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Ask HN: What is the best distraction blocker?
I can't avoid spending a lot of time in my browser for the sake of work. Sometimes I can focus fine but on other days I find myself getting frequently distracted. I was using inmotion.app until recently but they seem to have reduced their number of users and removed the free tier (annoyingly, without telling me).
What's the best distraction blocker or other technique you've used?
- mrwnmonm 6y agoThe beach
- x87678r 6y agoI'm starting to think its impossible except to fully unplug from the internet for a few hours at a time. Sure you might not have docs or stack overflow but its probably still a big improvement. The only other thing I suggest is to limit hours. If I try to do 12 hours a day I quickly end up wasting time. If I do 8 hours or less, I'm itching to get started and actually get more done.
- f_allwein 6y agoI had some good success with https://freedom.to/ https://freedom.to/ . Or conversely, the Pomodoro technique for better focus. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
- random21 6y agoI use satoshis to measure the amount of value I burn every second.
- phekunde 6y agoThis is what I use: https://switchoff.neocities.org https://switchoff.neocities.org Gets the job done.
- kleer001 6y agoAn existential crisis worked for me.
- gnatman 6y agoI've been using intention https://www.getintention.com/ https://www.getintention.com/
- sgillen 6y agoI just have a list of sites I want blocked in /etc/hosts , just rerouted each entry to local host: www.reddit.com 127.0.0.1