{"id":87151,"date":"2021-08-09T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=87151"},"modified":"2021-08-09T15:49:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T14:49:28","slug":"microsoft-focus-sessions-on-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/microsoft-focus-sessions-on-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft tease Focus Sessions on Windows 11 &#8211; a timer feature with Spotify integration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em style=\"user-select: auto;\">Image Credit: <a style=\"user-select: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/panos_panay\/status\/1423343837934546946\">Spotify<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 style=\"user-select: auto;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; user-select: auto;\">Built-in to the Clock app on Windows 11, Focus Sessions combines a timer, tasks list, Spotify player and daily progress.<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Panos Panay, Microsoft&#8217;s chief product officer, shared a video on Twitter last week teasing a new feature on the Clock app of Windows 11. Focus Sessions seemingly allows users to set timers, write and complete tasks, view their daily progress, and get shortcuts to Spotify&#8217;s playlists. The demo shows someone picking a task, setting an amount of time to focus on it and choosing a suitable soundtrack from Spotify&#8217;s editorial chill-out and focus playlists such as <a style=\"user-select: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/37i9dQZF1DX4WYpdgoIcn6?si=e3c68c242ad14723\">Chill Hits<\/a> and <a style=\"user-select: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/37i9dQZF1DX9sIqqvKsjG8?si=79784fff19d24cf6\">Instrumental Study<\/a>. Hopefully these can be customised to users own playlists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another first look from the team&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FocusSessions?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FocusSessions<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Windows11?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Windows11<\/a> coming soon. This has been a game-changer for me, especially with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Spotify?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Spotify<\/a> integration  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Productivity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Productivity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Creativity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Creativity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WindowsInsiders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WindowsInsiders<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HfJh4niDiS\">pic.twitter.com\/HfJh4niDiS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Panos Panay (@panos_panay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/panos_panay\/status\/1423343837934546946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The new feature is yet to be implemented in the beta of Windows 11. We are hoping to see a public release of Windows 11 in late 2021. 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