Deep Work, With the Clock in the Corner
Context switching is the tax; flow is the refund. Stillscape pairs your IDE with a rainy-cafe scene, 90/20 and 52/17 presets, and a picture-in-picture timer that floats over whatever you're shipping.
Enter the room — free No ads · No account · PiP timer · Local-first dataBuilt for long blocks, not just 25 minutes
- Presets that match real work. Deep Work 90/20 for the hard refactor, 52/17 for the all-day grind, classic 25/5 for review and email — one click each.
- PiP over the IDE. A native picture-in-picture mini-timer (with a draggable fallback) keeps the clock visible without stealing an edge of your editor.
- Open-office masking. Rain, cafe and white-noise layers on independent faders — the standup behind you becomes weather.
- Tickets as tasks. "MIGRATE-142 — 3 pomodoros" tracks its own count; finished blocks assign themselves.
- Local-first, forever. No account, no telemetry: stats live in your browser and export to CSV when your retro needs receipts.
- Offline PWA. VPN died? The timer didn't.
The economics of one uninterrupted hour
A interrupted hour isn't an hour of work — it's twelve minutes of work plus four ramp-ups. The 90/20 preset exists because complex code needs a long runway: the first twenty minutes load context, the middle fifty write it, the break commits it. Stillscape's scene supports the runway — dimming when focus starts, warming when it ends — so the boundary between "checking Slack" and "shipping" is visible from across the room.
Details on the intervals live in the Pomodoro guide; the timer itself is one click away.
Start the block, close the tickets
Rain in the background, timer in the corner, flow in the foreground.
Enter the room