Comment on My Chrome Extension DistractionBlockerComments−thingsilearned15yI was a co-founder of 8aweek.com (YCW08) which was a similar concept for firefox.See screen shots: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6562/The trouble about doing it for one browser is that your other browsers quickly come into use.One system wide fix is to edit your hosts file: http://thingsilearned.com/2007/05/04/combating-internet-addi...but it only blocks you from sites instead of giving you nice time limits. And it becomes too easy to change back.I wish there was something that offered the limit functionality but for all browsers/access but currently i know of nothing.RescueTime (YC W08)'s Get Focused app is the best implementation of this I've seen.−csouthOP15yYou sparked off an interesting conversation with myself and a developer friend about just how to do this and I think we have the answer... Stay tuned.
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I was a co-founder of 8aweek.com (YCW08) which was a similar concept for firefox.
See screen shots: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6562/
The trouble about doing it for one browser is that your other browsers quickly come into use.
One system wide fix is to edit your hosts file: http://thingsilearned.com/2007/05/04/combating-internet-addi...
but it only blocks you from sites instead of giving you nice time limits. And it becomes too easy to change back.
I wish there was something that offered the limit functionality but for all browsers/access but currently i know of nothing.
RescueTime (YC W08)'s Get Focused app is the best implementation of this I've seen.
You sparked off an interesting conversation with myself and a developer friend about just how to do this and I think we have the answer... Stay tuned.