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I'm a Clearspace user who found this app via a post on HN, and I can't thank the creators enough. I have not fully extracted myself from use of Reddit yet, but it's remarkable how effective this app was at breaking my cycle of opening, scrolling, closing, and reopening less than an hour later. I've tried other screentime management apps, but it seems like something about Clearspace's approach with the centering exercises and the intentional choice to spend X minutes browsing changes your mental relationship with the feed.

I genuinely feel as though I am more present during idle moments and have reclaimed time to myself - truly to myself - during my weekends.

I am very grateful for Clearspace. Now, I just wish you'd release a Firefox extension so I can lock down Reddit from my computer too.

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If you want a desktop solution now, Focus Bear (focusbear.io) can do it. Our iOS app will have a similar UX to Clearspace (just waiting for apple to approve our Screentime permissions).

thanks so much for this. desktop solution coming as fast as we can build it!

I work in AR, and am inspired to think how an app like Clearspace could help make AR something that enhances our mental wellness instead of degrades it. I feel like the stereotypical expectation is that AR will result in our views being cluttered by advertisements and digital content at all times. But I wonder, could "Clearspace AR" filter out the billboard over 101 I can see from my apartment? Could it help protect me from distracting, negative, plainly unhealthy ad and outrage-driven media content around me every day?

What I'm really hoping is, one day you can filter People Magazine out of the grocery store checkout line ;)

Would you mind open sourcing the browser extensions?

Something about installing closed source browser extensions with broad permissions like "Read and change your data on many / all websites" has always bothered me.

Too many have been bought up and then later injected with malware / ads / etc but that's totally opaque to the end user...

I would also like to, e.g., add more sites, say HN, beyond the currently supported list [^1].

[^1]: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit

And there appear to be some bugs in the Chrome extension...

I just installed it and tested the 5 toggles for a few minutes, and found most of them only seem to work on the homepage of the site? Is that expected?

I mostly use these sites not by going to the homepage first, so I think blocking only one door into a house is an invalid assumption for blocking the site.

Also Facebook blocking doesn't seem to be working at all.

^new favorite username

Haha thanks, first grabbed it on xbox live like 15 years ago and felt kind of like I won the lottery ever since

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