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for a while I used Charles as a system-wide proxy, with a "rewrite rule" that directs news.ycombinator.com to a similar page. related question - are there mac
by rubyrescue 16y ago
for a while I used Charles as a system-wide proxy, with a "rewrite rule" that directs news.ycombinator.com to a similar page.
related question - are there mac utilities that can do this during configurable hours of the day?
- Sam_Odio 16y agoConcentrate might be close to what you're looking for: http://getconcentrating.com http://getconcentrating.com My guess is that you could couple that with AppleScript and an iCal alarm to start Concentrate every morning.
- paulbaumgart 16y agoRescueTime comes with a Focus mode and a pre-seeded but configurable list of distracting websites: http://www.rescuetime.com/tour http://www.rescuetime.com/tour You don't set hours of the day, but you specify how long you want to "Get Focused". And you can't close the utility via the GUI to keep you honest; it takes a manual SIGTERM to close while in Focus mode. I've found it very useful, though unfortunately browser support can be flaky. It seems like every major browser release breaks the website tracking and blocking functionality and it takes a few weeks to a few months for the RescueTime utility to catch up. If you don't like using uncommon OS/browser configurations, you'll probably have better luck, though.
- wwortiz 16y agohttp://macfreedom.com/ http://macfreedom.com/ (looks like you would have to configure the hours manually though.)
- Jasber 16y agoI accomplish this with a simple Python script: http://github.com/bradjasper/focus http://github.com/bradjasper/focus I felt guilty writing a script to stop from procrastinating, but it has actually helped tremendously.
- yanowitz 16y agoGreat chrome plugin: stay focus'd that let's you designate verbotten sites, with x minutes a day allowed across all of them.