The focus tools pros use — made simple.

15 minutes a day. Sharper thinking within two weeks.

Before we begin

Karter is free to use.

You should feel the first session. Give it two weeks and the progress becomes visible.

No paywall before practice.

Start the daily ritual without a subscription screen.

15 minutes a day.

Breath, reflection, then a simple attention drill.

Takes about 1 minute to set up

Step 1 of 7

What motivates you to improve your focus?

Pick the one that rings truest.

Step 2 of 7

What's the longest you can concentrate on one thing?

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A quick check-in

What's been affecting your focus lately?

Five short questions about the last two weeks. There are no wrong answers — we use them to tune your practice to where you are right now.

Step 3 of 7

How often have you felt sharp and ready to lock in on demanding work?

Over the last two weeks.

Step 4 of 7

How often has your attention broken on things that used to hold it — reading, work, a conversation?

Over the last two weeks.

Step 5 of 7

How often does mental overwhelm break your focus during the day?

Too many open tabs in your head. Over the last two weeks.

Step 6 of 7

How often have tasks failed to pull you in — you just couldn't get into them?

Even things you normally care about. Over the last two weeks.

Step 7 of 7

How often has a heavy or low mood made it hard to engage with work you care about?

Over the last two weeks.

Your starting point

Here's where your practice will lift you the most.

adjust Focus
Moderate
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Daily attention drills will grow your focus span over time.

bolt Energy
Moderate
50

Breath work and reflection steadily raise baseline energy.

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Moderate
50

Reflection and slow breath regulate the daily load.

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You're in good hands

All of this is trainable.

Focus, energy, and calm respond to short daily practice. Most people notice a real shift within two weeks.

15 min per day
2 weeks to notice

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Today's session

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Today's session

5 min breath, 5 min reflection on today's theme, 5 min anchored focus.

Today's theme

Achievement

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Pomodoro

25 min focus · 5 min rest

Daily practice

Today's session

15 min · sharper focus, calmer mind

Today's theme

Achievement

Settle the noise

Breath
5 minutes

Your breath slows on its own. The room gets quieter. One count, then the next.

How it works

Breathing slowly while counting gives a busy mind one simple point to return to. Every time you notice you've lost it and come back — that's the exercise working.

What it improves

  • Calm under pressure
  • Ability to hold attention on one thing
  • Recovery time when focus breaks

How to practice

Sit upright — chair or floor. Close your eyes or rest your gaze softly downward. The globe leads your breath: expand → breathe in. Shrink → breathe out. Each time it shrinks, add one silent count. If you lose the count or your mind wanders, tap I drifted and carry on from wherever you are. The count is just something to hold — losing it and returning is the practice.

Hear yourself think

Reflect
5 minutes

One question sits with you. No rush to solve it. What's honest rises on its own.

How it works

Holding one question without trying to resolve it lets the quieter layers of thought surface — the ones the busy mind usually talks over. The discipline is in not solving.

What it improves

  • Self-knowledge and honest self-observation
  • Comfort sitting with open questions
  • Strategic clarity on what actually matters

How to practice

Today's theme appears at the top of the screen. A short prompt sets the angle. Close your eyes or rest your gaze softly. Let the question sit. When the mind wanders — and it will — return to the prompt without judgment. No typing, no notes, no performance.

Hold your ground

Anchor
5 minutes

A steady pulse. The urge to react comes and goes. You stay where you are.

How it works

A sustained-attention drill (adapted from the SART paradigm used in focus research). Most pulses are the same — and doing nothing is the correct response. A few are irregular — brighter and sharper — and those are the ones to tap. Misses expose drift; false alarms expose impulse.

What it improves

  • Sustained attention and vigilance
  • Inhibitory control — not acting
  • Early awareness of when focus slips

How to practice

Watch the pulsing dot. Regular pulses → do nothing. Irregular pulses (brighter, sharper) → tap once. You'll see misses and false alarms after the session. Both are useful data — they're how you learn where your attention actually breaks.

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Get ready…
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Follow the globe. Each exhale — add one count.

Lost the count? Tap and start from 0 — that's the practice.

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Part 1 complete

Breath done. Reflection is next — 5 minutes, silent.

Total exhales counted — optional.

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Duration5:00
Drifts0
Exhales counted0
GradeGood
5:00 remaining

Today's theme

Achievement

Think of the biggest thing you've actually pulled off — not luck, something you made happen. What specific quality in you made it real? How often do you actually use that quality day to day?

5:00 silent

Eyes soft or closed. No counting. When the mind wanders, return to the question.

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Part 2 complete

Reflection done. One more — 5 minutes with a single anchor.

How focused was that?

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Reflection5:00
Theme

Part 3 · Anchor

Two kinds of pulses

Most pulses are steady. A few are sharper, brighter, larger — those are the ones to tap.

Regular

Let it pass

Irregular

Tap once

Misses are normal — noticing them is the practice. Five minutes, eyes on the dot.

5:00 remaining

Tap only on irregular pulses

0 / 0 caught · 0 false

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Session complete

Fifteen minutes. Every drift you noticed was a rep.

Breath5:00
Reflection5:00
Anchor5:00
Targets caught0 / 0
Drifts (missed)0
False taps0
Time to first drift
Theme

Working memory

N-Back Training

5 min · 20 rounds · 1-back

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Watch the grid. A square lights up each round. Decide if it's in the same position as the one shown right before it. Tap Same or Different.

Session

Difficulty1-Back
Rounds20
Pace~2.5s per round
Round 1 / 20
Observe the first square Correct: 0

Remember this position.

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Session complete

Working memory, trained.

Rounds19
Correct0
Accuracy0%
GradeGood

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Short break 5 min
Long break 15 min

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