🚪 Doorway pause

1. It shows during a running session on a site from your "Distracts me" list, or on a short-video feed while the short-video rule is on. It never shows on browser pages, "Part of my work" sites or pages you marked, during a break, or while you're outside Chrome.

2. It shows once each time you arrive in a tab. Reloading, swiping through Shorts or going a page deeper on the same site doesn't repeat it, but leaving and coming back does.

3. The screen says "A pause before <site>" (or "A pause before short videos"). A breathing circle ("Breathe in… …and out") lasts 3, 5 (the default) or 8 seconds, with "You're working on <goal>" below it. Below it are a big "Not now — back to my goal" button (+10 XP) and "Continue anyway", which unlocks after the breath. Videos and sounds on the page wait, and the breath starts over if you switch tabs.

4. The first 3 times each session, "Not now" pays +10 XP and shows a "Good call!" toast on your goal's page. After that it still takes you back, without XP or a toast. It takes you back to your last related page. A tab opened just for the detour closes, and a tab with its own history steps back. If nothing related was open yet, the tab closes; the screen says "This tab will close."

5. "Continue anyway" (or Esc, once the breath is over) lets that site be. There's no doorway pause there for 10 minutes. If you hadn't had a reminder yet during this detour, the usual grace period before one starts from that moment.

6. Keyboard focus stays on the two buttons, and page shortcuts wait. Browser shortcuts with Ctrl, Alt or Cmd still work. With reduced motion, the ripples are hidden.

Settings: Settings → Doorway pause, on by default. Pause length is 3, 5 or 8 seconds, with 5 as the default.