Name one intention
Focus gets easier when you tell your coach one thing you want to finish, then give it a length of time.
The first step in Oithere is almost too small. You write one intention. You choose how long you would like to stay with it.
That sentence does more than start a timer. It gives your coach something true to hold you to.
Said out loud, it counts
A goal you keep in your head is easy to renegotiate. A goal you tell someone is harder to drop quietly. That is most of what a coach does: remember what you said, and remind you when it matters.
Every nudge Oithere gives comes back to that sentence. Not a rule it invented, not a productivity score. The thing you said you would do.
One thing, not a stack
A list of ten goals is a plan. It is not a focus session. Oithere asks for a single line because attention is single-threaded, even when your calendar is not.
If you need to ship a draft, say that. If you need to close the books for the week, say that. Leave the rest of the list for later.
A length of time
An open-ended promise is easy to abandon. A forty-five-minute window is a place you can actually inhabit. When the session ends, you can choose again.
The length is yours. The point is that it is finite, and that you named it on purpose.
Then work as usual
After you name the intention, Oithere gets out of the way. You are not locked in a single window. You can move through the apps the work requires.
Your coach only speaks up if your attention has drifted for a while, and then only once. The goal is not to punish a glance. It is to help you notice that the glance became a departure.