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What is noprocrast? It's a way to help you prevent yourself from spending too much time on News.YC. If you turn it on you'll only be allowed to visit the site
by Samuel_Michon 13y ago
What is noprocrast?
It's a way to help you prevent yourself from spending too much time on News.YC. If you turn it on you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours. You can override noprocrast if you want, in which case your visit clock starts over at zero.
- vidarh 13y agoThe problem I've found with things like noprocrast and assorted browser extensions is finding the exact right balance between making it enough of a hassle to get me to go away and do something more productive most of the time, but not intrusive enough that I'll end up disabling it permanently when it blocks me when I really want to have some downtime and "deserve it". Noprocrast simply doesn't work for me for that reason. What's worked best for me is the "Delayed Gratification" extension for Chrome, that delays certain websites for a specific amount of time. I found about 30 seconds is sufficient for me to go be able to convince myself to go back to work most of the time when I find myself just randomly going to a site like Reddit or HN, yet short enough that I can wait out the delay without being too tempted to disable it when I really want to.
- pestaa 13y agoMy comment was just a little snarky sharing a feeling that I could use more time to produce more value. I'm not sure where you get the idea that I'm spending too much time on Hacker News; it's certainly not the case. Obviously someone got really offended by my amusement.