Aarekh
For researchers and anyone on a long project

Focus today.
See the whole journey.

A focus timer, your tasks, daily notes, a reading library, a citation checker, shared Gantt charts and a long-range tracker for your degree or project, in one calm app. Open it in the morning, keep it beside your work all day.

Free, nothing to install Your data stays in your account Export any time
Everything in one place

The few tools a long project actually needs

No dashboards to configure and no integrations to set up. Each part knows about the others, so a focus block, its task, your notes and your progress all line up on their own.

A timer that keeps going

Focus blocks and Pomodoro on wall-clock time. It survives page changes, sleep and tabs, and logs the session when it ends.

Focusing24:13auto-logged

Tasks the timer talks to

Press Focus on a task and its minutes add up by themselves, so you always know where the time actually went.

Chapter 3 draft2h 05m
Reviewer replies35m

Daily notes you can search

One scratchpad per day with timestamps. Every past day stays searchable from any page, so that one idea is never lost.

…calibration drift after ~20 min, worth a fixed recheck

Your journey, month by month

Name your degree or project, set a target date, and watch each month fill in. Milestones and deadlines count down on the Home page.

A library that helps you remember

Papers, datasets, books and labs with importance, takeaways and memory cards you can actually review.

Attention Is All You Need

List 100, with an Up next

Write down a hundred things you want to do in life, then line a few up for the coming months and tick them off.

See the northern lightsMar 2027
Run a half marathonNov 2026

RefChecker for your citations

Paste your LaTeX and .bib to catch unused entries, missing keys and duplicates before you submit, with charts by year and venue. Your paper never leaves the browser.

Unused bib entries7
Missing from bib2

Your tools, one keystroke away

Keep the sites you open every day in one searchable launcher, grouped your way. Type a few letters and press Enter.

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New · Gantt charts

Plan it together with your group

Lay out a paper, a thesis chapter or a lab project on a timeline and share it with everyone involved. One plan, many people - each sees their own action items and can comment where it matters.

Plan a project
  • Shared with your group. Invite your team by email and choose who can comment and who can edit. Everyone works on the same live plan.
  • Comments and chat. Discuss any task right on it, or the whole plan in the chart's chat, with an unread count so nothing slips by.
  • Stories, tasks and subtasks. The project, its phases and each person's action items, each with a lead, a status and room for notes.
  • Linked tasks that reschedule themselves. Drag a bar and the tasks waiting on it move along.
  • Notified and on record. Invites, comments and assignments show up under the bell, and the edit history shows who changed what.
aarekh · Gantt
Soil moisture paperYour chart · shared with 3 peopleDaysWeeksMonths24TASKDAYSDONE512192629162330Oct 2026Nov 2026DecSoil moisture paperOngoingR62d39%Literature reviewClosedR12d100%Search & screenClosedR6d100%Search & screenSynthesis notesClosedA8d100%Synthesis notesFieldworkOngoingG25d44%Site setupClosedG5d100%Site setupField surveyOngoingG12d50%Field surveyInterviewsOpenS8d0%InterviewsAnalysisOpenS13d0%Clean dataOpenS5d0%Clean dataRun modelsOpenR8d0%Run modelsWritingOpenR12d0%Draft paperOpenR8d0%Draft paperTeam reviewOpenA4d0%Team review‹ FieldworkSubtask×Field surveySoil moisture readings at 24 sites, twice a week.- Probes calibrated during site setup- GPS and a photo with every readingProtocol: shared drive › fieldwork › v2Start22/10/2026End02/11/2026StatusOngoingAssigneeGgopal@team.orgUnderFieldworkProgress 50%12 days (8 working) 7 days leftDeleteSaveLINKED TASKSStarts afterSite setup ×ThenInterviews ×COMMENTSAanita@team.orgCan we add two sites near the river?Ggopal@team.orgYes - adding them this week.
Who it's for

Made for work that takes months, not minutes

PhD students

Track the years-long thesis, the next deadline and today's writing block together.

Researchers

Keep reading, notes and experiments in one place, with time spent on each, and plan the project with your group.

Students

B.Tech, M.Tech or exam prep: a daily goal and a semester-long view.

Anyone on a long goal

A book, a job search, a side project - anything with a finish line.

How it works

Set up in under a minute

01

Create an account

Just an email and a password. Your data is private to your account and you can export it any time.

02

Name your journey

PhD, M.Tech, a job search - give it a start and a target date. You can move the date whenever you like.

03

Start a focus block

Pick a task, press Start, and work. Everything else - totals, streaks, the journey - fills in as you go.

Ready for a calmer, more focused day?

Free to use, nothing to install. Sign up in a few seconds and start your first focus block right away.

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