Calm productivity for developers

Make progress.Know when to stop.

Give your next task a clear goal and a definition of done. Focus with a timer and music, then save your progress and where to pick up — in your browser, VS Code or Cursor.

What has to be true for this to be done?

Break durationHow long the pause lasts before the next block starts.

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Know what you actually built
AI reviews your week of sprintsAI

A little structure. A clearer mind.

AI makes it easy to keep going.That’s the problem.

An hour later you’ve skimmed 600 lines, fixed two unrelated issues, and you’re not sure what you actually verified. You’re still working — the original task is just harder to see.

Give the session a clear boundary: what you’re working on, what would count as progress, and where to pick up afterward.

Without a boundary

Always one more thing.

Developer surrounded by clutter, scattered tabs, and a broken timer
  • More code. Less certainty.

    The agent writes faster than you can review, so you skim.

  • Your energy sets the limit.

    You stop when you’re drained, not when the work is done.

  • The original task slips away.

    Useful-looking detours, but the original task still isn’t done.

  • “Almost there” has no end.

    Stopping feels like losing progress, so you prompt for another hour.

  • A busy day. Unclear progress.

    By evening you can’t say what shipped, or what the agent did.

With NEDIO

Make progress you can see.

Focused programmer at a calm desk with a single screen and ambient sound
  • Make room for a real review.

    Review in bounded blocks and note what’s left for next time.

  • Finish with energy left.

    Every block ends in a break. NEDIO never rewards working longer.

  • Keep your goal in sight.

    Your goal sits in the tab title, so every detour runs into it.

  • Pick up where you left off.

    Stop with the next step saved. The next session starts from it.

  • See what you actually built.

    Close-out puts what happened next to what you intended.

Room to focus

Where a boundary
helps most.

01

Reviewing code you didn’t write

Name what you’re checking and give it a block. At close-out you record what you verified and what you didn’t, so the next pass starts from the gap rather than from line one.

02

A pace you can repeat tomorrow

Pick a block and a break, and stop when the block does. Your week counts focus time with pauses removed, so a long day and a good day stop looking alike.

03

Picking up where you stopped

Yesterday’s next step is today’s goal. You start from the line you left at close-out instead of re-reading a diff to work out what you were doing.

How it works

A clear goal now.
A clear next step later.

01Set up

Make “done” clear.

Name one thing you want to finish. Set your timer and start with focus audio in one click.

The NEDIO sprint goal field filled in with "Review the auth change for missing permission checks", and a done-when field below it

02Focus

Work with the goal in view.

Start the timer and focus audio. Your goal stays in the tab title or your editor’s status bar when another idea pulls you away.

A NEDIO block running: the goal "Ship the auth fix and open the PR" above a 24:48 countdown, with audio controls below

03Close out

Close out in 30 seconds.

Record what changed, what’s still open, and the next action before you leave. That’s what makes it safe to stop.

The NEDIO close-out screen: the goal and done-when as written, a partly-reached outcome, session quality, and a parking line holding the next step

04Review your week

Look back at your week.

See which goals you finished, what moved forward, and your focus time with pauses taken out.

NEDIO week overview: how many blocks ended with the goal reached, total focus time, block count and average block, focus volume per day, and a work modes breakdown

The session record

One session.
Start to finish.

The task isn’t finished — and the next session still starts in the right place.

Example session

Mode
Review · 45 min
Goal
Review the auth change for missing permission checks
Done when
I’ve checked the permission paths and noted open questions
Outcome
Partly done
What you finished
Checked admin and owner roles and token refresh. Open: guest invite path — not sure the agent’s check covers it.
Next step
Trace guest invites from the invite handler.

Weekly AI review

Which work habits
are worth keeping?

Each week, AI Review looks at your recorded sessions for patterns in the goals you finish. When there’s enough evidence, it suggests one change to try and tracks the outcomes you record. Findings need a few weeks of sessions.

Some weeks, there’s no clear pattern. You’ll get a factual recap instead.

Based on your session records. It doesn’t inspect or verify your code.

Example insight · 28 days

You completed more goals when you defined “done” first.

Goals completed

With “done when…”10of 14
Without it1of 6

One change to test

Write what “done” means before your next sprint.

NEDIO checks later whether your goal completion improved.

Already where you work

Run it from
VS Code or Cursor.

When an agent writes part of the code, your sense of what you got done is at its least reliable. The NEDIO panel lives in your activity bar, the goal and countdown in the status bar — same history as the browser. Free.

Clear boundaries, for us too

What NEDIO
won’t do.

Doesn’t read your code.

Not file contents, file names, or repository names — in the browser or the editor.

Doesn’t review your code.

You do. NEDIO keeps track of what you checked and what’s still open.

Doesn’t push you to work longer.

Focus time excludes pauses, and more hours is never the goal.

Doesn’t invent insights.

When there’s no clear pattern, AI Review says so. No manager dashboards.

A few things to know

Frequently
asked questions.

Is NEDIO free, and where is the limit?

Yes. You get 30 minutes of focus audio per day without an account, or 60 minutes per day when signed in. The timer, work modes, close-out, history and weekly statistics are not limited. When the audio budget runs out, playback pauses until it resets the next day. Pro removes the daily cap, adds timer customization, skip controls, and AI Review for $11.99/month or $119.90/year.

Does NEDIO review AI-generated code?

No. You do the code review. NEDIO helps you set the goal for a review session and record what you checked and what is still open. AI Review looks at your session history, not your code.

What data does NEDIO collect?

Only what you type into it and what it counts: goals, work modes, durations, pauses and outcomes. It does not read your code — not file contents, not file names, not repository names — including from the VS Code and Cursor extension. The Privacy Policy lists every field, and what analytics cookies do if you accept them.

Is there a VS Code or Cursor extension?

Yes, and it is free. The extension puts the sprint panel in your activity bar and the countdown in the status bar, so starting a block is not a context switch. Sessions run from the editor share one history with sessions run in the browser.

How is this different from a timer and notes?

A timer counts time and notes pile up somewhere else. NEDIO keeps the goal, the timer, the outcome and the next step in one record, so you can see what you meant to finish next to what you actually finished — and resume from it.

What if I don’t finish the task?

Record what you tried, what you learned, and the next step. An unfinished task still leaves a useful record for your next session.

Do I need to create an account?

No. You can start a sprint immediately without signing up. An account raises the daily audio budget to 60 minutes, syncs your history across devices, and keeps your sprints when you switch browsers.

Does the timer keep running when I switch tabs?

Yes. The countdown is anchored to the clock rather than counted in ticks, so a background tab — which browsers throttle to roughly one tick a minute — cannot make it drift, and the audio keeps playing. The tab title carries your goal and the time left, so when you switch back, they are right there.

What is AI Review, and will it find something every week?

AI Review reads your session history once a week. A comparative claim has to clear a size threshold and a significance test before it is shown, and every claim carries the counters it was computed from. When there is a real pattern, you see it with the numbers behind it. When there is not, you get a plain recap — never a made-up insight. AI Review is part of Pro.

How does NEDIO track my sessions?

Every session logs quality, what you finished, and your next step in about 10 seconds at the end. Your weekly view shows honest focus time minus pauses, and how often you hit the goal you set, as counts.

What is NEDIO?

NEDIO is a pomodoro timer with music for developers. It keeps one goal in view, plays instrumental coding music, and records what you finished and where to pick up — in the browser, VS Code or Cursor. Pro adds a weekly AI review of your own session history.

Can I use NEDIO with Pomodoro?

Yes. The sprint timer supports standard Pomodoro intervals (25/5) as well as custom durations. Pro users can configure work and break intervals to match their preferred sprint rhythm.

How is NEDIO different from Spotify or YouTube playlists?

Playlists are passive. You pick music and hope it works. NEDIO pairs curated instrumental audio with a structured sprint timer, so you start the sprint, hear the audio, and work until the timer ends. No playlist curation. No autoplay rabbit holes.

What kind of music does NEDIO play?

NEDIO plays instrumental focus audio: ambient, electronic, and lo-fi tracks selected for coding. No lyrics. No ads. The goal is audio that supports concentration without competing for your attention.

One small step is enough

Give your next task
a clear starting point.

Choose one small step and start a free session. No account needed.

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