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Re:Show HN my christmas project: Focus.app, cut off your Int... by Detrus on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @06:23PM (#2069017)
Isn't there an OSX app that does this?

I remember people on an extremely distracting forum using it, ultimately it doesn't work. Those same people are still spending a lot of time on that forum, they've stopped turning it on.

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Re:Show HN my christmas project: Focus.app, cut off your Int... by trampsymphony on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @07:11PM (#2069188)
You may be thinking of Concentrate (http://getconcentrating.com)

Also worth noting, RescueTime has a "Get Focused" feature that blocks any sites that you have marked as unproductive (for a specified number of minutes).

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Re:Show HN my christmas project: Focus.app, cut off your Int... by grep on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @06:29PM (#2069034)
SelfControl
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Re:Show HN my christmas project: Focus.app, cut off your Int... by benofsky on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @06:36PM (#2069055)
Hadn't seen that, only a pay for app (and I'm cheap :))! Anyway, Focus is tailored perfectly for me, hope some other people can find use out of it too.

Edit: Clarification (I'm sorry I can't reply to your comment, it won't let me), I meant I had only seen a pay for app and not this one.

Edit 2: (reply to comment also) also doesn't appear to have exceptions, maybe I'm wrong.

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Re:Show HN my christmas project: Focus.app, cut off your Int... by wtn on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @07:36PM (#2069258)
Self Control does the same thing and it's been open source on Github since March 2009.

http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/

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Re:Show HN my christmas project: Focus.app, cut off your Int... by benofsky on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @09:17PM (#2069527)
BTW Person I replied to, changed their comment after I replied and I can no longer edit mine. Also, I was wrong about the exceptions: sorry bout that.
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