Slotty Time is a tool for deep work. Build your own routines with focus blocks and breaks that fit how you work — and let Slotty keep you on track, one slot at a time.
Cal Newport's Deep Work makes the case: long uninterrupted blocks beat
fragmented hours, breaks beat grinding, and four hours of real focus beats
eight hours of "being at your desk."
Slotty Time just makes it easy to do what
the research says — without the productivity-bro vibes.
Save sequences of timed steps — a morning startup, a wrap-up, a weekly review — and start them in one click.
Need a one-off focus block? Type a number of minutes, hit start. No saving, no setup, no ceremony.
The current step counts down right in the menu bar. When it goes over, the digits turn tomato red.
Pin a routine to specific days of the week. Today's lineup shows up first; the rest tucks itself away.
When a step runs over, extend by 10%, 25%, 50% — or your own presets. Whole minutes, rounded nicely.
Get a macOS notification when time is over, so you can decide what happens next.
Timeboxing is the disarmingly simple practice of giving a task a fixed amount of time — and then stopping when the time is up. It sounds almost silly written down, but the trick is in the constraint: when "as long as it takes" becomes "exactly 25 minutes", the task tends to start sooner and finish more often.
Slotty doesn't invent the technique; it just gives it a friendly home on your Mac. Each timebox in Slotty is a slot — a small, named container of minutes — and a routine is a tidy stack of slots you can run end-to-end. Think morning startup, mid-day reset, end-of-week review.
The reason timeboxing works isn't willpower; it's reduced friction. You don't have to decide what to do next, and you don't have to guess how long it should take. Slotty handles both, leaving you with the simpler question: am I doing the thing right now?
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Slotty runs entirely from your menu bar — no full app window taking up screen real estate, no browser tab to lose. You'll see a live countdown in the top bar while a routine is running, and the dropdown shows your current step and what's coming next. Click in to skip ahead, end the routine, or start a Quick Slot. That's it.
Slotty doesn't auto-advance — it waits for you. When a step ends, the countdown turns red and starts counting up so you can see exactly how far over you've gone. A panel pops up with your options: continue to the next step, skip it, end the routine, or extend the current step by a preset amount (10%, 25%, or 50% by default, or whatever you configure). If you're in flow, you stay in flow. If you're done, one click and you're moving on.
Yes — Quick Slot is one click from the menu bar. Type the minutes you want, hit start, and you're focused. No routine to build, no steps to configure. When the timer ends, you get the same overrun-and-decide flow as a saved routine, so you can extend if you need more time. Quick Slot is for when you want structure for the next 30 minutes, not the next 3 hours.