Tried it and really liked it! Thank you!
Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing
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#122Hey HN, I've been working on a Chrome/Firefox extension called Intention to help me stay focused and not get distracted, and for me and my friends, we've found it more effective than other tools we've tried. The idea behind it is extremely simple: Commit to a time limit before using a distracting site. This prevents the two most common ways that we get sucked into distractions online: 1. Habitual navigation: Througho…
I really like this property: > Intention requests access only to the sites you select, not all sites. Very few add-ons implement it (talking about Firefox) but it makes the add-on much more trustworthy.
I didn't know you could do it that way and I really like it as well. I'd love to implement it in my DelayWebpage firefox extension as well!
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#123these last 2 weeks me and my wife created a strict rule where we can't have any screens (laptops, phone, tablets) in a bedroom. now we don't browse while laying in bed in the morning or at night. this simple change cutdown on my addiction even when out of my bed room. When we go to our bedroom at night we know it means bed time, its a mental change. Also, at first you'll feel an urge to look at your phone at night, b…
I think what contributes the most to that bad habit is dependency on alarm clock app in our smartphones. I need to finally buy two alarm clocks with snooze and weekly schedule.
If you have an old dumb-phone without a sim-card you can use it as an alarm instead. For me it turned out to be cheaper and better!
Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing
#124Found a hack. Move focus to another window. Then timer stopped, but you can still use mouse wheel ;-)
Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think what contributes the most to that bad habit is dependency on alarm clock app in our smartphones. I need to finally buy two alarm clocks with snooze and weekly schedule.
If you have an old dumb-phone without a sim-card you can use it as an alarm instead. For me it turned out to be cheaper and better!
Should uninstall any browsers too :)
Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing
#126This but an Android launcher
There are some nice "minimal" launchers out there that restrict you to essentially a phone, camera, and messaging app. It adds a hurdle to accessing the apps that are easy to waste time in. While now 100% the same as this, I've found introducing some extra friction can go a long way in curbing unwanted behaviors
I'm looking for something that asks me what I want to do before letting me open any app on the phone. Then it could periodically ask if I have accomplished my goal. "You have been "reading hacker news" for 30 minutes, are you still "reading hacker news"? [No] [Yes- turns off phone]"
Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing
#127Hey HN, I've been working on a Chrome/Firefox extension called Intention to help me stay focused and not get distracted, and for me and my friends, we've found it more effective than other tools we've tried. The idea behind it is extremely simple: Commit to a time limit before using a distracting site. This prevents the two most common ways that we get sucked into distractions online: 1. Habitual navigation: Througho…
Just want to say thanks for this. I was using Leechblock before, but it would frequently navigate away from in-progress forms while I was writing longform comments and lose work, whereas Intention offers a modal prompt to extend the period.
Also appreciate that it only requires access to the sites I'm blocking.
Some stats I'd like to see on the prompt would be: how many times this hour/day/week/month I've extended the unlock period. This would help me nudge myself to stop doing it.
Good luck and never sell out!
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#128I love this idea and just installed it. However it falls into a similar problem I have found myself in with iphone's screen time. On my iphone I have found myself mindlessly clicking the "add 15 minutes" of screen time and typing in my 4 digit code so often that it is now just muscle memory to do so. Yes, I have no self control. Could you add a feature so you have to type in a pin to continue BUT the number pad is in…
How about having to hold the button for 5+ seconds before it activates?
Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like this a lot. What I've found that: - No breaks is bad. - It is even worse when a 10 min break turns out to be a 2h rabbit hole. But most of the current software does not address that. For example: - I use social media after midnight, and it does not stop me then but cuts the limit for the next day. - There is a nasty surprise when an app kicks me out, with no warning. So nasty (especially when I am in the middl…
I've yet to check out the OP's extension, but I've used a Firefox extension called LeechBlock before which (with some creativity) can achieve your bullet points as well. For the first I would set up one blocking profile to apply through early morning and a different profile (with the same sites) for the rest of the day; for the second LeechBlock lets you put a countdown timer in the corner of the screen so that at al…
I use Crackbook Revival (Chrome) which is similar in purpose. However instead of giving you a countdown timer (because "but 5 more minutes, mooooom") it never actually stops you from browsing, but instead slows down select sites with every page load. First loading a page is instantaneous. 100th time takes seconds which is frustrating enough to cause me to go off and do something else, but without the same anxieties that Leechblock causes.
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#130I am absolutely hopeless YouTube addict. The first review says you can set breaks compared to other blockers. I have Leechblock setup in a way with dynamic "breaks" I give myself 1,5 hours on YouTube and other blocked sites every 4 hours. Problem is I cheat myself by using the "overwrite feature to give me another 9 minutes again and again. I caught myself just switching to another browser its really really bad. How could this be different?