A tool to help restore your focus
Attention fatigue rarely announces itself loudly—it shows up as micro-frictions, compulsive tab opening, and phantom urges. Step away for a protocol the moment you observe these behavioral signals:
You catch yourself reading the exact same paragraph or email three times without retaining a single concept.
Your hand reaches for your phone or opens a social/news tab without any conscious decision or intent.
You open two or three secondary tabs simply because a primary page takes more than two seconds to load.
A complex task becomes momentarily difficult or ambiguous, and you immediately flee into shallow administrative inbox checks.
Bouncing between chat, email, spreadsheets, and drafts while completing zero meaningful, coherent units of work.
Your natural post-lunch circadian trough hits, leaving your directed attention depleted and reactive.
Active tools designed to disengage Directed Attention and induce Soft Fascination without digital friction.
Relax ciliary eye muscles and engage panoramic vision with the expanding rhythm.
Activate the Default Mode Network (DMN). No reading, scrolling, or incoming stimuli.
Attention Restoration via effortless observation of natural movement and depth.
Use this each time you open Fallow Garden. Never let an impulse break your deep focus. Offload stray thoughts to clear working memory, then review them after your fallow rest. This will reset every time you use the app.
Fallow Garden is an independent, free, and privacy-first tool designed to help protect human attention from algorithmic exhaustion.
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