Ashdeck

Open the browser to work and the browser fights back: a wall of tabs, a notification, and a scroll that swallows twenty minutes. Ashdeck replaces the new-tab page with a focus dashboard, blocks the sites that derail you, and runs a timer so the work happens in sessions instead of in the gaps between distractions.

What Ashdeck actually does

It lives inside Chrome and turns the browser from the source of distraction into the place focus is enforced.

• Blocks distracting sites like social media and news, on a schedule if you want
• Runs a built-in Pomodoro-style timer for focused sessions and healthy breaks
• Replaces every new tab with a clean dashboard of your tasks and timer
• Tracks tasks and keeps your priorities visible
• Plays calming focus soundscapes to make concentration easier
• Works entirely inside your Chrome tab, with no separate app to switch to

The smart move is putting the dashboard on the new-tab page, because the new tab is the exact moment focus tends to leak. Intercepting it with your tasks and a running timer does more than a blocker you have to remember to switch on, since the intervention lands at the point of temptation rather than waiting for you to summon willpower. The opinion worth stating: Ashdeck overlaps with the task managers it name-checks, ClickUp, Notion, and Asana, but those are where work gets planned, not where focus gets enforced. This is the second job, and pairing it with a real project tool beats trying to make either one cover both.

Who it's built for

This fits people who do focused work in the browser and lose the day to tab-sprawl and context-switching, students, writers, and developers among them. It assumes you already know what you should be doing and struggle to actually do it, rather than needing a place to plan in the first place. If your problem is organizing the work, a planning tool comes first. If your problem is sitting down and starting, this is aimed squarely at that.

The deal

Tier 1 runs $73.5, down from $105, with unlimited website blocking, unlimited focus sessions and Pomodoro timers, scheduled blocking, unlimited tasks and lists with reminders, app integrations, and custom quotes and mantras. For a tool you keep open in front of you all day, the one-time price lands well under a year of most focus-app subscriptions. [Grab the Ashdeck deal on DealMirror](https://www.grabltd.com/recommends/ashdeck-dm/).