# Anchor

> A local-first day planner and focus timer for Mac, iPhone and Apple Watch that schedules the day, captures what pulled you away, and explains the gap between plan and reality.

## When to use this

- Best fit: learning about Anchor — Plan the day. Protect the present. Learn what moved it.
- Best fit: checking Anchor availability, privacy, and support on the public landing
- Not a fit: accessing product functionality or user data through these public read-only pages
- Not a fit: API integrations beyond the read-only agent surfaces listed here

## Product boundaries

- No account required
- Distraction notes stay on-device or in your private iCloud
- No analytics or advertising SDK
- Not a website blocker
- Mac beta; not listed on the App Store yet

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## Public pages

- [Anchor](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/index.md): A local-first day planner and focus timer for Mac, iPhone and Apple Watch that schedules the day, captures what pulled you away, and explains the gap between plan and reality.
- [Your private notes are not our data.](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/privacy.md): The Anchor app is local-first and uses no analytics or advertising SDK. It never sends distraction notes to Significant Hobbies, a cloud model, or telemetry. This website has separate, limited analytics described below.
- [Support, without a maze.](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/support.md): Email hello@significanthobbies.com and you’ll get a reply from the person who built it.
- [Simple beta terms.](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/terms.md): Pre-release software for personal evaluation.
- [Access is part of the experience.](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/accessibility.md): Native Apple accessibility, not a separate mode.
- [Release status](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/release.md): Invite-only TestFlight and notarized Mac beta
- [The beta is taking shape.](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/testflight.md): We only link to Apple after the enrollment URL is verified.
- [Anchor journal](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/blog.md): Published product notes.
- [A practical taxonomy for schedule divergence](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/blog/a-practical-taxonomy-for-schedule-divergence.md): Learn how to categorize schedule divergence into deliberate changes, internal pulls, external interruptions, estimation errors, human needs, and unknown gaps.
- [Capturing Interruptions at the Moment They Happen](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/blog/capturing-interruptions-at-the-moment-they-happen.md): Learn how to capture daily interruptions exactly when they happen. Discover strategies for parking distractions, pausing effectively, and protecting your attention.
- [Combining habits, planning, and focus without extra gates](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/blog/combining-habits-planning-and-focus.md): How combining habits, schedule planning, and focus timing into a single operational loop creates a more realistic day plan and reduces friction.
- [Comparing a planned day with the day that actually happened](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/blog/comparing-a-planned-day-with-the-day-that-actually-happened.md): Learn how to compare your daily schedule with reality by treating divergence as data. Separate interruptions, estimation errors, and deliberate changes.
- [Designing an honest end-of-day schedule review](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/blog/designing-an-honest-end-of-day-schedule-review.md): Learn how to conduct an end-of-day schedule review that separates estimation errors, deliberate changes, and external interruptions without relying on moralizing adherence scores.
- [How to plan a realistic day instead of an ideal one](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/blog/how-to-plan-a-realistic-day-instead-of-an-ideal-one.md): Discover how to move past perfect schedules. Learn to plan realistically, capture interruptions, and understand why your lived day diverges from your planned one.
- [How to Resume Focus After Capturing an Interruption](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/blog/how-to-resume-focus-after-capturing-an-interruption.md): Learn a concrete method for handling interruptions: capture the distraction, make a clear decision to park or pause, and deliberately resume your planned focus.
- [Internal pulls vs external interruptions in daily planning](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/blog/internal-pulls-vs-external-interruptions-in-daily-planning.md): Understand the difference between external interruptions and internal pulls in daily planning. Learn how separating the two helps create a more realistic schedule.
- [Non-moralizing language for personal productivity review](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/blog/non-moralizing-language-for-personal-productivity-review.md): Learn how to review your daily schedule using non-moralizing language. A neutral, evidence-based approach helps you manage interruptions without guilt.
- [On-device tagging with a deterministic fallback](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/blog/on-device-tagging-with-a-deterministic-fallback.md): How Anchor uses Apple's on-device foundation model for privacy-first tagging, and falls back gracefully to a deterministic ruleset when AI isn't available.
- [Preserving unknown time instead of inventing an explanation](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/blog/preserving-unknown-time-instead-of-inventing-an-explanation.md): Discover why embracing explicitly unknown gaps in your schedule leads to better planning, honest reflection, and less guilt.
- [Why an Apple Watch focus app should act as a remote](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/blog/why-an-apple-watch-focus-app-should-act-as-a-remote.md): Discover why effective Apple Watch focus apps operate as simple remotes for capturing distractions and managing sessions, rather than tiny analytics dashboards.
- [Why distraction notes should never leave the device](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/blog/why-distraction-notes-should-never-leave-the-device.md): When an app asks what pulled you away from your work, the answer is often personal. Here is why Anchor keeps your distraction notes strictly on your device.
- [Why focus timers should derive elapsed time from the wall clock](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/blog/why-focus-timers-should-derive-elapsed-time-from-the-wall-clock.md): Learn why robust focus timers rely on absolute wall-clock timestamps rather than incrementing tick counts to survive device sleep, sync, and app backgrounding.

## Machine-readable

- [Full content](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/llms-full.txt): Bounded public page content
- [Markdown catalog](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/api/md/_catalog): All registered public routes
- [Agent catalog](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/api/ai): Existing discovery contract
- [AI usage policy](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/ai.txt): Permissions and attribution
- [Sitemap](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/sitemap.xml): Canonical HTML pages
- [OpenAPI](https://anchor.significanthobbies.com/openapi.json): Public API contract