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How about a proxy server I can use to block or partially block sites for myself? (Procrastination preventer) Since I'm not administering a corporate WAN, this should be lightweight and simple to use. It should let me set everything with a GUI. It should present the top 10 sites I visit as a list and let me block each with a click. The parital block feature can limit my use to 15 minute blocks or something like that.

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I've been thinking about this one for a while, with half an eye to coding it up: Mousehole or some other lightweight proxy with a list of sites. When you go to one of those sites, it redirects you to your "to-do" list; google notebook or rememberTheMilk or something with similar capabilities. There's a button to continue to your intended site, but you've got the reminders right there of what you really intended to do instead of spending time on a site you have marked as a time waster.

Could have priority markings and due dates integrated if it were a customized task list instead of google or RTM, and pop up the interstitial less often or less obtrusively when there's no important deadlines approaching, etc.

Leechblock partially solves that I think https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476

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