DockPal can help you focus in two ways. A focus session is its own timer. The Keep DockPal Quiet filter makes your pet settle down during a macOS Focus, such as Do Not Disturb or Work.
Focus sessions
- Hover over your pet and choose a focus session, or open the corgi icon in your menu bar.
- Pick 25 or 50 minutes.
- Your pet trots to the end of the Dock and naps quietly while the timer runs, with no sounds or bubbles.
- When the time is up, it cheers.
To end early, choose Stop Focus Timer from the menu bar or by right-clicking your pet.
Want a different length? The Start a Focus Session action in Shortcuts takes any length from 1 to 180 minutes. See Widget and Shortcuts.
Keep it quiet during a Focus
- In DockPal, go to Settings › Reactions and turn on Curl up quietly during a Focus. It’s off by default.
- Open System Settings › Focus and choose the Focus you want.
- Under Focus filters, add Keep DockPal Quiet.
While that Focus is on, your pet curls up where it is, with no sounds, bubbles, reactions or meeting reminders. A reaction already playing finishes first. You can still click and feed it, and hovering says “Shh… you’re in a Focus.”
DockPal notices whether a Focus is on, never which one.
Other ways to tell it about a Focus
The filter is the easiest way, but there are two alternatives:
- Full Disk Access is entirely optional. macOS grants it broadly, but DockPal only uses it to tell whether a Focus is on, and it reads nothing else.
- Shortcuts automations can open
dockpal://focus/onwhen a Focus starts anddockpal://focus/offwhen it ends. These aren’t saved, so each launch starts with no Focus from them.