Earn your distractions.
You decide what counts as done. Until it is, the apps that eat your day keep sliding back to the taskbar.
It minimises. It never closes.
1/2 sessions · 34/100 cards
The window slides back to the taskbar.
Finish them and it opens like normal. Unlocked ✓
It is also a writing tool.
Every version kept, a board for your characters and your plot, and the words you write counting toward what unlocks.
Nothing you write is ever lost
Every version of every chapter is kept as you go. Go back to how a chapter read last Tuesday, and the rest of the book stays exactly where it is.
A rough one and a clean one, side by side
Two takes on the same chapter at once. Rewrite as hard as you like without losing the version that already worked.
A board, not a folder
Characters, objects and plot threads as cards you arrange yourself, joined the way the story joins them. Nothing rearranges them behind your back.
Words that count
New words count toward your goals. Polishing a paragraph that already counted does not pad the number, and deleting and retyping comes to nothing.
The parts a feature list cannot explain
The goals that unlock an app, the week that keeps itself, and the study material you read, mark up and keep.
You decide what counts as done
Cards reviewed in Anki. Focus sessions finished. Minutes actually spent on the page you were supposed to be reading. Pick one, or stack all three.
The rule stays locked until the last of them turns green — and the counts are read live, so the unlock happens on its own, seconds after you finish.
A week you can see
Eight cards and a page for notes, rendered from the design itself rather than redrawn — so the day names keep their own lettering. Write down what you finished; each day also lists the goals TaskFirst recorded on it.
On Monday the board starts fresh and the week that ended is archived, never deleted. Nothing is pruned at any age or any size: a lifetime of weekly notes is a few megabytes of text on your own disk.
Read it, mark it, keep it
Bring your PDFs and images in, sort them into modules, and mark them up with a pen and a highlighter that never touch the file underneath.
Start a blank notebook or add a page beside the one you are reading, pin the audio that goes with a chapter right next to it, and open anything with a single click.
ProThe rest of it
Block only when it matters
Nine to five, or only overnight. Outside those hours the rule steps aside on its own.
ProNo way to talk yourself out of it
Turning blocking off means retyping a phrase the app picks. No password to remember, no shortcut to find at 2am.
One tab, not the whole browser
Block youtube.com and leave your docs, your email and your work tabs exactly as they were.
Already running when you need it
Sits in the tray from the moment you log in, so the rule is in place before the temptation arrives.
Nothing leaves your machine
Your licence is checked on your own computer. No account to create, no sign-in, nothing reported anywhere.
As many rules as you need
One for games, one for social, one for the group chat that never stops. Free covers two.
$19. Once.
Free
- Minimize-not-kill blocking
- Pomodoro and Anki goals, free forever
- Floating timer
- 2 rules
Pro
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited rules
- Schedules
- Time-on-site goals
- Diary and writing
- Study space with markup and audio
- Priority support
Download, unzip, run.
Unzip it
Anywhere you'll keep it.
Run TaskFirst.exe
Approve the prompt. It lives in your tray from there.
Connect Anki
AnkiConnect, code 2055492159, if you want card counts to unlock things.
The direct download is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may complain. Choose More info → Run anyway.