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One thing to help with sleep that is https://freedom.to/ https://freedom.to/, which you can use to make a list of websites to hard-block and then schedule them

One thing to help with sleep that is https://freedom.to/ https://freedom.to/, which you can use to make a list of websites to hard-block and then schedule them to be blocked either 1) now through 8hours from now 2) every SMTWRarsday from 11:30pm-8:30am

fao_ 10y ago
Or have cron jobs that swap out /etc/hosts with pre-prepared replacements
PeterisP 10y ago
I have a problem with all these website-blocking tools that I want them to behave differently than they do, perhaps you can suggest something? The issue is that I want to block only the main, 'browsing' pages while allowing deep links to that same site. For example, I want to block reddit, when googling some question turns out an answer that's on a niche subreddit I've never seen, I need to be able to read it. However, the site blockers I've tried require me to unblock the whole site or turn them off, and thus become pointless.
- afarrell 10y ago
  Hmm... That is an interesting problem, but I've not found anything. You would need some sort of proof-of-work for it to make behavioral sense though.
  - PeterisP 10y ago
    I don't think that proof-of-work is needed - these are different models of operation; reading an article (which is ok) vs browsing for more articles (which is not).
- smelterdemon 10y ago
  With StayFocusd at least, you can whitelist subreddits while blocking the main site.
  - PeterisP 10y ago
    I want to blacklist only the main site - Stayfocusd was a particular example, I got some google results on subreddits that I never knew existed and couldn't have been in a whitelist. I'm rather going for the reading vs scanning distinction - even there I would want the particular subreddit main page to remain blocked to prevent the procrastinating pattern of checking an interesting place to see if there's something new interesting. Similarly, the main news.ycombinator.com should be blocked but visiting particular pages from e.g. a weekly digest email would be useful.
- telotortium 10y ago
  If you have the patience to manually blacklist URLs, you can do this pretty easily with a regex-based site blocker. (My favorite for Chrome is Simple Blocker, which doesn't document that it uses regexes but in fact does: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/simple-blocker/akfbkbiialncppkngofjpglbbobjoeoe https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/simple-blocker/akf...). For example, the following blacklist regex patterns block the Reddit front page and the main page of any subreddits and multireddits, but still let you navigate to individual threads: https://(www|np).reddit.com/?$ https://(www|np).reddit.com/r/[^/]+/?$ https://(www|np).reddit.com/user/[^/]+/m/[^/]+/?$
  - PeterisP 10y ago
    Thank you, this has been really helpful for me and my habits.

fao_ 10y ago

Or have cron jobs that swap out /etc/hosts with pre-prepared replacements

PeterisP 10y ago

I have a problem with all these website-blocking tools that I want them to behave differently than they do, perhaps you can suggest something? The issue is that I want to block only the main, 'browsing' pages while allowing deep links to that same site. For example, I want to block reddit, when googling some question turns out an answer that's on a niche subreddit I've never seen, I need to be able to read it. However, the site blockers I've tried require me to unblock the whole site or turn them off, and thus become pointless.

afarrell 10y ago
Hmm... That is an interesting problem, but I've not found anything. You would need some sort of proof-of-work for it to make behavioral sense though.
- PeterisP 10y ago
  I don't think that proof-of-work is needed - these are different models of operation; reading an article (which is ok) vs browsing for more articles (which is not).
smelterdemon 10y ago
With StayFocusd at least, you can whitelist subreddits while blocking the main site.
- PeterisP 10y ago
  I want to blacklist only the main site - Stayfocusd was a particular example, I got some google results on subreddits that I never knew existed and couldn't have been in a whitelist. I'm rather going for the reading vs scanning distinction - even there I would want the particular subreddit main page to remain blocked to prevent the procrastinating pattern of checking an interesting place to see if there's something new interesting. Similarly, the main news.ycombinator.com should be blocked but visiting particular pages from e.g. a weekly digest email would be useful.
telotortium 10y ago
If you have the patience to manually blacklist URLs, you can do this pretty easily with a regex-based site blocker. (My favorite for Chrome is Simple Blocker, which doesn't document that it uses regexes but in fact does: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/simple-blocker/akfbkbiialncppkngofjpglbbobjoeoe https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/simple-blocker/akf...). For example, the following blacklist regex patterns block the Reddit front page and the main page of any subreddits and multireddits, but still let you navigate to individual threads: https://(www|np).reddit.com/?$ https://(www|np).reddit.com/r/[^/]+/?$ https://(www|np).reddit.com/user/[^/]+/m/[^/]+/?$
- PeterisP 10y ago
  Thank you, this has been really helpful for me and my habits.