Make your digital environment work for learning & focus.

We help your students and staff build the digital capability to shape their own environment, and make it part of everyday study and teaching.

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1.5+ hours savedevery day

That’s 33,000 hours/year per 100 students or staff, for learning, focus, and life.

For universities, schools & organisations

Trusted by 30+ institutions and organisations, including:

University
of Oxford

University of
Edinburgh

Santa Clara
University

Portobello High
School

London School
of Hygiene &
Tropical Medicine

Students and staff work on the screens that distract them.

Coursework, messages, video
and feeds all share one device.

Every2min

staff are interrupted by emails, notifications and ad-hoc digital meetings.

9in 10

students say their devices harm their productivity.

Microsoft Work Trend Index Special Report, 2025; Lyngs et al., 2024 (survey at Egedal Gymnasium).

Everyone’s solution is different.

It depends on the person and the task. Writing a report, collaborating on a project or getting better sleep each call for a different digital environment.

Build your own setup

YouYour taskWhat would you change?

We start with what someone is trying to do.

Our work grew out of more than a decade of research at Oxford into digital self-control. We train groups of students or staff, and also provide 24-7 online learning and support.

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Look at the task
What is the person trying to do, and what sits around it on the screen?
Change the setup
Remove feeds or reels, mute alerts, block nightly distractions, stop emails after hours, simplify designs, ...
Keep what helps
The setup stays after the programme. Our Digital Habits platform keeps solutions and guidance within reach.

What we provide

Integrated solutions that empower your students and staff to shape their digital lives around their needs, and measure the impact.

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Use the site without the feed.

Removes feeds, Shorts, Reels and other distracting parts of sites you still need.

Focus→

Keep distracting sites out of reach.

Set your own limits on the sites and apps that tend to pull you in.

Blocker→

Keep the task in view.

Your current task stays visible while you work.

To-Do→

Log in without picking up your phone.

Two-factor authentication from your computer, so the phone can stay away.

Phone-Free 2FA→

Make your inbox less overwhelmingComing soon

Read emails distraction-free and pause new ones when you need to focus.

Mail→

And more

We keep a large, curated library of effective tools from across the ecosystem — each one weighed against the research.

Tool library→

Institution-wide licences, open source, hosted in Europe.All tools →

Who we help

Universities, schools and organisations. You get a programme for your people, and a report on what changed.

We help people build

A healthier digital environmentRoom for focused workCalmer evenings and better sleepClear lines between work and restLess time lost to feedsA setup that fits how each person works

Universities and schools

E-learning, live workshops and facilitator training for students and staff, with impact measured as people take part.

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Organisations

Workshops and e-learning for teams, and training so your own people can run the sessions.

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A live impact dashboard comes with every programme

Follow reach, adoption, engagement and outcome while the programme runs, not months after it ends.

Ulrik Lyngs and Roxane Maar at the Techtopia recording

Latest · Techtopia 424

Children should build their social platforms.

Ulrik Lyngs and Roxane Maar joined IDA’s Techtopia with Rebuild founder Thomas Madsen-Mygdal and two young builders. The question is what happens when children stop accepting the platforms built for them.

In Danish.

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