Kernel Focus

Other timers record how long you sat. Kernel records what you got done. One seed is one round of focus. While it runs, a crack spreads across the shell — that is the only progress there is. No ring, no bar, no percentage. When the crack runs out the shell splits: KRAK. It is the one sound this app ever makes. Then it asks the question the other timers never ask: what was the kernel? Forty words. Three pages. One section of the draft. That line is the point. The minutes were only how you got there. THE JAR Every seed you crack leaves a shell, and the shells drop into a jar. Fill it and the jar seals itself and goes onto the shelf. Shells go in and never come out — you can clear your records, but you cannot tidy them. PUT ONE DOWN AND IT STILL COUNTS Stop early and you get a dud: an empty shell. It goes into the jar like any other. No cross, no red, no sound. There are no streaks here, so…