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The best of this kind of apps I've found is Focus for Mac[1]. It works at the OS level, allows you to block apps and sites, and doesn't get disabled if you restart the computer. A downside is that it's not free. [1] https://heyfocus.com/
Bought that one, but it's seriously slow and somehow fucks up my network stack.
Maybe this is the wrong thread for this comment, but I'm wondering if I'm alone in this. Anyone else find they procrastinate for reasons another than a habitual need to check e.g. reddit/HN? I find for myself, it's very rarely that I'm procrastinating without any reason, but instead that I'm actively avoiding whatever it is I think I should be doing for any number of reasons. The list includes: * I don't have a clear…
Maybe this is the wrong thread for this comment, but I'm wondering if I'm alone in this. Anyone else find they procrastinate for reasons another than a habitual need to check e.g. reddit/HN? I find for myself, it's very rarely that I'm procrastinating without any reason, but instead that I'm actively avoiding whatever it is I think I should be doing for any number of reasons. The list includes: * I don't have a clear…
Very astute... I agree. I NEVER procrastinate if I am on a roll and have a strong grasp of things, say 80% of a project. Theres always that 20% though, maybe 10% that can be extremely challenging when you're right at that extremely complicated bit and you just spaz out and just open Facebook, reddit compulsively until you can get your footing. I've been doing this the last 3 days :(
There will be literally days sometimes where I just can't get past a "block". Generally they come at points where I need to start something new, or work on the next "phase" of a project, and I just can't get started.
But then something will "click" and i'll be hyperfocused on it, and before I know what happened it's 7pm and even if I stop now my mind won't let me stop thinking about it. I'll lay in bed thinking about it, i'll dream about the project, i'll be excited to get to work in the morning to do what my mind was toying with the night before.
And then i'll start to "clean up", start to dot all the i's and cross all the t's and i'll get it to a point where that part is "done", then i'm back at square one.
There's a few of these plugins. What I actually want is a plugin that makes the time wasting sites unbearably slow. This way if I need to check something on one of these sites, I can do so without disabling the plugin. Maybe you can do something with increasing latency the longer you stay on the site.
There's an extension called Delayed Gratification that just introduces a 30-second delay for the initial loading of sites for which it is enabled.
I noticed I can visit same websites (twitter, reddit, HN) few times in the span of 5 minutes. And I don't usually even notice that, it's like a habit. To help me break the loop I made this extension. It only has basic functionality right now, and I want to add some form of statistics, and maybe more in depth personalization tools. Apart from that, I also plan to port it at least to Firefox, but may look into Edge and…
Maybe this is the wrong thread for this comment, but I'm wondering if I'm alone in this. Anyone else find they procrastinate for reasons another than a habitual need to check e.g. reddit/HN? I find for myself, it's very rarely that I'm procrastinating without any reason, but instead that I'm actively avoiding whatever it is I think I should be doing for any number of reasons. The list includes: * I don't have a clear…
I know your first 2 points too well. Most people would advise you to, calmly, break the task at hand into small tasks/steps. Personally, my problem is that the tasks are too high level (maybe an epic), which makes them overwhelming. By breaking them into easy-to-do-steps that forces you to plan your solution (1st point) and understand the problem (2nd point). You should break them into SMART goals (you've probably he…
Yea, this seems to be the biggest takeaway from what everyone is saying here. I've tried to do this in the past and found that I don't do a good job of managing the list -- at some point, I'll just forget to add things to it or mark things off when I'm done; it's easier to just do them, right? But you're right, this is the right answer, if for no other reason than that it forces me to organize my thoughts, something I've noticed I'm bad at.
> You should break them into SMART goals (you've probably heart about this concept already).
Yea, I think this is key. When I do write a list, it's usually too abstract or in way too large chunks. What I'm trying now: put those large things down at the start of the day, then break them down when I decide to tackle that 'project'. I shouldn't start working until I've made the effort to break things down into atomic steps.
> Physically ticking off the item (pen and paper) is even better.
You know, I've never tried this... I'll give it a shot and see if that goes better than a list in vim.
> Meditation is also good to sharpen your focus.
Exactly how I narrowed down the vague feeling of 'agh, too much to do' in the first place :)
I noticed I can visit same websites (twitter, reddit, HN) few times in the span of 5 minutes. And I don't usually even notice that, it's like a habit. To help me break the loop I made this extension. It only has basic functionality right now, and I want to add some form of statistics, and maybe more in depth personalization tools. Apart from that, I also plan to port it at least to Firefox, but may look into Edge and…
* As you said - statistics. I'd like to know how many times I've tried accessing a site, and if I went through with it
* More scheduling options (by the day, disjoint periods)
* Safari extension
Thanks for making this!
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I know your first 2 points too well. Most people would advise you to, calmly, break the task at hand into small tasks/steps. Personally, my problem is that the tasks are too high level (maybe an epic), which makes them overwhelming. By breaking them into easy-to-do-steps that forces you to plan your solution (1st point) and understand the problem (2nd point). You should break them into SMART goals (you've probably he…
> Most people would advise you to, calmly, break the task at hand into small tasks/steps. Yea, this seems to be the biggest takeaway from what everyone is saying here. I've tried to do this in the past and found that I don't do a good job of managing the list -- at some point, I'll just forget to add things to it or mark things off when I'm done; it's easier to just do them, right? But you're right, this is the right…
I love your style though.
Question to extension devs: When Chrome warns me that an extension can "read all the websites I visit" does that mean it can also send that info to an external server, or just that the sandboxed extension on my local machine can read that data?
I need to read all websites you visit, to check them against your blocked list. I do not save any data outside of local storage on chrome. In fact I am pro-privacy, so I opted out of using chrome.sync, to sync the data between Chromes on different devices. Because it's 3rd party cloud.
Since I made this extension open-source, you can check if my claims are true here: https://bitbucket.org/redpandaua/distractoff
(Sorry for messy code, 1st time real JS development for me, refactoring and documenting is on it's way.)
Great concept! These days I just block sites in my hosts file, but I also developed a Chrome extension based on the concept of "regulated distraction", Morphine: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/morphine/fbnpehpbo... Also open source on GitHub: https://github.com/tkazec/morphine