Digital stillness that doesn’t cut you off.

We built IdleNe because we couldn’t keep up anymore — too many pings, too many tabs, too many half-thoughts. It’s not a detox app, not a blocker. It’s more like quiet background air for your online life — something that keeps you here but lets your brain rest for a minute.
It links with your calendar, senses when you’re focused, and quietly filters interruptions. You stay visible, reachable — just not available for noise.

Learn what “digital rest” actually means

Philosophy

Why We Built It

We love tech. We just stopped liking the way it owns our attention. Every app wants “a minute of your time.” That’s twenty hours by Friday. IdleNe came out of that frustration — a way to stay online but quieter, like closing the door halfway instead of vanishing.
No dashboards shouting “focus achieved.”
No productivity badges.
Just a bit of breathing space between you and everything blinking at you.
It’s not about doing more. It’s about feeling human again.

What It Does

How It Works (in plain English)

IdleNe slips into your usual tools and sets a sort of digital “do not poke” aura around you.

Passive Mode

Turns on automatically when your calendar says “focus time” or “personal hours.” It talks to Google or Outlook so you don’t have to.
Soft Status Layer

Lets Slack, Discord, or Telegram show that you’re alive, just busy. People get it — they wait.
Quiet Windows

Short breaks you can trigger anytime — ten minutes, maybe thirty — before your brain melts.
Mind Buffer

A small text pad that catches stray ideas while you’re resting. No pressure to format them.
Weekly Map

Shows how much of your week is signal vs silence. Sometimes the graph just says: “please stop.”

Compatibility

You don’t have to move anywhere.

IdleNe just plugs into what you already use:

Slack, Discord, Telegram
Google Calendar, Outlook
Notion and Obsidian (for note syncing)
macOS bar and Android widget

We’re testing iMessage and Teams next:

iMessage
Microsoft Teams

No creepy extensions, no hidden daemons. Just a small cloud app doing its job quietly.

Use Cases

Who’s Using It

We didn’t expect this mix of people: Designers, devs, writers, policy folks — even a couple of professors who said it “felt oddly polite.”

“Passive mode keeps me in the zone without disappearing from Slack. Weirdly liberating.”

Sara
UX researcher (Copenhagen)
“My teammates finally stopped assuming I was mad at them when I didn’t reply for ten minutes.”

Jules
developer (Ghent)
“It made me notice how much noise I thought was ‘normal.’ Turns out it isn’t.”

Anita
researcher (Amsterdam)
“Passive mode keeps me in the zone without disappearing from Slack. Weirdly liberating.”

Sara
UX researcher (Copenhagen)
“My teammates finally stopped assuming I was mad at them when I didn’t reply for ten minutes.”

Jules
developer (Ghent)
“It made me notice how much noise I thought was ‘normal.’ Turns out it isn’t.”

Anita
researcher (Amsterdam)

FAQ

Let’s Clear Things Up

Is this a blocker or a tracker?
Neither. Think of it as an in-between — it pauses the world just enough to help you think.
Can I still check messages?
Yeah. IdleNe doesn’t ban you, it just turns off the shouting part.
How’s it different from Do Not Disturb?
DND hides you. IdleNe lets people see you’re around, just not instantly available.
Will others know I’m using it?
They’ll see a small passive ring or status line. Or not, if you’d rather stay ghostly.
Does it save my stuff?
Everything stays local unless you flip the sync switch. Then it uses encrypted storage — we don’t sell or log anything.

Try IdleNe

We’re testing the beta for web and Android. iOS is halfway through TestFlight.

If you want to try it or tell us why this whole idea is weird, email us. We answer (slowly).

hello@idlene.site

Tallinn, Estonia

Try IdleNe (Web Beta)