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FocusMe is the most powerful website and app blocker available. Unlike browser extensions that can be easily disabled, FocusMe blocks at the system level across all browsers.
Key features: - Enforced Mode — the strongest bypass protection of any website blocker - AI Productivity Coach — personalized daily/weekly reports with one-click plan recommendations - Enforced Screen Breaks — full-screen overlay with skip protection and minimum break times - Flexible Time Limits — set per-site daily budgets (e.g. 30 min of Reddit per day) - Launch Limits — restrict how many times per day you can open distracting apps - Pomodoro Timer — built-in work/break cycles with floating timer window - CLI Automation — start, stop, and list plans from the command line - Plan Library — community templates you can import with one click - Block YouTube Shorts & Facebook Reels without blocking the rest of the site - Pause Limits, Stop Delays, Random Character Challenges, Plan Hardening
Works on Windows 11/10/8/7, macOS, Linux, and Android. Browser extensions for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi.
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Sembly drafts proposals, project briefs, status reports, and other client documents from meeting content. The platform captures calls in 48 languages, extracts tasks, decisions, and risks, and syncs outputs to 50+ tools.
CLIENT DELIVERABLES
INSIGHTS & ANALYSIS
AI Insights: Identify themes, patterns, and personalized observations across your meeting history.
Collections: Group related meetings by client, project, or initiatives.
Multi-Meeting AI Chat: Query multiple meetings at once. Generate answers, reports, and documents on demand.
MEETING CAPTURE
Transcription: Record meetings with accurate, timestamped transcripts and speaker identification.
Meeting Notes & Summaries: Create precise meeting summaries that include key points and next steps.
Language Support: Transcribe and analyze meetings in 45+ languages, including mixed-language calls.
TASKS & KEY ITEMS
Tasks: Extract action items with owners, descriptions, and deadlines.
Key Items: Flag decisions, risks, issues, requirements, and notable events.
CONNECTED TOOLS
Native Integrations: Sync meeting notes, tasks, and transcriptions with Salesforce, HubSpot, Notion, Slack, Jira, and 50+ tools.
Zapier: Connect Sembly to additional apps through Zapier triggers for meeting notes, tasks, and transcriptions.
MCP: Connect Sembly to Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI assistants through Model Context Protocol.
WHY SEMBLY
Organizational Intelligence: Revenue risks, team bottlenecks, and patterns across meeting history
Revenue Enablement: Automated deliverables, faster deals, client retention, delivery outcomes
Enterprise Security: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA, data residency, flexible deployment options, retention policy control
Global Reach: 48 supported languages, 10,000+ teams, 2, 000,000 meetings processed and analyzed
FocusMe SemblySembly's answer:
Sembly is designed for professionals who run client relationships through meetings and need to create deliverables from those conversations.
The primary audience includes:
Sembly's answer:
Sembly AI was founded in early 2019 by executives who have successfully grown companies from small startups to large operating entities that were subsequently sold to bluechip companies. The founders have a combined 40 years of hands-on experience supporting large transformation efforts in Fortune 500 organizations.
Sembly's answer:
The primary technologies used for building our product are proprietary.
Sembly's answer:
Sembly's customers include MIGSO-PCUBED, one of the world's largest project management consulting firms, along with PMI, Dr.Reddy’s, and Payroc.
More broadly, Sembly serves:
10,000+ professional teams worldwide use Sembly to run client engagements.
Sembly's answer:
While Most AI meeting tools stop at note-taking, Sembly automates the entire post-meeting workflow.
1. Meetings that turn into deliverables Sembly produces proposals, project briefs, status reports, gap analyses, board summaries, and investment memos. Professional teams receive complete client-ready documents after every call.
2. Heavy focus on Professional Services Sembly is built specifically for consultancies, agencies, IT outsourcing firms, PMOs, and venture funds whose work centers on client meetings and deliverables.
3. Intelligence across the entire meeting history Sembly's Multi-Meeting AI Chat works across your full meeting history, surfacing patterns, recurring themes, and observations that no single meeting reveals.
4. Connection with existing stack Sembly connects to Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI assistants through the Model Context Protocol.
Sembly's answer:
1. Sembly vs. meeting AI Most meeting solutions transcribe meetings and extract action items. Sembly does that and produces the proposals, project briefs, and status reports that teams write after every client call.
2. Sembly vs manual document creation Most Professional Services teams still write proposals, briefs, and reports manually. Sembly can generate professional documents from the meeting content within minutes, saving time and effort.
3. Sembly vs AI assistants Teams that paste transcripts into ChatGPT do it manually, one meeting at a time. Sembly integrates directly with meeting platforms, captures every call, and generates notes, tasks, and deliverables. For teams that want both, Sembly connects to Claude and ChatGPT through the Model Context Protocol.
4. Sembly vs proposal software Proposal tools help teams format and send documents. However, they still require someone to write the content. Sembly generates the proposal content directly from the discovery call, so teams review and send rather than write the first draft themselves.
I have been using FocusMe software on all my PCs and phones for over six years. I have a paid license. I would really like to commend the developers of FocusMe. As someone who spends more than 8 hours a day at a computer, it is easy to let it take over your life, even to the point where I found myself watching, chatting and posting even when I didn't particularly want to. I wanted to take control, and FocusMe was a really good solution. FocusMe differed from other products because it handled the entire scope of the problem: 1) lock out stuff from my kids, 2) lock out some of the same stuff from me, 3) not interfere with special internet use (like GitHub, or work related youtube), and 4) to give a whole range of solutions for partial lockout, by time, location, overall usage, multiple password schemes, etc. They do a really good job protecting the software from anyone who might trying to hack around it. There really isn't anything like it.
Wow! Where should I start? I've been constantly searching in these two years for finding a complete solution that could really help me manage my digital distractions and focus on my daily life routines, most applications are either not effective enough, so easy to circumvent or very resource-intensive, then I found FocusMe!
1) It has everything I was searching for, most applications are not effective enough, some are just browser extensions, have a few options and not customizable enough, with FocusMe I can easily create very flexible plans to:
a) Destroy bad habits and create good ones. For example block Internet at a certain time of night to help me sleep at a certain time each night. This has helped my insomnia a lot and my sleep times are getting regulated now.
b) Block unnecessary and possible harmful contents completely. For example, it may be a personal choice but I choose to block online adult contents for most weekdays, which has helped my brain to regulate my dopamine system tremendously.
c) Time limit other contents during work days, Contents that are useful but can also easily waste a lot of your daily time if not careful enough, like emails, news, social media...
2) Most other applications can be circumvented easily, if you have a little computer knowledge, most of these applications are useless, but FocueMe! OMG! It goes to great lengths to make sure you stick to your plan, when you create and start a plan, you can't cheat it! You can even create punishment if you try to bypass your plan, to restrict your access more which can prevent any kind of future cheatings. It is evident that FocusMe creators really love what they do and really pay attention to details, which is what distinguishes this from most other similar applications.
3) Some other applications are very resource-intensive, you can see in windows task manager that they swallow all of your computer resources or even slow down your web surfing/loading experiences which makes them useless, because no one wants to have a slower computer just to have an application to control his/her daily habits, but when I use FocusMe, there are no computer/web surfing slow downs and also the resource consumption is minimal which also makes this software a great choice.
4) Last but not least, FocusMe has a superb support system, you never feel alone on your path to more success and focus, they are always there for you answering your questions and always updating the software to newer greater versions.
Let me emphasize this point: I don't know how I could live without this application and I wished I had found it sooner! Those that are searching for applications to help them live a healthier life know what I mean if they read my explanations above. It took me two years to find you, FocusMe! I would give you 10 stars if I could!
After all these years, I finally feel in control of my life and my time, Thank you.
It just all works properly unlike other softwares. I am very happy because if I have minor troubles, customer support is there the same day to help me fix it. A lot of good locking systems that so far I haven't been able to cheat.
Based on our record, FocusMe seems to be a lot more popular than Sembly. While we know about 11 links to FocusMe, we've tracked only 1 mention of Sembly. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I would probably be homeless if it wasn't for FocusMe. I use it to block all sites except sites I need for work. Source: over 3 years ago
It's called FocusMe (https://focusme.com/). I came across some years ago when it was still a simple little app. You had to manually set it to block a site and enter in a time period. I had my daily working schedule that I use now set up and I wanted FocusMe to run on a schedule as well. He freaked out when I told him how I would use his app: killing the app via DOS at the end of a time period, renaming the... Source: over 3 years ago
How about Forest - https://www.forestapp.cc/ or FocusMe - https://focusme.com/. Source: almost 4 years ago
I agree with the other answers that it is not your responsibility. For people that would like an efficient blocker for themselves, I used FocusMe during my time at ETH which works well. Source: almost 4 years ago
I don't know of any specific app that does what you want but you can mix it up across platforms. I track all my writing time with Toggl Track's free plan and I use Google Sheets for word count. If you're looking for distraction blockers I'd recommend Forest for your web browser if you want something free, but if you're willing to pay for something more powerful I recommend Freedom or the even more restrictive... Source: about 4 years ago
Both Sembly and Fireflies look to be really great options for our organization and seem like they would be great for sending meeting summaries and capturing notes for our delivery teams after calls. Source: over 3 years ago
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