FocusTube isn't a settings page — it's a loop. Install once, and the daily cycle takes over: intend, protect, close, review.
Load the unpacked extension from source, pin it, and walk through the iOS-style setup assistant. Pick Mika or Haru — or neither — set your name, and choose which protections to arm first. The whole thing takes under a minute.
The next time you open a video, FocusTube asks what you're here for and for how long. This one prompt — an implementation intention — is what turns passive watching into a decision. Your Intent Match rate starts counting.
Shorts disappear. Ads skip themselves. Autoplay stops asking. Keywords, channels and whole sites go dark on schedule. When a limit hits, a calm interstitial with a graduated unblock ladder keeps the decision deliberate.
Deflect, focus, save. The three rings fill as your day's protection pays off, celebrate when all three close, and bank streak freezes for the weeks you show up. Goals adapt to your 4-week trend — you approve every change.
Tomorrow morning, your briefing shows yesterday: score, rings, trend, where time went. Monthly review badges your weeks. Then you choose today on purpose — that's the whole loop.
Each pass takes a day. The briefing connects them into weeks, the Monthly Review into months — attention becomes a practice, not a battle.
Intend
Watch Intent asks once — purpose + minutes.
Protect
Layers remove the machinery of drift.
Close
Rings fill; the day celebrates 3/3.
Review
Tomorrow's briefing reads today back to you.
Install from source in five minutes, close your first ring tonight, and read yesterday over coffee tomorrow.