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A FocusMe account links your installations together. Logging in validates your licence or trial, and keeps your plans, tasks, activity and master password in sync across every computer where you use FocusMe.

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Creating an Account

When you buy FocusMe or start a trial on the website, an account is created for you with the email address you used. You can also create one from inside the app: click Login in the sidebar and follow the Sign up free link in the login dialog.

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Logging In

While you are logged out, the sidebar shows Login, Upgrade and Activate.

The Login dialog

  1. Click Login in the sidebar — the dialog says Welcome to FocusMe / Please login below
  2. Enter your Email address and Password (click Show to check what you typed)
  3. Tick Save my login info if you want FocusMe to log in automatically on this computer
  4. Click Login
If you have a licence on this account, FocusMe confirms with License successfully validated! and any Free trial: N days remaining banner disappears. Once logged in, the sidebar shows Logout in place of Login. Forgot your password? Use the Reset password link in the dialog. To enter a licence key instead of logging in, see Activate a Licence.

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What Syncs

Local preferences — window size, theme, notification positions and the like — stay on each computer.

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Sync to Devices

Every plan carries its own list of devices. You set it in the wizard’s Review step, where the Devices row summarises the current choice — This device only, All devices, including new ones, All current devices or N devices — and is only shown when you are logged in.
  1. Open the plan in the wizard and go to Review
  2. Click Change on the Devices row to open the Sync to Devices dialog
  3. Tick the devices the plan should run on. Each entry shows the device name (with (this device) for the one you are using), its operating system and when it was last seen
  4. Tick New devices if the plan should also appear automatically on any computer you log in to in future
  5. Click Done
Changes to a plan — edits, starts and stops, deletions — are pushed to the selected devices within a few seconds while they are online.
Keep device-specific plans local. A plan that blocks a game only installed on your home PC does not need to exist on your work laptop; leave it on This device only.
A plan synced to another device runs there with the same protection. If you sync a Lock it Down plan to your laptop, you will have to meet its challenge on the laptop too.

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Activity Sync

Open the Activity tab, click the ellipsis menu and choose Activity Settings:
  • Record Activity — powers the Activity page, weekly recaps and Coach insights
  • Sync Between Devices — uploads activity so it can be viewed on your other devices (turning it off stops activity sync on every device; plans and tasks are not affected)
  • Sync From This Device — include or exclude this computer’s activity
See Activity for the full page.

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Logging Out

Click Logout in the sidebar and confirm Logout?. Two situations prevent it:
  • Plans are enabled — Cannot logout while plans are enabled! Stop all plans first. This stops logout being used to escape a running plan.
  • Auto-login is in use — Cannot logout while using auto-login mode! Turn off automatic login before logging out.
Logging out leaves your plans on this computer as they are; they simply stop syncing until you log in again.

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Folder Sync (legacy)

If you prefer not to use an account, FocusMe still supports syncing plans through a shared folder. The Sync tab appears in Settings only while you are logged out, and is labelled Folder Sync (legacy). Folder Sync is not available while you are logged in — the tab notes (Not available while logged in). Use one method or the other.