Question 1

What is onelane?

Accepted Answer

onelane is a cross-platform focus and accountability app for iOS and Android. It helps you stay in one lane at a time — protecting single-tasking, capturing distractions without acting on them, and turning your weekly plan into a visible record of progress. It is a mirror and a guardrail, not a taskmaster.

Question 2

What problem does onelane solve?

Accepted Answer

onelane solves drift — the task-switching, yak-shaving, and lack of closure that make a hard week feel like nothing got done. Instead of measuring where your time went after the fact, onelane protects one focus block at a time, gives off-task impulses a place to wait, and closes each block with a record of what you actually finished.

Question 3

What are onelane's core features?

Accepted Answer

onelane is built on three things that work together: (1) Single-tasking — commit to one lane for a block and keep your one intended outcome pinned the whole time; (2) Distraction capture — a 5-second parking lot for off-task thoughts, so you note them without chasing them; (3) Closure — end every block knowing what got done, so scattered effort becomes a clear weekly record.

Question 4

How is onelane different from a time tracker like Toggl or RescueTime?

Accepted Answer

Time trackers measure where your time went; onelane prevents the drift in the first place. Rather than logging activity for a report, onelane actively protects single-tasking during the block, lets you park distractions without breaking focus, and forces closure at the end. It is anti-drift, not analytics — closer to a focus guardrail than a stopwatch.

Question 5

Who is onelane for?

Accepted Answer

onelane is for operators and builders running more than one serious thing — for example a full-time job alongside trading, a SaaS, or deliberate learning. They are ambitious and self-directed but lose momentum to context-switching, and they won't tolerate heavy manual logging, so every action in onelane takes under five seconds.

Question 6

What is a 'lane' in onelane?

Accepted Answer

A lane is a life domain — like your job, a side business, trading, learning, or the gym. Each lane has its own color and a flexible weekly hour budget, and focused time is distance travelled. The core rule is to stay in one lane at a time, so each priority gets its own protected attention instead of bleeding into the others.

Question 7

Can I capture a distraction without unlocking my phone?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Mid-block, you can long-press onelane's lock-screen notification, type the thought, and it drops straight into your parking lot — no unlock, no app-switch, no leaving your lane. You triage everything you parked later, when the focus block is done.

Question 8

What platforms does onelane support?

Accepted Answer

onelane is available for both iOS and Android. Your plan, lanes, focus sessions, and weekly review sync across your devices.

Question 9

Is onelane free?

Accepted Answer

onelane is free to download on the App Store and Google Play. You can plan your week, run focus sessions, capture distractions, and review your progress without a subscription.

Question 10

Does onelane track or surveil me?

Accepted Answer

No. onelane is honest by design — it works on self-report, not surveillance. There is no background activity monitoring; you tell it what you worked on, and it reflects your week back to you. Its philosophy is progress over perfection: hitting about 70% of an ambitious plan counts as a win, and a single miss never resets you to zero.

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