Zenyth

We jump between ten different Chrome tabs, a Slack window, and our phone pinging us all day. When you actually need to sit down and do hard, focused work, your digital environment is fighting against you, desperate for your attention.

I wanted a digital workspace that does the exact opposite. Something beautiful, completely distraction-free, that actively helps you settle into a state of flow by combining the tools you need—tasks, timers, and auditory landscapes. No popups, no social mechanics.

Knowledge Workers — who find themselves context-switching constantly and want a central place to run their Pomodoro sessions or deep work blocks.

The approach was to strip away absolutely everything that doesn't serve the core purpose. The UI needed to be stunning yet nearly invisible. I opted for a highly polished, interactive experience where animations feel physical and smooth, making the act of completing a task or starting a timer incredibly satisfying.

We combined a robust to-do list with a precise Pomodoro timer, and layered in customizable ambient audio (rain, coffee shop, white noise) directly into the app using Howler.js, so you don't even need to open Spotify and get distracted by algorithmic playlists.

Since Zenyth is a personal productivity tool, keeping it fast means keeping the state on the client. I heavily leveraged Zustand for complex local state management. The timers and audio playbacks need to stay perfectly synced, even when React re-renders, which required careful attention to `useEffect` lifecycles and decoupling the heavy audio logic from the UI layer.