Focus Assist : Focus without distractions

With the Apr 2018 Update, Windows is introducing Focus Assist, a feature to stay focused without distractions. Today while in front of screens, we spend much of the time on social media.

In the workplace, the average amount of time people spend on any single event before being interrupted or switching tasks is about three minutes (outside of meetings). Since the average person needs about 23 minutes to regroup after being interrupted, we see our productivity and creativity diminished.

Focus Assist feature will help you stay in the zone. Turn on Focus Assist whenever you want to get things done without distractions, like social media or other notifications.Or it can be scheduled to turn on Automatically during certain times when you need focused time. Like, it can be customised for getting only the priority items like alarms when you want to focus on your work. After that one can get the summary of what had came through during that time, whether notifications, mails etc.

[Update 16 Mar 2019] : Some new options have been added now to Focus Assist. Like
a new option to automatically turn off notifications when you are using an app in full screen mode. For example you are watching a movie on your PC in full screen mode and do not want to be disturbed.