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The new focus feature is great and something I've been looking forward to for ages — so much so that I built a hacky version of it myself a while ago. Essentially, I used to put on do not disturb for deep work but forget to turn it off later, missing out on important notifications. I really enjoy turning things off for an hour or two and then get back to being social. Having the feature baked into the OS instead of my hacky workaround app is great.

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Focus, to me, looks like the first move to an actual focus mode, one where you actually have a personal and work workspace, where some apps hide, and some apps hide certain windows. This is a key thing for my productivity..

Well, with Big Sur you can already set Do Not Disturb "for one hour". It's what I usually choose, for the same reason.

Thanks for the heads up, I haven't jumped to Big Sur yet because it simply does not play well with some virtualization tools.

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