Separate the reference from the detour
A tutorial you need for the next step and a video you opened between tasks may happen in the same app. Before blocking YouTube, decide whether your planned work depends on it. Write down the reference you need and the part of the task it supports.
If you need YouTube throughout the session, an app-level block may be the wrong setup for that period. Watch the reference first, choose a different time for the boundary or leave the app available. The selection should serve the task.
Understand the app-level boundary
In Lesscue's design, choosing YouTube in a group means choosing the app. It does not distinguish Shorts, subscriptions, a particular channel, a lecture or a music video. There is no promised switch for blocking only one part of YouTube.
Always Allowed is also an app-level exception. Adding YouTube there makes it available across Lesscue's boundaries; it is not a way to permit one video while restricting the rest. Review the consequence before changing an active exception.
Give the group a clear use
In Block, save YouTube with the other apps you want to pause for this context. A name such as Video break or Study distractions can explain why the group exists. Avoid adding every entertainment app simply because the picker makes it possible.
For a single reading period, choose the group in Focus and set the duration. For repeated working hours, attach it to a schedule. The same group can be reused, while the timing remains attached to the session or schedule you selected.
Account for browser access
The YouTube app and YouTube in a browser are separate routes. Selecting the app does not automatically create a website restriction. Lesscue's current design should not be read as a promise to filter every browser or embedded player.
If the browser is essential for your work, think carefully before pausing the browser itself. That is a much broader choice than pausing a video app. The Safari guide walks through that decision.
Check what your timer recorded
At the end of a session, look at what you completed as well as the elapsed time. A timer cannot tell whether the reference helped, whether you followed it or whether the period contained uninterrupted work.
Lesscue keeps usage and focus history in separate views. A 50-minute plan is not immediately recorded as 50 minutes completed. The recording guide explains that difference with an early-finish example.
See the Lesscue design.
Explore app groups, routines and the Glass Wings focus scene.
