Twist Reviews

Focus Reviews

Twist mentions (22)

• Shopify is acquiring the Threads team

  If you are looking for an alternative that’s even more async than Threads, check out https://twist.com/ We (Doist) have been developing it since 2015. - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago

• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  Twist.com — An asynchronous-friendly team communication app where conversations stay organized and on-topic. Free and Unlimited plans are available. Discounts are provided for eligible teams. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Atlassian to buy Loom for nearly $1B

  Doist Inc. With Twist (https://twist.com). A sane replacement for slack that focus on making your life easier, and get actual job done by levering the concept of "threads" s first-class citizen that bridge the gap between instant chat where direct communication is needed and task manager where you need to declare a discussion to be open or closed. They side with the "Deep Work" philoshopy, and encourage (written)... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• I don't want this to happen to my own startup. What do you recommend?

  I Use a system like Twist for internal communication that encourages thoughtful responses, allows you to search through it later to get to how decisions were arrived at, and doesn't distract you all day like slack does. Source: 12 months ago

• Tips on avoiding distraction from a busy Slack help channel

  This may not be tenable depending on the size of your company, but back when my company was small we dumped Slack for Twist and I will literally never look back. I'll let you read Twist's website for their philosophy on workplace communication, but the main points relevant to you are:. Source: about 1 year ago

Focus mentions (24)

• App to prevent distractions at work

  I've been having success with the HeyFocus app, version 1.x, which is available on Setapp. Source: 6 months ago

• Looking for the right app

  Apps I have tried and are not enough: - https://heyfocus.com/ - https://freedom.to/ - https://selfcontrolapp.com/ - https://www.forestapp.cc/ - https://www.rescuetime.com/. Source: 7 months ago

• Cognitive Load and Your Development Environment

  There are plenty of apps and organizational systems that will help you remember future tasks and reduce distractions. For example, Focus blocks distractions and schedules your breaks and Freedom will block distractions on all of your devices at once. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago

• A collection of useful Mac Apps

  Focus - Price: $19.99/year App for Mac that blocks distracting websites and apps to help you stay focused. Source: 11 months ago

• Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds say

  Just https://heyfocus.com which I must have installed through Setapp, as I don't remember paying for it. It has a scripting capability so in theory I might be able to do something to prevent it from triggering when I'm active in a form. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago