The Nook
One block of work, and nothing else on the screen
A focus workspace that runs your study session block by block, with a timer, your materials, and the sound you like.
- kinds of activity it can run
- 15kinds of activity it can run
- ambient sound, generated live
- Rain or wavesambient sound, generated live
- start to wrap-up
- One sessionstart to wrap-up
Cell transport review
Block 3 of 6
Transport vocabulary
Work through each card. Tap to flip and self-assess.
"Nine of the twelve cards are secure. The three that keep slipping are all active transport."
Skills targeted
Everything in it
Everything the Nook does
Most focus apps give you a timer and hope. This one runs the actual work, because it can see the session you planned.
The session
A session is a sequence of blocks with a clear end, not an open-ended timer.
Timer modes
Pomodoro with breaks, a straight countdown, or a stopwatch when you do not want a target.
Block by block
The Nook walks the session you built in Plan, one block at a time, with a transition between each.
A threshold to cross
Entering the Nook is a deliberate moment. That small ceremony is most of what makes focus stick.
A wrap-up at the end
Finish the session and get what you did, what moved, and what is left, before you close the laptop.
Skip honestly
A block you cannot face can be skipped. It stays in your plan rather than disappearing.
What it can actually run
Fifteen activity kinds, so a session is real work rather than a countdown you sit through.
Flashcards, quiz, and practice
A deck runs inside the session, with the same grading and the same mastery as everywhere else.
A lesson
A Learn lesson embedded in the block, checks included, progress saved.
Reading and worked examples
Material in front of you with a timer running, for the blocks that are not interactive.
Writing
A writing block with the prompt beside the page, for essays and short responses.
Conversation and Recite
Language practice and out-loud recall, inside the session, using speech.
A simulation
A Lab sim as a block, for the ideas that are better pulled apart than read about.
Note review
One of your notes in front of you, as a deliberate review block.
Video and free study
A watch block, and an unstructured block for the work Slate does not host.
Planning
A block for sorting out the week itself, because that is work too and it never gets a slot otherwise.
Breaks
Breaks are a block type, with their own screen. Rest is part of the plan rather than a failure.
The room
Ambient sound, generated live
Rain, waves, or a warm drone, generated in the browser rather than looped from a file. Set the volume, and choose whether it plays through breaks.
Quiet chrome
Everything not needed for this block is off screen. The timer is the loudest thing there.
Themes per session type
The workspace shifts with the kind of work, so a reading session and a drill do not feel identical.
Materials, without leaving
A side panel with the three things people alt-tab for.
Session
What this block is, what it targets, and what is left in the session.
Notes
Your relevant notes beside the work, readable without breaking the block.
AI
The Assistant, in the panel, with the context of the block you are in. This tab is a Pro feature.
One context
Press start on Tuesday, 6pm
The gap between "I should study" and studying is where most evenings are lost. This closes it.
- 01 · Plan
The session already exists
Six blocks, ninety minutes, built earlier in the week around the skills you are weakest at.
- 02 · Nook
You cross the threshold
The workspace opens, the sound comes up, and the first block is the only thing on the screen.
- 03 · Nook
The work runs here
Cards, a lesson, a note review. You are not opening other tabs, because the block loads itself.
- 04 · Everywhere
It all counted
The wrap-up shows the mastery you moved. Study, your streak, and Sunday’s review all already know.
The session comes from your week
The Nook does not ask you what to work on. It runs the session sitting in your planner, built from what is due and what your mastery says you are weakest at. Pressing start is the only decision left.
Monday, May 11
9 scheduledWhat it does not do yet
- It cannot block other apps
- There is no lockdown mode that takes over your device or blocks websites. The Nook makes the work easy to start. Your phone is still your responsibility.
- Three ambient sounds, not a library
- Rain, waves, and a warm drone. You cannot yet bring your own audio or connect a music service.
What the Nook runs
The Nook is where the plan becomes an evening that happened, which is only possible because it can read the plan.
Try one focus session
Build a session in Plan, press start, and see what ninety uninterrupted minutes looks like.