I’ve tested a lot of software tools over the years designed to block distractions and keep you focused. None of them work perfectly, mostly because of context. Reddit, for example, is something I should generally avoid during the workday, so I tend to block it—this is a good decision for me overall. The problem is that sometimes the only place I can find a particular piece of information online is in a Reddit thread, meaning that to get that information I need to turn off my distraction-blocking tool. Then I inevitably end up down some kind of rabbit hole. This is the exact problem Fomi, a macOS distraction-blocking tool, is built to solve. The application asks you what you’re working on, then watches everything you do on your Mac desktop—every app you open—and uses AI to analyze what’s on your screen. The tool can tell, from context, whether you’re using a particular website productively or as a distraction. Zach Yang, part of the team behind the app, tells me on Discord he dreamed up the …