You describe the feeling very well. I feel exactly the same way and have to actively make an effort to avoid getting distracted. All "bad habits" I've been abl

You describe the feeling very well. I feel exactly the same way and have to actively make an effort to avoid getting distracted. All "bad habits" I've been able to combat has been with some mechanism where I can stop the temptation from growing in my mind. Nip it in the bud, as they say. I lost a lot of weight by killing any thoughts about snacking with the mantra "no eating anything you didn't plan to eat, ever for any reason" for example. Thinking to myself "focus means saying no" has recently helped me close a few background-opened tabs without reading the genuinely interesting articles hiding behind them, but I have found no silver bullet. If I let myself go one night, I'm at 20 wikipedia tabs and 12 HN tabs as bedtime approaches, easy. :)