Award-winning training and open-source tools to reduce digital distraction and focus on what matters.
Based on our 10+ years of peer-reviewed research at the University of Oxford.
+58%
better ability to focus
1.5+ hours/day
saved time
Trusted by leading universities and organisations to help students and staff reclaim their time and attention
Digital focus tools
Our open-source digital focus tools, and large, curated selection of solutions supported by research, make it easy and safe to redesign your digital life.
Our browser extension and app to eliminate any digital distraction with one click (feeds, Shorts, Reels, ...).
Our intuitive tool for blocking distracting apps and websites on your computer or phone when you need to focus.
Our simple todo app that keeps your current task visible while you work. Especially helpful for those of us with ADHD.
Our simple and secure browser extension for computer-based 2FA. Keep your phone out of sight and out of mind.
The workshop
The are hundreds of digital focus tools to create the digital life we want. It's overwhelming to find the right ones. We help your students and staff to:
Identify digital challenges and goals in work and personal life.
Discover digital focus tools and strategies tailored to individual needs.
Set up chosen solutions right away. Leave with a changed phone and a changed mindset.
The ReDD Workshop makes it easy and safe to create the digital life you want, thanks to letters from your past self, hands-on support from our experts in our Help! Café, and data-driven insights into your personal journey.
Letters from your past self
Hands-on support
Data-driven insights
RESEARCH-POWERED
The ReDD Workshop and our digital focus tools are based on our analyses of (so far) 600+ digital focus tools, 54,000+ user reviews, and 250+ interviews, and our decades of experience building open-source software used by 130,000+ people around the world.
The workshop format is based on continuous learning from 300+ workshops at 30+ universities, schools, and organisations, and best practices in behaviour change.
Next courses
In May 2019, Dr Ulrik Lyngs & Maureen Freed gathered 8 students in a dusty seminar room at an Oxford college with an ambitious goal: to help them regain control over their digital lives. What began as Ulrik‘s PhD research into digital distraction was evolving into the ReDD Workshop, a practical intervention to empower anyone to tailor their devices for productivity, wellbeing, and a balanced life.
From those humble beginnings, the ReDD Project grew organically through word-of-mouth and genuine need. We refined our approach through 250+ workshops, and published rigorous research showing that it works. Today, any organisation can train their own facilitators, enabling anyone to redesign digital life to meet their needs.
Workshop in 2024 at Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Public lecture series | Folkeuniversitetet, Copenhagen | Apr 2026
TicketsPanel | CPDP, Brussels | 21 May 2026, 11:50-13:05
Conference | AMOSSHE | 1-3 Jul 2026
Award | University of Oxford | Mar 2026
Support | ImpactU | Feb 2026
Talk | Maastricht University Brussels Hub | Feb 2026
Psychotherapist & mental health consultant
Former Deputy Head of Counselling, University of Oxford
First Class BA Experimental Psychology Graduate from University of Oxford
MSci Psychology & Philosophy student, University of Oxford
Head of the Human Centred Computing group, University of Oxford
Associate Professor at Section for Cognitive Systems, Technical University of Denmark
