FocusMode.

The problem

Productivity apps force a trade-off: either they’re minimal and fall short, or they do everything and overwhelm you. And almost none adapt to you — the same rigid app to manage a roadmap, plan a launch or write a thesis.

The thesis

One app that molds to how you work. Where tasks, habits, focus (Pomodoro) and finances live together, native and with iOS 26 polish — and where the color, the projects and the pace are yours. One that serves a product team, a marketer or a grad student alike.

Roadmap Q3

Thesis — Degree

The solution

FocusMode is a native SwiftUI productivity suite for iPhone and iPad. A full hierarchy —area, project, section, task, subtask—, habits with analytics, a Pomodoro timer wired to Apple Music, finances with connected banking, a configurable theme, and all of it real-time on Supabase. And local-first: the interface answers before the network does.

Everything inside

The hierarchy: area → project → section → task

With twenty open projects, a flat list reads like twenty obligations. Areas sit one level above —a folder with a name, an icon and an order, nothing more— and sections are the “concrete project” inside a client. I deliberately avoided a self-FK on projects: arbitrary depth leaves unanswered what a container-project does with its tasks, its revenue target or its repo. Two levels by construction.

Sections had lived in the database from day one —table, model, fetch, even the field in the editor— with no screen to create them: a ghost level. Surfacing them exposed a latent bug: the foreign key was ON DELETE CASCADE, so the very first delete button would have taken the tasks inside with it, silently.

Projects 3

Priority

Alta

The day

Today brings together what’s overdue, what’s due and your routines, each task showing its project and estimated duration. The week navigator moves day by day without losing context, and routines —step lists with a time and a streak— cover what repeats the same way every morning.

Overdue 3

Estimated

45m

Focus: Pomodoro and chronometer

A dual timer —Pomodoro and free chronometer— as a TabView bottom accessory, with history and reports per project or habit. It plugs into Apple Music: a global playlist or one per habit, showing what’s actually playing. Each session stores its own project_id, so moving a task between projects no longer rewrites the past.

25:00

focus session

Short break

Time worked

Measurable habits

Habits with configurable frequency, icon, color, reminders and their own playlist. Premium analytics: heatmap, completion rate and weekly chart. Any habit can start a Pomodoro and keep its own accumulated time.

Last 4 weeks

Streak

Finances, inside the same app

Wallets, transactions, budgets, savings goals, recurring expenses, debts and a wishlist — so money is part of your focus too, not another separate tool. Connected banking (PSD2, via TrueLayer) imports transactions already categorized and syncs on its own when you return to the app: before, syncing only happened inside the Banks screen, so anyone who never opened it never saw a transaction arrive.

€2.560

saved

6 recurring

Time budget: warn, never block

The area sets the ceiling (“5h to Work today”) and each project reserves inside it (“of those 5h, 2h30 to Sardina”). Two levels on purpose: people don’t always plan at the same level, and with targets only on areas you’d end up creating one area per client just to assign hours — destroying the very level areas provide.

If the reservations exceed the ceiling, the editor says so and the area badge turns amber. Saving still works. There’s no CHECK constraint tying the two numbers together: coherence here is a product decision, not a data one.

A planner that argues with the person planning gets abandoned in three days.

Nota de diseño, agosto 2026

Local-first: the interface doesn’t wait for the network

Every mutation is instant: it mutates the local array, writes through to cache and enqueues the operation; the network syncs in the background. Behind it sits a durable per-user queue with coalescing, backoff and a dead-letter path, a network monitor and a temporary-id allocator — because a task created offline is born with a negative id that must later be reconciled across arrays, foreign keys and already-queued operations.

GitHub Issues, both ways

Under the same simple app sits a serious engine: your repos become projects and your issues, tasks. Sub-issues as subtasks and comments synced both ways. Backend-first architecture: database triggers enqueue the sync, edge functions process the queue, pg_net notifies instantly and Supabase Realtime pushes GitHub changes to the app with no polling.

Connected

Synced repos

acme/platform

Publications: one backend, two apps

Ideas are generated in ideas365 —the second app in the ecosystem— and FocusMode reads them: a Twitter thread, a LinkedIn version and an article, each channel with its own date and published state. They share the Supabase project and the table, so there’s no sync to maintain between them: it’s the same row seen from two apps.

Personalization

Eight accent colors, light and dark, a default currency and row density. It isn’t decoration: it’s what lets the same app work for a roadmap and for a thesis without either feeling borrowed.

The stack

SwiftUI with the @Observable macro (not ObservableObject), MVVM, models passed through the environment. Supabase backend: Auth (Apple Sign-In), PostgREST, edge functions, Realtime and Storage. StoreKit with backend receipt verification plus RevenueCat. Gemini for AI subtask generation. The same backend powers the iOS app, a second cross-platform app in React Native + Expo, the Next.js web and ideas365.

How it evolved

1. 2025
   First release on the App Store

   Tasks, projects and a subscription with backend-verified StoreKit.

2. Feb 2026
   Habits, Pomodoro and real hierarchy

   Nested subtasks with parent_id, priorities, pinning and habit analytics. The timer lands as a TabView accessory.

3. Feb 2026
   GitHub Issues sync

   Two-way and backend-first, with a database queue and Realtime into the app.

4. Jun 2026
   Local-first

   A durable offline action queue, temporary ids and anti-wipe merges. No schema changes.

5. Ago 2026
   Real finances and areas

   Connected banking with automatic sync, debts, budgets with manual allocation, areas, sections and time budgeting.

One app, three lives

These three captures come from the same build: what changes is the content and the accent, not the app. On the left, someone running a product —beta feedback, paywall specs, roadmap—. In the middle, someone studying: lab work, exams and chapter 2 of the thesis. On the right, the household: the electricity bill, the school run, a load of laundry. It’s the opening thesis, said with the interface itself instead of an adjective.

Prepare Q3 roadmap

Write chapter 2 of the thesis

Take the kids to school

Result

FocusMode is live on the App Store (iOS 26+) and is the main app in the focusmode.net ecosystem. What started as a task manager is now a tool where work, time and money are looked at in one place — and it keeps growing where it’s actually used, not where it was planned.

Screen by screen

The whole app, no surprises: the same rail that runs across the focusmode.net home.