I’ve used a lot of focus timers. Pomofocus, Forest, Be Focused, plus half a dozen menu-bar variants. They all do the same thing: 25 minutes counts down, a chime plays, you start over. None of them know what you’re working on.
That’s the gap. The timer is supposed to be the cue — but if the cue is detached from the task, the brain treats it as background noise. You start the timer, switch apps, the timer fades out of attention, and you’re checking Slack within four minutes.
monah is built around one idea: the timer should sit next to the task you picked from your Notion database. Not “Pomodoro 27”, not “Focus session” — the actual line you wrote in your task list. And it stays visible the whole time the timer runs.
That’s most of what monah does. The rest is just plumbing — Notion OAuth so it talks to your databases, a Mac panel that doesn’t steal focus, time logged back automatically when the timer completes.
If you want to try it: download for macOS. If you have a Notion workspace already, setup is a click.