Is Focusmate Down?
Written By The Aftertone Team
Check https://focusmate.com for live status. If Focusmate is not listed as having an active incident, the issue may be on your end -- try restarting the app or checking your internet connection.
What to do right now
1. Open Google Calendar directly. Your events sync there regardless of whether Focusmate is working.
2. Write your three priorities for the day. Open Notes or grab a piece of paper. Three things that have to happen today. Focusmate going down does not change what matters.
3. Check Focusmate's status. Check focusmate.com or their X account for live updates. Focusmate outages affect live body-doubling sessions.
4. Start on your first priority. The real cost of a planning tool outage is not the 20 minutes it is down -- it is the hour you lose waiting for it instead of working.
If this keeps happening
If this keeps happening, Aftertone's Focus Screen provides the single-task structure that makes Focusmate sessions effective -- without needing another person to be online.
Focusmate is body-doubling accountability. Aftertone is a full planning system -- tasks, time blocking, Focus Screen, and weekly reports. They solve different parts of the same problem.
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