Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that helps battle impulsive procrastination
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Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that helps battle impulsive procrastination
#2I 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 Opera.
Would love your feedback, thanks!
Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that helps battle impulsive procrastination
#3I 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…
I really like the simplicity of this. I find myself doing the same thing sometimes, e.g. opening HN almost unconsciously and then closing the tab immediately. Who knows, this might help break the habit!
Edit: (A simple suggestion that comes down to personal taste) It would be cool if I could see if I have DistractOff set to 'Stop' by just looking at the icon (in a similar fashion to how adblock shows the status via its icon) so I don't have to click into the plugin to see if it's on. But like I said, that comes down to personal taste.
Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that helps battle impulsive procrastination
#4I have been using the Go Fucking Work extension for the past few months. It works well.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/go-fucking-work/hi...
Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that helps battle impulsive procrastination
#5Similar addon for Firefox: Leechblock. It lets you make collections of URLs and rules on how often you can visit them within x minutes, then it either blocks them completely or institutes a delay. I've found it helpful as I can easily whittle away my time aimlessly wandering the web (especially so with neverending pages).
Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that helps battle impulsive procrastination
#6If you were truly a procrastinator you would've posted this tomorrow morning.
Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that helps battle impulsive procrastination
#7There'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.
Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that helps battle impulsive procrastination
#8I 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…
This is nice. Better than /etc/hosts which I've used for this for a long time. Switching over to this.
Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that helps battle impulsive procrastination
#9Let me guess: You had some important work to do and this was the result?
Re: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that helps battle impulsive procrastination
#10I am using little snitch with a "No Distractions" profile, then use OSX's portable hotspot to connect to phone to have the same rules.
Gets rid of everything, including push notifications when set up right.