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Re: Tell HN: My best productivity hack

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Post by BryBran »

There are two things I like to do: 1) Avoid reading the news in the morning -- it's a rabbit hole that can suck you in and crush productivity. And, 2) Move my phone from my pocket to the deep part of my bag -- this helps me avoid the desire to check it every 15 minutes.

Re: Tell HN: My best productivity hack

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Post by durrrrrrrrrr »

Kluny wrote: post #17
garrettgrimsley wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it routes requests for those hostnames to your local computer.

It doesn't work though. All of those sites have backup domains that easily allow you to access them. To properly block all of facebook, you have to block something like 30 domains.

It's not an anti-tracking thing.

It's so you can't log in and read stuff, or get sucked down a distracting click-hole of videos, jokes, chit-chat and bullshit. It breaks the reflexive bookmarks, links from other sources and general habitual url visiting.

Re: Tell HN: My best productivity hack

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Post by beilabs »

Installed a chrome plugin that restricts my access to all social media, Reddit and some news sites between 8am-6pm only allowing a total of ten minutes access through out the day. Massive time sink.

Also, got a whiteboard which I mark out the important tasks for the day. It's a bit messy at the moment though. If everything is important then nothing is important.

Re: Tell HN: My best productivity hack

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Post by ci5er »

decasteve wrote: post #27
ci5er wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see this kind of thing from time-to-time, and it baffles me. Surely, I know how to restore access. Why not ... just not go there? And if it's a problem (again, this baffles me, but no judgement - I binge drink on weekends which is surely worse), delete your accounts there?

It’s easy to fall into the habit of hitting ctrl+t when a browser is open and typing in some website that distracts you from what you should be focused on. That brief cannot-be-opened page is often enough to stop you so that you can reset your focus back to what it was you were supposed to be doing.

That makes sense. My downfall is double-clicking on a phrase, then right-clicking to search and then hours later...

Not quite the same, but it sounds similar...

Re: Tell HN: My best productivity hack

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Post by Trundle »

ci5er wrote: post #23
marikio wrote: post #10

Step 1: sudo nano /etc/hosts Step 2: Type at bottom: 127.0.0.1 facebook.com 127.0.0.1 youtube.com 127.0.0.1 twitter.com 127.0.0.1 instagram.com Step 3: ctrl+"O"

I see this kind of thing from time-to-time, and it baffles me. Surely, I know how to restore access. Why not ... just not go there? And if it's a problem (again, this baffles me, but no judgement - I binge drink on weekends which is surely worse), delete your accounts there?

Having to restore access gives you many more seconds of time between impulse and gratification where you can catch yourself in the process and have the internal "the fuck are you doing? Is that video even going to bring you a modicum of happiness? Get back to work and we can do something actually fun later you adhd fuck" talk.
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