I do the same. I even used the terminal commands to change the granularity of the blocks and extend the length. And the same things happens to me. A lot of tim

I do the same. I even used the terminal commands to change the granularity of the blocks and extend the length. And the same things happens to me. A lot of times I don't even want or think of going to HN, Reddit, Twitter. I'm just bored or frustrated and, almost unconsciously, I hit the shortcuts for Browser > New Tab > Focus Address Bar > Start typing n, r or m (for mobile.twitter.com). Some things that helped a lot with this, together with SelfControl, is to change all new tabs to a blank page and disable autocomplete in the Firefox navbar. That last one is not very good for everything, so it would be better to just delete those automatic sites from the suggestion list. I never really took the time to see how it's done of FF, though. To change the timings in SelfControl, use (sorry, it is a very very old note in Evernote so I don't have the original source anymore): defaults write org.eyebeam.SelfControl MaxBlockLength -int [maximum block length in minutes] defaults write org.eyebeam.SelfControl BlockLengthInterval -int [block length interval in minutes]