Ask HN: What is the best distraction blocker?

6 points·Jefro118··8 comments

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?

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I'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.

I had some good success with https://freedom.to/ .

Or conversely, the Pomodoro technique for better focus. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

I've been using intention

https://www.getintention.com/

This is what I use: https://switchoff.neocities.org

Gets the job done.

I 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

An existential crisis worked for me.

I use satoshis to measure the amount of value I burn every second.

The beach

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