Chisel: Stoic Focus
Not claimedChisel is a focus timer that carves marble
By KENSON KAMUTU WATHIU · ProductivityWhy we expect it: The marble-carving focus metaphor is distinctive, and the description clearly explains how minutes become a visible, lasting reward.
About
Chisel is a focus timer that carves marble.
Every hour you spend on your work cuts stone away from a philosopher's bust. When the bust is finished it goes to stand in your Stoa, and it stays there, because you made it out of hours you will not get back.
HOW IT WORKS
Write down what is in your control. Choose twenty-five, fifty or ninety minutes. Take up the chisel. While the session runs, stone falls away from the block in front of you — and when it is done, the minutes are in the stone whether you finished the task or not.
The first statue takes an hour and a half. Every one after takes four.
PRACTICE AND DISCIPLINE
A practice session can be paused whenever you need to. A discipline session cannot: you stay until it ends, or you hold to yield. Nothing is lost either way. Quitting early keeps the minutes you carved.
THE GATE
Name the apps that take your attention and Chisel holds them shut while you carve. If you go in anyway it costs two minutes of marble — a real price, paid out of the statue, visible on the stone. There is no way to cheat it, because there is nothing to cheat.
Chisel Free guards one app. Chisel Pro guards all of them.
THE EVENING REVIEW
Seneca examined his day before sleep. Three questions, once a night, and a lamp lit for each one you answer. It asks what you cured, what you resisted, and where you are better. It does not score you.
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