Creating Focus Sessions

Sessions are a core component of Rize that help categorize the work you were doing into one of three groups: focus work, meetings, or breaks. Focus Sessions show you the times throughout your day that you spent on deep work activities.

Typically, Rize automatically creates Focus Sessions for you based on your activity. You can also manually create a Focus Session as needed.

Automatically Creating Focus Sessions

Creating Focus Sessions from Your Activity

Rize creates a Focus Session automatically when you spend approximately 75% of your time in apps and websites whose rules use Focus mode within any timeframe of 15 minutes or longer.

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See Configuring Focus Apps and Websites to learn how to set Focus and Non-Focus apps and websites.

When a Focus Session is created, it will be added to the Sessions section of your timeline.

Creating Focus Sessions from Your Calendar

Rize will detect keywords in your calendar event title or description to automatically create Focus Sessions.

By default, the Focus Session keywords are #rize-focus, focus, or flow. Focus Session keywords can be customized in Settings > Calendars.

Manually Creating Focus Sessions

Rize also allows you to manually create Focus Sessions from various locations within the app, making it easy to start one immediately or schedule one for later.

Creating a Focus Session on the Home Tab

1. Drag and drop on the Sessions timeline.
2. Select "Add Session."
3. From the "Select a type" dropdown, select "Focus."

Creating a Focus Session on the Focus Page

1. Open Focus under Agent in the sidebar.
2. Click the play button under the timer, or click + and choose Start Focus.
3. Set the duration and goal, choose Auto-detect (Rize picks the task, project, and client from your activity) or Manual (pick them yourself), and click Start Focus.

See The Focus page for the timer controls, extending a session, the sidebar, and Silent mode.

Creating a Focus Session with the Start Session button

1. Click the "Start Session" button in the bottom-left corner of the app
2. Select "Focus."