Re:How to work an 8-hour day
by aantix on Friday April 18, 2008 @12:31AM
(#166972)
"Don't waste time."
You know what I finally did? I installed this cool little Firefox plugin called "Leechblock". I set it up so that I can only visit Hacker News, Digg, Reddit and all other time consuming websites between 8am-9am, noon - 1pm, and 5:30pm on, Monday through Friday
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476
I have a tendency to read one article which leads to another article which leads me to look something up on Wikipedia which leads me to tell my co-workers about my useless fact finding mission.
Not my browsing habits are restricted to very specific windows and it's really helped productivity wise.
Of course, I could always fire up Sarfari if I really needed to, but I just need to block out that temptation for now.
You know what I finally did? I installed this cool little Firefox plugin called "Leechblock". I set it up so that I can only visit Hacker News, Digg, Reddit and all other time consuming websites between 8am-9am, noon - 1pm, and 5:30pm on, Monday through Friday https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476
I have a tendency to read one article which leads to another article which leads me to look something up on Wikipedia which leads me to tell my co-workers about my useless fact finding mission.
Not my browsing habits are restricted to very specific windows and it's really helped productivity wise.
Of course, I could always fire up Sarfari if I really needed to, but I just need to block out that temptation for now.