FocusCrew

Glossary

Every word FocusCrew uses on screen, and what it actually means.

Session
One block of focused time. You choose how long — 5, 25, 50 or 75 minutes — and it is finished when you press done or the time runs out. The server measures how long it actually ran, not your browser.
Pomodoro
The original name for a 25-minute focus block, from a tomato-shaped kitchen timer. In FocusCrew a pomodoro is just a session; the word shows up because a task counts how many of them it has taken.
Task
Something you are working on. Link it to a session and its completed count goes up when the session finishes. Optional — you do not have to name your work to do it.
Crew
A small group, three or four people, who focus around the same time most days. It is the point of the product: the timer works alone, but showing up is easier when someone else is.
Crew code
How you join a crew — a short code like FC-7QK2M9 that a member sends you. It skips the letters people mishear, so it survives being read out loud. Typing it in any case, with or without the dash, works.
Recurring window
The days and time a crew has agreed to meet — "weekdays at 09:00", for example. It is a declared rhythm, not an alarm; nobody is marked absent.
Challenge
A goal with a deadline. A personal one is yours alone. A crew challenge is one shared number the whole crew works toward, and everyone’s sessions count toward the same total.
XP
Experience points, earned by finishing sessions — one per completed minute. XP is only ever awarded by the server for work it measured, which is why nobody can give themselves any.
Level
What your total XP adds up to. Level 2 arrives at 100 XP, level 5 at 1,000, level 10 at 4,500 — each level a bit longer than the last. It is calculated from your XP every time it is shown, so it can never disagree with it.
Streak
How many days in a row you have finished at least one session. Two sessions in one day is still one day. Miss a day and it starts again at one — your longest run stays on your profile either way.
Standings
A ranking by XP, either inside your crew or across everyone. It shows positions and nothing else: no gap to the person above, no marker for last place, and only the top 50 globally.
Badge
A one-off marker for a milestone — your first session, a hundred hours of focus, seven days running. Badges you have not earned are shown too, so you can see what exists.