Remove Focus Sessions from Clock App

Hi Ck. I'm Greg, 10 years awarded Windows MVP, here to help you.

I've not yet heard of Focus Session bothering anyone. But I do notice that for some reason I'm not signed into the Clock app even though I'm signed into Windows with my MS Account.

Perhaps if you sign out of that one app at the top of the settings it will back off. There shouldn't be any reason to sign into the Clock except to enable it to access your data for the Focus sessions which you do not want.

It bothers *me* anytime I open an app and it chooses to default to a setting I NEVER use just because the app's publisher is trying to push a new feature.

In this particular case, something meant to reduce distraction has become one.

I guess everybody wants irony, but nobody wants to pay for it.

Like CK, I'll be switching to a third-party app.

I too have now downloaded Hourglass.

I'm from the school of the Unix philosophy of make a tool do one job well.

I hate the amount of times Microsoft take a tool that does one thing well and then add perplexing additional features and try to then push them on the user to make them aware of them.

If they want a pomodoro like tool then make a pomodoro like tool and add it to the store.

Thanks for the hourglass suggestion.

Thing I like about Hourglass is that you dont have to enter "10 minutes", just 10m or 10s for seconds.

Thanks for the suggestion, I've recently started learning Python and this was a small project I thought could offer some good practice, but in the meantime Hourglass is exactly what you would want a simple timer to be. I like how you can mix numbers and words like "10 minutes" or "10:00" when entering the time - not particularly useful in practice, but shows that the creator put some love into it. Or that they too were learning to code lmao.

Note: Just words doesn't work, like "ten minutes".

You are right, it pops up on me periodically if I don't use it for a while. I can never decide if programmers are unable to do better or just unwilling to do better, and that includes their bosses too lol.

Different companies give their employees different amounts of freedom but 95% of the time when there's an obtrusive, obnoxious feature that makes you go "WHY!? JUST WHY!?" it's a higher-up pushing for it to be done a certain way. Coders have a problem-solving mindset, their job is essentially solving complex word problems in one of many alien languages with some math thrown in. They don't sit there *creating* them lol. Not intentionally, anyway, and this inconvenience is hard to miss. I open an app called "clock" and I get this focus sessions garbage? Yeah okay...