaks their language — open source, no accounts, local-first, fully auditable. It fits naturally into existing sprint culture.
Most productivity tools are SaaS products that collect usage data on your employees. Drift takes the opposite position.
Everything lives in IndexedDB and localStorage on the employee's machine. IT never needs to approve it. Legal never needs to review it.
Every line of code is public on GitHub. Your security team can review exactly what the extension does before anyone installs it.
Apache 2.0 license. Build your own version. Add your company logo, change thresholds, integrate with internal tools. No vendor permission needed.
No per-seat pricing. No enterprise tier. No upsell. Deploy to 5 people or 500 — the cost is identical: zero.
Current integrations are intentional and lightweight. The roadmap goes further.
Copy your current Notion task title as your Drift intention. River map exports pair naturally with Notion session logs.
Works nowSet intention = ticket ID. Session history maps directly to sprint velocity. Export river maps into retro docs.
Works nowPost session summaries to a team channel. Auto-set Slack status to "In a focus session" when a pomodoro starts.
PlannedAggregate river maps across a team. Opt-in only. See collective focus patterns without individual surveillance.
RoadmapAuto-start a Drift session when a focus block begins on your calendar. End it when the next meeting starts.
PlannedLink sessions to commits. See which focus sessions produced which code. Closes the loop between attention and output.
RoadmapExport aggregated focus data as CSV. Feed into your own BI tools, Notion databases, or Google Sheets.
PlannedOpen source means you build what you need. The localStorage bridge is documented and simple to extend.
Works nowThis is a vision, not a promise. Built in public, on GitHub, with full transparency.
Pomodoro timer, todo list, drift detection, river map, ambient sounds, GIF backgrounds, full localStorage bridge
30-day IndexedDB history, re-render any past session, export as PNG or SVG for retrospectives
Service worker caching, installable on any OS, works fully without internet connection
Auto-set status to "In a focus session" when a pomodoro starts, clear it on break
Auto-start Drift when a focus block appears on Google Calendar or Outlook
Aggregate river maps across a team. Fully opt-in, no individual tracking, no surveillance — just collective focus patterns
Match focus sessions to commits. See which attention patterns produce the best code.
Free. Open source. No account. No data leaving anyone's device. Takes 60 seconds to install.