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No complicated settings, no endless menus.\n\nHere is how it works in real life:\n\n• Studying at your desk  \nPlace an NFC tag or QR code on your desk. When it is time to study, tap your phone on the tag or scan the code. Social media, games, and other distracting apps are blocked so you can focus on your notes, not your notifications.\n\n• Deep work at the office  \nStick a tag on your monitor or laptop. Before you start an important task, tap or scan. Messaging, email, and news apps are paused so you can stay in flow and actually finish that report.\n\n• Reading and writing  \nPut a tag on your bedside table, notebook, or favorite reading spot. Tap or scan to block the apps that break your concentration so you can read, journal, or write without reaching for your feed every few minutes.\n\n• Focus anywhere  \nAdd tags to places where you tend to lose time the kitchen, couch, or coffee table. One tap or scan turns your phone from a distraction machine into a simple tool for the task at hand.\n\nYou are always in control:\n\n• Pick exactly which apps to block for each tag or code  \n• Create different focus setups for work, study, or downtime  \n• Turn blocks on with a tap or scan, and off just as easily when you are done\n\nInstead of relying on willpower every time you pick up your phone, change your environment so focus becomes the default. Set up your tags or codes once, then use them whenever you sit down to concentrate.\n\nChoose your apps. Tap or scan. 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