Pause.do

Pause.do places a small interruption at the exact points where people tend to drift: endless scrolling, long unbroken sessions, tab overload, and the moment right before you prompt an AI. It's not a pop-up nag. It's a beat of silence you get to fill however you want. The design assumption is that a second of awareness does more than a hard block.

Think First targets a habit that's easy to miss: opening ChatGPT or a similar tool before you've worked out what you actually want to ask. The pause nudges you to form the question first. Users report their prompts improved because they stopped outsourcing the thinking to the model. If you use AI chat daily, this is the feature most likely to change how you work.

The Attention Map turns ordinary browsing into something you can look at. It shows where your focus shifted, where drift began, and how your patterns changed over time. Nothing here is a score or a grade. It's a mirror. Whatever you decide to do next stays your call. Over a week, the focus tracking picture gets clearer than any gut feeling. Is that not the point?

Tab Freeze tackles tab overload without making you close anything. Background tabs freeze, which cuts the memory and CPU they're eating, and your laptop stops sounding like it's about to take off. The tabs stay where they were, so you don't lose your place. It's the kind of fix you notice most when it's working quietly in the background.

The tab clear log keeps a running record of how many tabs you've closed and when. One user checked it after a week and found they'd closed 340 tabs without registering any of it. That number says more about a busy week than a time tracker does. It's a small feature, but it makes an invisible habit visible, and seeing a habit clearly is usually the first step toward changing it for good.

Pause.do sells as a single £6.99 purchase that you keep forever. You get all five pause types, Think First, the full Attention Map, and future updates included. There's no subscription and no upsell path. Plenty of productivity tools charge you every month for less. For something you might use every day for years, that pricing is refreshingly simple.

The extension doesn't block sites, doesn't gamify your behavior, and doesn't shame you when you slip. There are no streaks to break and no productivity theater to perform. The stance is that most focus tools try to control you, and Pause.do just gives you a second to control yourself. Whether that works depends on you, but it's an honest design choice.