Re:Information is like snacks, money, and drugs to the brain
by VBprogrammer on Friday June 21, 2019 @03:54PM
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> but then I found myself using Safari to get around that allowance.
Ha, that resonates with me. I use a chrome extension to block a bunch of stuff at work. Which I soon discovered had an easily accessible toggle switch for turning it off. So I hacked the source to remove it.
Then I discovered it didn't work in private mode until I found a setting to enable that too.
At the moment I have no trivial way of turning it off. Except browsing on my phone!
Re:Information is like snacks, money, and drugs to the brain
by graeme on Saturday June 22, 2019 @12:06AM
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Thanks for the reminder about forest. I realized that with the widget view on ios + having an apple watch, it is more useful.
I can run some shortcuts and time trackers from widgets, start/stop timers etc and use the phone/watch for a bunch of practical stuff while working, but having the screen blocked from distractions by forest.
Hadn’t worked for me before as I missed those functions.
... but then I found myself using Safari to get around that allowance.
There's also Forest [2], which "gamifies" staying away from websites for a certain time. It's the Chrome extension version of the Forest iOS app [3] to stay away from your phone.
I like to think of StayFocusd as the stick, and Forest as the carrot.
[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stayfocusd/laankej...
[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/forest-stay-focuse...
[3] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/forest-stay-focused/id86645051...