AI Focus Tool is a private priority-protection workspace that helps you choose the one priority that matters most right now, define exactly how you will know it is finished, and protect it from new ideas. When an idea appears, you capture it in seconds and answer three evidence questions. The idea either parks safely or earns one honest re-evaluation.

The Member Workspace costs $0. You open it with your email address, and it includes the complete focus loop: one priority with a finish line, the 60-Second Appeal, a private Idea Parking Lot, and voice input, synced across your devices. Focus Pro costs $49 per year and adds the AI Second Opinion, the Finish Line Coach, Weekly Focus Intelligence, unlimited history, and every Focus Add-on.

Your email opens a private workspace, so your priority, finish line, and parked ideas are saved and never lost, on every device you use. You write your priority first, then lock it in with your email, and your workspace opens with it waiting. There is no password and no credit card.

The 60-Second Appeal is three yes or no questions you answer when a new idea appears: Does this protect revenue or prevent a meaningful loss today? Is your current priority actually blocked? Will a real opportunity or deadline disappear if you wait until review? If every answer is no, the idea is parked. If any answer is yes, you re-evaluate once.

A finish line is the specific outcome that proves your priority is complete, such as "the proposal is proofread, exported as a PDF, and sent to the client." It is required because a vague priority invites endless work and easy switching. A clear finish line tells you exactly when you can stop and makes every interruption easier to judge.

New ideas go to your Idea Parking Lot, a separate place that never appears on your focus screen. There is no badge or counter, so parked ideas do not pull at your attention. You review them later, one card at a time, and choose Act on It, Keep Parked, or Discard.

One active priority removes the constant question of what to work on next. When a new idea appears, you compare it against one clearly defined commitment instead of a long list. Research on goal shielding found that committing to one focal goal makes competing goals less active in your mind and helps you reach the focal goal (Shah, Friedman, and Kruglanski, 2002). Everything else waits or brings enough evidence to earn the right to replace it.

Yes, it is research-informed. It combines published findings on specific goals, goal shielding, task switching, attention residue, plan making for unfinished goals, if-then plans, and interruption recovery into one workflow. The complete method, including the three appeal questions, has not been tested as a whole, so we do not call it scientifically proven. The research page at aifocustool.com/research.php lists every source with a link.

AI is used in small, specific places, as part of Focus Pro. The Finish Line Coach checks whether your finish line is clear and writes a sharper one when it is vague. The AI Second Opinion weighs a new idea during re-evaluation and review, and Weekly Focus Intelligence writes a short reading of your focus patterns. AI never decides for you, and the core loop works without it, with a built-in finish line check on every plan.

Yes, where speaking saves the most time: your priority, your finish line, a new idea, and the evidence when something changes. Tap the microphone, speak, then tap Stop, and your words appear in the field. In Chrome, Edge, and Safari the words appear as you speak. If the browser's own speech recognition is unavailable, or in browsers such as Firefox, AI Focus Tool turns a short recording into text instead. Recordings are never stored.

Yes. Your workspace is private to you. Your priority and ideas are stored securely on our servers so they can sync across your devices, and nobody else can see them unless you share a link yourself. We never sell your data, we do not use third party advertising trackers, and you can export or permanently delete your data at any time from your account page.

Yes. AI Focus Tool is a web app that works in any modern browser on phones, tablets, and computers. You can also add it to your home screen so it opens like an app, and it keeps working when your connection drops.

A to-do list collects everything and asks what you want to do, so every new idea lands next to your real work. AI Focus Tool keeps one priority with a finish line, sends new ideas to a separate Idea Parking Lot, and only lets an idea interrupt you after it passes three evidence questions.