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Yup, I'm a fan of Motion, and I'm glad they're also trying to help people spend time well! It's a big problem to tackle, and given that we're up against multi-b
by dkthehuman 6y ago
Yup, I'm a fan of Motion, and I'm glad they're also trying to help people spend time well! It's a big problem to tackle, and given that we're up against multi-billion dollar corporations, we can use all the help we can get. Motion inspired parts of Intention's design (e.g. the default unlock duration in Intention used to be 5 minutes, but I liked how Motion defaulted to 1 minute so I changed it).
Some key differences between Intention and Motion:
Product
- Intention lets you set a daily limit so that you're encouraged to limit your distracted browsing.
- To calculate remaining time, Intention uses active time (time actually spent on a site), not clock time (time passed since you unlocked a site).
- Intention displays its timer in the browser toolbar instead of directly on the page, which can block UI elements
Privacy
- Intention only requests access to the sites you select, not all sites.
- Intention gives users full control over what data they share. Right now, Intention includes only crash reporting (no analytics or tracking), and you can disable even that inside the settings.
- hn_throwaway_99 6y agoThank you very much! The privacy aspect was key for me, thanks for doing this right.