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Think... Look around your screen right now. It's okay, we'll wait.

At this very moment, applications are fighting for your attention. Between chat windows, Finder windows, Web browser windows, and everything else, it's amazing any of us can concentrate at all. As it has become easier to multitask, we've become more likely to have two dozen windows on the screen at any given moment. Innovations like Expose makes finding what you want in the sea of visual stimuli easier, but they've done little to remove those distractions.

Focusing takes concentration, and concentration takes energy. You can only concentrate on so much at a time, and you can't create more energy. What we need to do is change how we work.

Let's limit our attention to one application--any application--at any time. Let's make it easy to change focus when we have to. Let's allow ourselves to bring other apps up quickly if we need them, but put them out of sight again just as quickly.

Think lets you rediscover how to focus, and get back to thinking.

WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.3: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later.

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Developer:Freeverse
Downloads:9,820
  - Version d/l:1,564
Utilities:Desktop
License:Free
Date:23 Dec 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel

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Jan 8 2010

RPITCAIRN  Crashes very time I try to use it. Running this latest version on a Macbook Pro, OS 10.6.2.  
(Version 1.3)

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Jan 4 2010

DR. GIRLFRIEND  This latest version is crashtastic.  
(Version 1.3)

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Sep 1 2009

BRENT MURRAY  This application does my soul a world of good. So simple, works perfectly, and lets you focus on one task at a time. Thank you for this!  
(Version 1.2)

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Sep 25 2008

JORDI VIDAL  It works beautifully on a computer with one screen! and sure for 99% of people's needs.

But there is place for improvement, and I am not alone:

I am writing a piece of research and I use two screens (my laptop and a side monitor).

I would like to have not ONE but TWO applications running, each on it's own screen.

Wouldn't it be cool to have one application on each screen? I'd like to have an application to view other source documents in order to proceed with my research writing.

Sure this scenario applies to other people who have to read and write, not just creative writing.

And surprisingly, there are a lot of people who use TWO monitors, at least in the environments where the company provides a desktop and the user has her/his own laptop.

Looking forward to see this application evolving with the need of the users!

Thanks guys for such a great little app!

Hint: the way to chose the applications is great! Why not have one of this controls on each screen?  
(Version 1.2)

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Jul 20 2008
*****

BOGEN  It's free, it certainly seems well implemented, it works as advertised. What more can you want?  
(Version 1.2)

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Apr 23 2008
*****

BABYFETT  Not sure what the last poster was talking about because in v1.2 you can certainly use the command + tab feature to switch between applications. I just tried both this app and Isolator and Think wins hands down. With Isolator if I was working in Word and wanted to switch between two documents, I couldn't. I'd have to turn off Isolator and then click on the second document window and then turn Isolator back on. Annoying. But with Think it's flawless and the interface is great and easy to use. Does exactly what it promises and does it great. And I love how you can bring up a guest application (to check mail while writing a Word document) and then just click back on the main application or the background the guest application is hidden away again. Love this. Improving my productivity to no end.   
(Version 1.2)

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Apr 9 2008

RAE  Pity this works as an app instead of a "plugin" in the system preference... This means that I have to swift between softwares within this application, in this way, I can't use the ordinary command + tab to change in between applications. So might not be all that good if u r frequently using keyboard to give command.

And iSolator does a much better job.  
(Version 1.2)

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Dec 19 2007

ZANGIEF  Now with Leopard, just use Spaces. If you don't have a tidy desktop, use the basic version of Desktopple (most people will be fine without the pro version anyway). It's what I do for my school work, and it works just fine. Pages and Desktopple in one space, music and anything else in the other three.  
(Version 1.2)

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Sep 1 2007

MILLCA  The developer link no longer works. Freeverse appears to no longer support Think. Does anyone know where Think went?  
(Version 1.1)

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Sep 1 2007

MACUPDATE ADMIN  I have no idea why Freeverse has apparently killed this app, but I found Think 1.1 and have posted it to MacUpdate servers, so at least it is still available to download.  
(Version 1.1)

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Apr 24 2007
****.

WOODEN BRAIN CONCEPTS  This works great for what it claims it does. I find it hysterical that it's made by Freeverse, the same culprits that make major game distractions that are to blame for untold months (in total) of mucking about. Now then, this would be ideal if it took over CMD-Tab from the system to switch apps, and/or if there were a global hotkey to activate it, and/or you could use the keyboard to switch apps. There seems to be a minor glitch with two monitors: sometimes it dims only one until you switch to it and mess with its controls.  
(Version 1.1)

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