Every Hawser feature, on one page

Today's tasks, one at a time

Your day is a list, in the order you drag it into. The top task that isn't done is your current task: it sits large on Today with what's up next, Done hands you the next one, and Start on any row moves it to the top. Break a task into subtasks with AI help. Nothing hurries you.

A mission, if you want one

One optional line for what the day is for, with a why under it. When there is one, Hawser weighs your current task and your mission together when it judges drift. Skip it and the day is just the list.

Start your day

A new morning opens on one page inside Hawser's window: write the day's tasks, a mission if you like, and the distractions to watch, or skip it. A day you planned ahead opens already filled in, ready to confirm.

Tasks from earlier days

Tasks never carry over by themselves. "Review tasks from earlier days" lists what never got done, with Add to today or Let it go for each, and a way to let go of everything older than a week.

Task log

Every task you've written and what became of it: done, not done, removed. Kept on your computer, never synced, and cleared when you choose with Clear earlier days.

Today's numbers open up

Click Focused, Distraction time or Nudges sent on Today to see which sites and apps the minutes went to, and what each nudge said and why.

Focus profiles

Save a whole setup (mission plus what's blocked) and switch into it in one tap.

Time blocks

Plan the day as a playlist: deep work, lunch, admin, and Hawser runs it block by block, nudging you at every handoff. It knows a break block from a work block, so it stays quiet when you meant to rest.

Time blocks at a set time opt in

Give a planned day's blocks a start time and they begin by themselves then. Never set unless you set it. If you're away or in a session it waits, and if it's more than ten minutes late it asks first.

Recurring tasks

Set a task to come back every day, on the weekdays you pick, or at a set time, and it appears on its own each morning.

Block apps

Force-close distracting apps the moment they open.

Time-limit apps

Warn after a few minutes, close later; one default for every app, or a time limit of its own for one.

Block websites

Domain-level website blocking (site blocking needs admin rights once). Hitting a blocked site never closes your whole browser: only the site is blocked, so the rest of your tabs are left alone. Blocked apps still close.

Block whole categories

Games, social, shopping, streaming, gambling, adult: each in one switch.

Only nudge when fullscreen

Allow an app in a window (YouTube as a reference next to your work) but get a nudge when it goes fullscreen.

Schedules

Auto-switch whole rule sets by time and day: strict during work hours, loose in the evening, off on weekends.

Soft screen time cap

Say how long you want to be on for. When you hit it Hawser starts winding you down instead of slamming a door, and you can take more time if you genuinely need it.

Interval reminders

Have something said to you every so often while you sit on a particular app or site. Your words, your interval, only where you asked for them.

AI nudges & hard blocks

A gentle, personal nudge first; a full-screen block only when you asked for one.

Context-aware judgment

Hawser reads your last 20 minutes of activity before judging drift, so troubleshooting an error for your current task doesn't count as slacking. When in doubt, it gives you the benefit of the doubt.

Nudges show their reasoning

Every nudge carries a small panel above the message: your mission, the window Hawser looked at, what it saw on screen, and how it called it. Click any row to open it up. See exactly why you got pulled back, and tell Hawser when it got you wrong.

"I meant to do this"

Drift nudges have no snooze button, because a nudge you postpone in one click is a nudge you never answer. You get "I meant to do this" instead: one press buys 15 quiet minutes on that app, on your word. No lecture, no lasting mark against you, and Hawser doesn't learn the wrong lesson from it. Reminders and wind-down prompts keep their snooze.

Proactive check-ins

Optional, and off until you turn it on: the companion looks in now and then and speaks up if something seems worth it, on a schedule you control (hours, days, frequency).

Friction prompt

On your first switch to a limited app, a quick "what's pulling you there right now?" breaks autopilot.

Contextual nudges

Celebrates a long focus run, offers one small late-day win if the goal isn't done, re-engages lightly when you return from idle.

Immersion-aware nudging

If you're locked into a game or deep focus, soft nudges wait for a natural break instead of interrupting mid-action.

Busy-wait detection

Recognizes compiles, downloads, and transfers, and holds nudges while you're genuinely waiting.

Away mode

Tell Hawser you're stepping away and everything pauses, stats included, until it sees you're back at the keyboard. Or say "stay off until 3pm."

Avoidance check-in

If everything's been muted for hours, it gently asks whether the quiet is rest or hiding. One tap either way.

Progressive firmness opt in

Keep drifting day after day and the voice gets more direct: fewer cushions, never contempt.

Auto-enforce opt in

At sustained high drift, Hawser closes the drift app itself, always after a 20 second countdown. You decide how often that countdown offers two more minutes: never, a set number a day, or every time.

Nudge personalities opt in

Roast me (comedy that sharpens as you drift), Clingy girlfriend ("would you still love me if I was a worm?"), and Brutal, which just insults you and ships with a warning label.

Adaptive suggestions

A weekly pass proposes settings changes that fit how you actually behave; you review before anything applies.

Co-working sessions

Pick what you're working on and a duration; Hawser sits with you through the block with a live timer, an "I'm stuck" button, and a warm check-out.

Halfway check-in

One optional mid-session "still with you" for longer blocks. Turn it off for pure silent presence.

Friend on a call opt in

During a session, the AI occasionally offers a concrete next step, capped so it never becomes noise.

Take a break

Tell it "I'm playing games for an hour" and it goes quiet, no nagging, then resumes.

Auto-quiet on calls

When your mic is live it holds every popup so nothing lands on a screen share. It reads mic on/off state only, never audio.

Wrap up the day

End the day on purpose: review what got done, tick any unfinished tasks you want on tomorrow's list (the rest are marked skipped), plan tomorrow, and get told you're done.

Daily reflection

Once a day the companion opens with an observation and a couple of honest questions about how it went.

Compassionate failure mode

Set a mission and miss it, and you get warmth instead of a guilt trip. No streak shame, ever.

Weekly retrospective

Once a week the reflection zooms out across your last 7 days of missions and patterns.

Welcome-back capsule

Come back from a long interruption and a quiet pill reminds you exactly where you left off and what's next.

Wins

Log wins in one line and browse the timeline when you need proof you're moving.

Celebrations

Finish the last task on the day's list and the app actually celebrates: confetti, a big checkmark, and an acknowledgment after long focus stretches.

Share my week

One click builds a markdown summary of your week to send to an accountability partner. Nothing leaves your machine until you hit send.

Mission templates

Reusable presets for days that repeat.

Calm-down mode

Overwhelmed? Pause everything for a chosen rest, dump what's pulling at you, and get a grounding message. Rests are never tracked against you.

Calm-down suggestion

After a long distracted stretch it softly offers the reset, and never auto-opens anything.

Self-care breaks

Gentle posture, eye-rest (20-20-20), and hydration prompts, each individually toggleable, as a toast or a proper break screen.

Calendar

Your days a week or a month at a time: what you planned, what happened, and what Hawser already knows about them. Past days show what got done and how long you focused.

Plan a day ahead

Write a day's mission and tasks now, and that morning Hawser opens with them, ready to confirm or change. Plan tomorrow is one button, and wrap up offers it too.

Reminders and alarms on the days

Add a reminder (once, every day or weekdays) or a one-time alarm straight from a day. Days gone by show what went off.

Time blocks on a day

Plan a day's blocks ahead. On the day they wait on Today with a Start button, or start by themselves at a time you set.

What repeats, said once

Weekday schedules, daily alarms and repeating reminders sit in one Every week line over the days instead of cluttering each one.

Block schedules on their days

Your schedules and rule windows show on the days they run, so the whole day reads at once. Click one to open where it's set.

Your rhythm on the days

Once Hawser has learned them, the days ahead say when you usually focus best and which weekday is usually your best.

Goals on their dates

A goal with a date shows on its day. Put a step on a day and it becomes a task there; finishing the task finishes the step.

Goal-aware nudging

Working on one of your goals counts as focus, even when it's not on today's list.

About me

Tell Hawser who you are and what you're working toward so every nudge fits you, and edit what it remembers any time.

Plan with the Claude app

Ask the Claude app on your PC to plan your week. It reads your days, your goals, how the last two weeks went and your best focus hours, and sends a plan: missions, tasks, reminders, alarms, time blocks and steps toward your goals.

Connect Claude opt in

Three presses: Connect Claude in Hawser, Install in the Claude app, then Allow on the card Hawser shows, which says what Claude will be able to see and do. Nothing to copy or paste.

Every plan waits for your yes

A plan lands on the Calendar with every change, day by day, and anything it would replace. Confirm or Not now. One press undoes a confirmed plan.

Let it go ahead, if you choose opt in

"Let Claude change my plans without asking" is off unless you switch it on for that app. Hawser still tells you what changed and keeps the undo.

Your calendar too

If your Claude has its own calendar connector, such as Google Calendar, it reads that as well and plans around your events. Hawser never reads your calendar itself.

Costs nothing extra

The planning runs on your own Claude account, so Hawser charges nothing on top.

More AI apps coming

The Claude app for Windows works today. More AI apps are coming; none is promised, or given a date, until it works.

Companion chat

Floating card, snapped sidebar, or tiny bubble; always a click away, on top of any app.

Configure by talking

"Block YouTube after 20 minutes", "no games on weekday afternoons": it sets the rules for you.

Run your day from chat

Add tasks, mark things done, change today's goal, set reminders, log wins, start a co-work block, switch focus modes.

Build goals & decks from chat

"Add a goal to write a novel", "make a Spanish deck with these cards".

See your screen

Ask "what's on my screen?" and it looks. On by default because it is the whole idea; turn it off any time, and snapshots are never stored.

Confirm before apply

Every change the companion proposes shows an Apply / Dismiss card by default. It can never claim it did something it didn't; a safeguard checks every reply.

Agent Access (MCP) opt in

Connect the Claude app or Claude Code to Hawser on your machine. It can check how your day is going, add tasks, set reminders, read your notes, read and add to your brain dump, and start co-work or away sessions, with the same rules and confirmations as the companion. Each app gets its own key you can narrow or revoke. Your own PC only, off until you turn it on.

Brain Dump

Drop any loose thought, typed or spoken, and get it out of your head.

Auto-categorize

Each capture lands as a task, reminder, idea, note, or question on its own.

Smart reminder detection

Say "remind me at 3pm to call Mom" anywhere, chat or capture, and it offers to schedule the real thing.

Travel-aware reminders

"Dentist at 3, 25 minutes away" and it back-computes when to actually leave, prep buffer included.

Reminders, your way

Fire as a premium top-of-screen capsule, a full-screen takeover, a corner toast, or a tray notification.

Search, pin & auto-archive

Find any capture, pin what matters, and stale unpinned items archive themselves after 30 days.

Notes

A real markdown notebook: live highlighting, preview, pinning, wiki-style links between notes, export to .md.

Clock

Timers, a stopwatch with laps, and repeating alarms, with a pop-out mini window and a chime plus capsule when time's up.

Sync across devices opt in

Off by default. Turning it on opens a consent screen that lists exactly what uploads, and nothing goes anywhere until you say yes. What syncs: your brain dump captures, your notes, your daily missions, your tasks, your goals, your reminders, your learning flashcards and your timers, contents included, so every device you're signed in on sees the same thing. A day you planned ahead syncs like any other day. What never uploads: your activity history, your window titles, your focus stats, your screenshots, your task log, your settings (the alarms and time blocks on your days stay with them), and your chats with the companion. If two devices edited the same thing while one was offline, the version that loses is kept as a labelled copy rather than thrown away.

Hawser on your phone beta

Open gethawser.com/app on your phone and add it to your home screen. No store, no separate install, and it comes with your account. It catches a brain dump when you're away from your desk, reads and writes your notes, runs your timers, and shows and writes your reminders. A timer you start on one side is running on the other about a second later.

It works with no signal and sends what you wrote once you're back. It needs the same account signed in and sync switched on. Honest scope while it's a beta: no day view, you can't edit or delete a note from the phone yet, and your computer is still what fires a reminder. Tell me what's missing and it moves up the list.

Spaced-repetition flashcards

SM-2 scheduling resurfaces each card right as you're about to forget it.

Audio cards

Hear a clip, name it, reveal. Built for music intervals and pronunciation.

Import Anki decks

Bring your .apkg decks in, audio included.

AI deck generator

Describe a topic and Hawser writes the deck for you.

Find decks online

Search AnkiWeb's shared decks and import one without leaving the app.

Review reminders

A gentle "cards are ready" toast when enough reviews are due, never spammy.

Ambient review beta opt in

A card quietly surfaces while you work, on your cadence, with daily caps, so learning happens all day instead of in one cram.

Dictate anywhere beta

Tap Ctrl+Shift+Win and talk into any app, then tap again, or just hold it while you talk and let go. A live waveform pill shows it is listening, and the words are typed in, so your clipboard is left alone.

Dictation styles

Auto-clean mishears, or rewrite what you said as professional, casual, concise, or a custom style you define.

In-field mic

A mic button on Hawser's own text fields for quick voice input.

Quick capture

Ctrl+Alt+A speak a thought from anywhere; it lands in Brain Dump.

Quick add

Ctrl+Alt+T type a task straight onto today's list from any app.

The Helm

Ctrl+Alt+H a summon-anywhere HUD: glance at your day, quick actions, and a talk/type line to the companion.

Screenshot assist

Ctrl+Alt+S snip a region and ask about it: explain this error, summarize this, draft a reply.

Clipboard history

Ctrl+Alt+V an in-memory clipboard picker that never writes your clips to disk.

Text transform

Ctrl+Alt+X run AI transforms on whatever's in your clipboard.

Write into field

Ctrl+Alt+W describe what you want written, review it, and it lands in the field you had focused.

Rewrite selection

Ctrl+Alt+R rewrite selected text in a chosen tone and paste it back in place.

Selection actions

Ctrl+Alt+G summarize, reply, translate, extract, calculate, or turn a selection into reminders or tasks.

Smart paste

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V strips junk formatting and pastes clean text.

Snippets

Ctrl+Alt+J a searchable snippet picker, plus inline expansion that types a snippet when you type its shortcut.

Teleprompter

Ctrl+Alt+P read your script straight down the lens. The overlay stays invisible to screen recordings and video calls, so it never shows up in the take.

Words light as you read

Rather than a bar stuck in the middle of the window, the script itself carries your place: lines you have read fade back and the live line lights up a word at a time.

Pace you can trust

Speed is set in lines per minute, not pixels, so the pace means the same thing whatever size you set the text. It eases in at the top and carries on to your last word at the bottom.

Voice scroll

Let the script follow your speaking pace and hold when you pause, so you never race the screen or wait on it.

Read and keep working

Make the overlay click through and it stops catching your mouse, so you can drive the app behind it while the script floats on top.

History

Day-by-day missions, focused vs distracted minutes, time per app, past co-working sessions, and what actually happened. In Settings, History.

Do Not Disturb

One click silences nudges for 30 minutes, an hour, two, until tomorrow, or until you say so.

Per-type quiet modes

Mute just learning pop-ups, or just reminders, or just focus nudges, each on its own timer.

Call & OBS override

Choose whether nudges are allowed during calls and while streaming software runs.

Daily & weekly summaries

An end-of-day recap by default; a weekly email-style digest if you want one.

Messages from Hawser

A bell in the header where we can reach you directly with a reply to something you reported, or an announcement worth knowing about. Nothing to sign up for, and it is one way: we cannot read anything back.

Sounds opt in

Soft, generated audio cues for completions and reminders. Off until you want them.

Color palettes

Recolor the whole app from presets or any custom hex.

High contrast

Brighter text and borders, applied live.

Reduce motion

Strips fades, slides, confetti, and glow for a completely still interface.

Text & UI scaling

Normal, large, or larger, across the whole app.

Readable font option

Swap to a plainer, wider font if that reads easier for you.

Rebindable shortcuts

Every global hotkey can be changed, and there's a cheat sheet.

Companion appearance

Floating, sidebar (left or right), or bubble; always-on-top and show-on-startup are your call.

Quality-of-life defaults

Run on Windows login, reopen your last tab, suppress overlays during fullscreen video or games.

Quiet start

Starting with Windows never steals your focus or lands on top of a game. Hawser waits in the tray until you want it, and the splash screen has a close button.

Local-first data

Your tasks, missions, captures, and history live on your machine. You can read, edit, and delete what Hawser remembers about you.

Screen awareness, disclosed up front

On by default because it is the whole idea, and the very first setup screen says so in plain words with the off switch right there. Snapshots are analyzed in the moment, never stored, never written to disk, and there's an ask-before-every-send mode.

Screenshot size & quality caps

Control resolution and compression of anything that is sent, trading detail for privacy.

Tracking toggles

Turn off window-title tracking, idle tracking, or activity tracking entirely, each independently.

Sensitive-context guard

Add app names and title keywords (banking, medical, whatever you choose) where Hawser goes blind and quiet automatically.

Hide from screen capture opt in

Exclude every Hawser window from Zoom, Discord, OBS, and screenshots, so your accountability stays yours.

Encrypted backups opt in

Manual or scheduled AES-256 encrypted backups, password held in Windows Credential Manager.

Export anytime

Your data leaves with you in one click, no questions.

Local AI option advanced

Point Hawser at a local model (embedded llama.cpp or Ollama) if you want inference on your own hardware. Honest note: this takes setup and is weaker than the cloud AI today.

Keys in Credential Manager

License tokens and any personal API key live in Windows Credential Manager, never in a plaintext config file.

14 day free trial

Sign in with email, no card. Hosted AI is included, so there's no API key to bring.

Mac version planned

Windows first, Mac groundwork already laid. On the roadmap for this year.

In-app feature directory

This exact list lives inside the app too, searchable, with jump links that open each feature.

Guided tour & per-tab help

Every tab has a plain-English explainer and its own settings shortcut; a tour walks new users through all of it.

Settings that disagree say so

When two settings contradict each other, or one quietly makes another do nothing, a small note appears beside both, says which one wins, and has a button that takes you to the other. Nothing is changed for you: you decide which one should give way, and the note goes the moment you do. Rules that fight on Apps & Sites get the same red mark.

Feedback, one click away

A header button that goes straight to the founder. Every report shapes what gets fixed next.