Research sessions
Capture the sources you will cite, ignore the pages you merely glanced at, and end with a next step.
Tab overload workflow
A focus timer for people who open too many tabs.
Tab overload is not always laziness. Sometimes the work genuinely needs search results, docs, references, and examples. Focus Receipt helps you keep the useful trail without monitoring your whole browsing history.
The tab rabbit hole pattern
You start with one clear task, then open a search page, two docs, a forum thread, a competitor page, and a video. Twenty minutes later, the task is not done and the tab bar gives you no useful summary.
Focus Receipt does not try to decide which sites are good or bad. Instead, it asks you to capture only the pages that actually support the session goal. At the end, those pages become a local receipt.
Writing sessions
Keep the reference tabs tied to the draft instead of letting the browser become the task list.
Debugging sessions
Save the docs or issues that helped, then review what was actually useful after the timer ends.
How to use Focus Receipt for tab overload
- Speak or type one concrete output before starting the timer.
- Open the tabs you need, but capture only the pages that matter.
- Use the keyboard shortcut or page menu when the side panel cannot read the active page.
- Finish the session and review captured pages, top domain, unfinished items, and next-session fixes.