HOLD X

Thanks, @percival1 for hunting! Hey, PH-community! My co-founder and I created HOLD to help us focus while at University. It was dead simple: Get real-world rewards and discounts for not using your phone. Now, 4 years later, we’ve helped more than 650,000 students to focus and achieve their academic goals. Now that we’re ‘knowledge workers’ (read: adults), simply blocking distractions on the phone doesn’t cut it. Work happens primarily on the computer. Unfortunately, this also where multitasking heaven (read: hell) and attention hijacking rabbit holes exist (read: Reddit, YouTube you know the drill). We’re losing 40% of our productive time on multitasking and up to 2 hours a workday is sacrificed to distractions. We’ve had countless days where we felt we’re working hard but weren’t achieving our top priorities. It left us feeling deflated and unfulfilled. That’s why we’re creating HOLD X, a ‘personal productivity trainer’ that will motivate you to plan your day, execute with ninja-focus, and provide actionable insights to increase your productivity. We believe the ability to use our time deliberately and give our full focus and attention is key for productivity and wellbeing. Unfortunately, big(evil) tech companies are working overtime to achieve the opposite. Our goal is to empower people to focus on and achieve their goals. Effortlessly. We hope you'll give HOLD a try and let us know what you think! PS: The tool is free to use for now but sometime in the future, we’ll introduce a subscription pricing model.

Let’s face it, constant context switching is killing your productivity. This problem has only increased as of late with so much remote work and of course the endless video meetings. So.many.video.meetings. This is why I really like what the HOLD team has built here. I’ve been testing their new Chrome extension this week and it has been a huge help keeping me focused on the most important tasks of the day. I’m curious how the PH community has been staying productive during these challenging times? Let me know in the comments or, if you give HOLD X a try I’m sure the makers would appreciate your feedback as well.

@maths_mathisen such a great idea to use the same technology that normally distracts people, to actually help them focus. Really like this.