LockinRa

What it does

A privacy-first, local-first AI workspace for deep work. Focus tracking, task capture, an accountability coach, and a personal AI brain — all running on your machine. Free for Windows 10/11 — on the Microsoft Store, with a Linux build in beta.

LockinRa is a local-first AI productivity app for Windows, powered by a local LLM (via Ollama). An AI focus guardian that blocks distracting websites and apps, task capture by voice or text, screen-time analytics, habit tracking, notes & whiteboard, and a private on-device AI coach — all running on your machine. Free on the Microsoft Store, with builds for macOS and Linux too.

A privacy-first AI workspace for deep work. Focus tracking, task capture, an accountability coach, and a personal AI brain — all running on your machine. YouTube — "race highlights" isn't your task. You said you'd build the onboarding flow. Back to it? A real day in LockinRa, in sixty seconds: brain-dump a plan, lock in, drift once, get caught, end with the day measured. "Race highlights" isn't the onboarding flow. You're 22 minutes into a good block — don't trade it for this. "One YouTube detour at 10:34 — caught in nine seconds. Otherwise, By 2pm your prefrontal cortex is fried. The fortieth "just five minutes" wins. Discipline doesn't scale across a whole day. Every todo app and "focus"…from lockinra.xyz

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