Distractions feel random — but they almost never are. Tap what pulls you off task and watch the real culprit show up.
Tap the one that fits. That's it — you're already logging the pattern.
Every tap adds up. The longer you log, the clearer the picture.
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Get Atomic Pro →When you're yanked off task for the fifth time before lunch, it's easy to blame yourself. "No discipline," "bad at focus," "just lazy." But distractions almost never strike at random — they cluster around the same triggers: a buzzing phone, a half-formed thought you're afraid to lose, a sudden urge to check one specific thing.
The problem isn't willpower. It's that you've never seen the pattern. This free Distraction Log fixes that. Each time something pulls you away, tap the category. Within a few days the biggest thief of your attention shows up in plain numbers — and once you can see it, you can remove it.
Keep the page open in a tab during focus time. The moment you notice you've drifted, tap the category that grabbed you — don't analyse, just capture. Add a short note if the specific trigger matters ("Slack from Priya"). Run a focus session to count every pull during a single block. Review the breakdown at the end of the day and ask one question: what's the easiest source to remove tomorrow?
Logging is only half the win. The real payoff is the change you make because of it: silencing one app's notifications, keeping a notepad for random thoughts, or breaking a scary task into a smaller first step. If you found this useful, you might also like the Visual Timer for seeing time shrink, or the Body Double Timer for getting started with quiet company.
Because you can't fix what you can't see. Most people blame their willpower, but distractions almost always follow a pattern — same triggers, same time of day. Logging them for a few days shows you exactly what's pulling your attention, so you can remove the source instead of white-knuckling through it.
It takes one tap. The whole point is speed — tap the category that just hit you, keep going. You're already distracted for a second anyway, so spending one tap to capture it costs almost nothing and pays back the next time you design your environment around the pattern.
Yes. Everything stays in your browser's local storage on this device. Nothing is uploaded, nothing leaves your machine, and there's no account to sign up for. Clearing your browser data clears your log.