I find Centered to be an incredibly useful tool for getting into flow. It's dastardly good at catching me when I go off task and gently nudges me back to what I was doing. It's like having one of those cartoony angels sitting on my shoulder and smacking me (lovingly) on the side of my head every time I get distracted by a DM or want to "check Twitter real quick". Strongly recommended!

Centered is my favorite productivity hack, so much so that I gifted it to our entire team! It's a total game changer, especially when everyone is working from home where there could be a million distractions all the time. Centered keeps me sane and productive. You should try it out if you haven't.

First, I’d like to thank @chrismessina and thank him for hunting us. I’m excited the day has come when we’re on Product Hunt! I founded Centered because the world has gotten so full of distractions and intrusive notifications and I wanted to create a tool to help me focus and get through my work more quickly and healthier. My team and I built Centered as a Flow State app with: ✅ Simple and Elegant Task Management ✅ Beautiful Flow Music ✅ Virtual Coaching to keep you on track ✅ Notification Blocking and Do-Not-Disturb mode (mac only) ✅ Analytics so you can improve You run Centered on your laptop or desktop whenever you are working and it creates a beautiful bubble of focus around you. Our early users are finishing their tasks 30% faster than they estimate, and I’d love to hear from you about your experience. To get started, just download the desktop app and sign up for a free month of Premium using the Promo Code ➡️HUNT⬅️. See you in Flow!

The first time I ran Centered, it immediately clicked for me. The psychological nudges, the sense of community, the music... everything. For me, it combines all of the positive social pressures of working physically at an office, with none of the distractions. When they asked me to come work at the team at Centered, I was delighted! The product continues to grow so much, and we have so much planned on our roadmap that is going to make Centered the goto app for knowledge worker productivity. See you all in Flow! 💚

I've been actively using Centered for the past few weeks and can confirm it has certainly streamlined my productivity. I'm glad that through this product I've found a community of people who are looking for a space to get stuff done! By getting into my flow state, through guided advice, music, and timers, the application allows me to actually focus on tasks that I've been putting off for weeks and get them done efficiently. The recent feed feature lets me see what my friends are working on and receive validation from my friends on my completed tasks. Looking forward to see what Centered builds next and where they go in the future!

Believe it or not, Centered kind of helped me get out of a procrastination rut! I love it already and will definitely get premium. Would love to see it integrate with ClickUp/Notion in the future so I don't have to manually add tasks

I've been using Centered for more than a week now and it did *wonders* for my focus in endlessly distracted world, I highly, highly recommend it!

Before Centered, I tried toggl, manual time tracking, using my fitbit timer and so many others to help me stay on track and get work done within a set amount of time. I've been using Centered for a month and love the process working with it. It's been an integral part of my deep work sessions. The lists of todos are so easy to set up, delete and if need be, make a task recurring. That's it. No crazy extensive features, just the essential in a seamless experience with a pretty dashboard. The flow sessions are simple, I choose what I'll do and estimate the time it'll take and start. If I need more time, I add it. If I'm over time, I'll get a verbal reminder from a nice voice. There are also reminders to take breaks and getting ready for the next session. I love how it has exactly everything I need, without additional noise or a focus on trying to do more work just for the sake of. Being more effective is definitely a side effect however. There are additional time tracking stats that you can access and if you're into social accountability, you can see who is flowing at the same time as you! In all, thank you to the Centered team for making this and looking forward to what you'll do next :D

Huge upvote for Centered! I've been using it for a few weeks and it does wonders for my constantly distracted life.. I highly recommend it.. OK, gotta go now, Noah is yelling at me again! 😃

Woo! Finally on Product Hunt! Keep killin it you guys! <3

Centered is an indispensable tool for keeping you focused. Especially for people with ADHD, like me :) Big thanks to the Centered team!

I've been using Centered for about a month. My productivity has been increased and I work faster! I write my daily tasks, I choose a piece of music and I'm ready. No distractions or unnecessary thoughts. 100% recommended.

Congrats on the launch! Can't wait to try out the Linear integration.

I just registered. But I will comment BEFORE using it. I would like to share some thoughts I always have regarding productivity tools in general. Basically: I love them. The problem is that the space is too crowded and I am generally afraid of them becoming a (one more) procrastination factor. Would I try this if I had not seen the @chrismessina amazing comment? Maybe not. I am working with Todoist + Session and in general it works pretty fine for me. But I guess I love to procrastinate trying new stuff :) See you later!

I love this concept, can't wait to try it out!

When I need to get something done, I’m using Centered! I’ve tried hundreds of “productivity apps” but few have actually impacted my true ability to get things done like getting into the flow state with Centered. From the focus inducing music, to friendly nudges and distraction blocking, it’s my favorite work companion. Also this team ships fast! The beta community is engaged with constructive feedback and it shows up in the weekly product updates. Keep it up @ulf_schekendiek and team! 🚀

I've had the opportunity to experience Centered 3 times. Indeed it increased my focus and productivity in a relaxing manner. I've also recommended it to others!

I've honestly tried practically everything in existence to streamline my focus, attention, productivity and mental acuity to squeeze as much productivity as humanly possible into every moment I was working. With my background in freelance UIUX, I was used to having at least 5 to 6 projects/clients I was working on at a time. When I originally found out about monotasking and pomodoro technique, binaural beats and the concept of Flow State, I went deep and came up with a pretty decent workflow for me that took many years of trial and error to refine. I was using diff techniques like breathing and meditation, dialing in my diet and exercise and my own mashup of diff apps, music, timers, specific noise cancelling headphones, the right work environment, the right office space etc etc... all the little things that I thought were key in helping me be ultra productive. A good friend of mine told me about Centered. (oddly enough Steven and I were connected in a past life when I was freelancing full time and I was excited to hear about what he was working on!) Everything clicked! It was like someone had taken all my 10+ tools, techniques and ideas and brought them into 1 place! I was getting into my projects faster and easier, I was staying focused and on task and when I did happen to stray from my focus, the Centered virtual coach (Noah) gently (and sort of relentlessly at the same time) nudged me to get back to it! He knew which apps I was using were on and off task and he oriented me while I was in my Flow State as to how much time I had spent and how much time I had left! This gave me a MASSIVE productivity lift! I was able to stay in the zone and laser focused, but I also wasn't lost in my deep work just spinning on my project for hours and hours on end (Feels productive, but actually isn't if there's no end!) I can absolutely confirm it's a total productivity game changer and am so excited that there are others out there that are obsessed with getting their work done in record time by being ultra productive and getting some of that extra time back to spend in their personal lives. (For me it's with my wife and kids enjoying the outdoors!) 🙏

Our life is filled with notifications, distractions, and interruptions. I have tried multiple productivity apps, to-do lists, and all the different hacks, none of them worked better than Centered. Centered helped me block out these noises and get things done! I have been using Centered for over a month now and my PRODUCTIVITY SKYROCKETED! I can't thank enough for the team for bringing my focus back. I hope you can focus again too!

I've been using Centered for a year now and I absolutely love it. The team has tirelessly iterated and arrived at what I believe to be the best version yet. Can't wait to get all my friends to use it :)