# Now — Timeless Focus

> Now is the anti-timer focus extension for Google Chrome. It hides every clock and timestamp on the websites you work on, guides you into a session with a short breathing ritual, and afterwards shows how long you were truly present. All analysis runs locally on the user's device — the extension makes zero network requests.

## What it is
- A free Chrome extension (Manifest V3) in the focus / productivity / digital well-being space.
- Core premise: watching the clock creates time anxiety and pulls you out of deep work. Hiding it helps you reach flow. Now is "the anti-timer" — the opposite of a Pomodoro countdown or a time tracker.
- How it works: (1) a breathing ritual starts the session and the page's clocks vanish; (2) you work with only a small ambient dot, time hidden; (3) at the end a Session Map shows your Presence Quality and the "Deep Nows" you reached.

## Privacy
- Zero network requests. No keystrokes, page content, or browsing history are recorded or transmitted. Everything stays on the user's device in local browser storage.

## Plans
- Free forever: breathing ritual, time-hiding on any site, presence score, Session Map dashboard.
- Premium (coming soon): per-factor presence breakdown, cross-session patterns and trends, shareable Session Maps, longer breathing rituals. The first 100 founding waitlist members lock in 50% off for life.

## Pages
- [Home](https://nowmaps.app/): what Now is, how it works, plans, FAQ, founding-member waitlist.
- [The Anti-Timer Method](https://nowmaps.app/anti-timer-method.html): the focus method Now is built on — hide the clock, enter with a ritual, work until done.
- [Pomodoro Alternatives](https://nowmaps.app/pomodoro-alternatives.html): six honest alternatives for people the countdown backfires on — Flowtime, countdown-free timeboxing, body doubling, task-boundary breaks, ultradian rhythms, and the anti-timer method.
- [Hide YouTube timestamps](https://nowmaps.app/hide-timestamps-youtube.html): manual uBlock recipe + one-click session-based hiding for YouTube's duration and "ago" stamps.
- [Hide timestamps on X/Twitter](https://nowmaps.app/hide-timestamps-twitter-x.html): removing the "5h ago" recency stamps that fuel doomscrolling.
- [Hide post ages on Reddit](https://nowmaps.app/hide-timestamps-reddit.html): breaking the refresh loop that post-age stamps create.
- [Hide Slack timestamps](https://nowmaps.app/hide-timestamps-slack.html): removing reply-latency pressure during deep-work blocks (browser Slack).
- [Hide Discord timestamps](https://nowmaps.app/hide-timestamps-discord.html): keeping chat readable without the falling-behind meter (browser Discord).
- [Privacy Policy](https://nowmaps.app/privacy.html): full detail on the local-only data handling.

## Contact
- now@nowmaps.app