Focus Settings
What you'll learn
Focus Zone Settings
During a Focus Zone, control whether a distracting website is blocked on the Focus Settings page.
- Alert me about upcoming Focus Zones: during a Focus Zone RescueTime will notify you via a Focus button (Mac only) in your menu bar, and a Focus Zone pinned alert in the Assistant. When this is disabled, you will not receive notifications about Focus Zones.
- Block websites during Focus Zones: when this is enabled RescueTime will block distracting websites (websites ranked as Personal/Distracting). When this is disabled, RescueTime will not block distractions automatically during Focus
Focus Session Settings
- Default Focus Session length: you can choose 15 minutes to 60 minutes as your default Focus Session length.
- This default length applies to any automatic Focus Sessions
- Default Focus Session blocking:
- No blocking: during a Focus Session no activities will be blocked
- Block distracting sites and apps: during a Focus Session Persona/Distracting activities will be blocked
- Block distracting + communication sites and apps: during a Focus Session Persona/Distracting Activities will be blocked as well as activities categorized as communication even if they are Focus Work or Other Work.
Site Blocking Settings
View apps and websites ranked as Personal/Distracting by clicking Preview your block list. During a Focus Session, these activities will be blocked.
Websites added to Blocking Exceptions will not be blocked during a Focus Session. For instance, you may want to block YouTube in general but don't want to block https://www.youtube.com/udemy. You would add the URL to Blocking Exceptions here.
You can choose to allow unblocking during Focus Sessions.
If you disable Allow website unblocking during Focus Sessions, when you visit a distracting app or website, you'll see the Focus Session block page with no option to dismiss it. 
Music Integration
Connect your Spotify Premium account to RescueTime to listen to music during a Focus Session.
