How to protect yourself from time-sink sites?
I think many freelancers and not only asked this question. First I wrote a whole paragraph of text, and then I thought why should I pour water? In general, here are the specifics:
1. First, we need to identify the kidnappers of time, this will help us:
rescuetime.com - show time spent on both sites and programs,
or Chrome plugin for "Time Tracker" - will give information only on sites.
2. Now we need to protect ourselves during business hours from distracting websites and programs. Those. need a program that will close us access to these sites from 9:00 to 18:00.
At first I used the Chrome “StayFocusd” plugin, it was good for everyone but one - it was turned off with one mouse click, even the browser did not need to be restarted (thanks to chrome :). In addition, you could run FF and open any site from there.
Then I thought that all this resembles programs that restrict children's access to certain sites (parental control), found several options, of which I liked trafficwasher.ru.
Features:
There is a white list of sites - see below, for which it was useful.
There is a black list of sites - you can specify the time when you can not visit them, and when you can.
There is a black list of programs - you can also specify the time when you can not attend them, and when you can.
There are still different functions, but they are not interesting for our tasks.
Having configured everything as it should, do not forget to give the password from the program to a friend, otherwise it does not make sense.
')
Further, the water is not required to read , just do not know how to briefly describe:
I installed it, I used it, I bought it, everything seemed fine, but I lacked one function that I found in StayFocusd - the so-called Nuclear Mode (Nuclear Option). Turning it on, in the next hour you can open only sites from the white list. If you need to focus on a specific task - it would be very useful, right? In trafficwasher.ru there are the beginnings of this function, in the screenshot above a tick "Allow only these sites", but having set up the program, I gave the password to a friend, so that there would be a temptation to turn off the program if you really want to classmates or habr :). So, it was necessary to bring this opportunity to the tray program, I wrote to the developers, I wrote it three times, then I called and finally they agreed and made a special version.
www.trafficwasher.ru/files/trafwashinst_1hour.exe - unfortunately it has already been deleted, but if you write to them - I think they will.
3. And for a snack a couple of useful plug-ins for Chrome in my opinion:
Goddamn Work is a simple plugin that shows the remaining time until the end of the working day.
TimerSet - write a task, specify how much you are willing to spend on it and start, the stopwatch shows the remaining time. For example, I have just indicated that I will spend 30 minutes on writing this article, I have a window that shows that the time is over and the time overrun is 7 minutes. 56 sec. - continues to tick.
ChromoDoro - for those who use "tomato technique." By the way, it also helps, a sense of time appears.
1. First, we need to identify the kidnappers of time, this will help us:
rescuetime.com - show time spent on both sites and programs,
or Chrome plugin for "Time Tracker" - will give information only on sites.
2. Now we need to protect ourselves during business hours from distracting websites and programs. Those. need a program that will close us access to these sites from 9:00 to 18:00.
At first I used the Chrome “StayFocusd” plugin, it was good for everyone but one - it was turned off with one mouse click, even the browser did not need to be restarted (thanks to chrome :). In addition, you could run FF and open any site from there.
Then I thought that all this resembles programs that restrict children's access to certain sites (parental control), found several options, of which I liked trafficwasher.ru.
Features:
There is a white list of sites - see below, for which it was useful.
There is a black list of sites - you can specify the time when you can not visit them, and when you can.
There is a black list of programs - you can also specify the time when you can not attend them, and when you can.
There are still different functions, but they are not interesting for our tasks.
Having configured everything as it should, do not forget to give the password from the program to a friend, otherwise it does not make sense.
')
Further, the water is not required to read , just do not know how to briefly describe:
I installed it, I used it, I bought it, everything seemed fine, but I lacked one function that I found in StayFocusd - the so-called Nuclear Mode (Nuclear Option). Turning it on, in the next hour you can open only sites from the white list. If you need to focus on a specific task - it would be very useful, right? In trafficwasher.ru there are the beginnings of this function, in the screenshot above a tick "Allow only these sites", but having set up the program, I gave the password to a friend, so that there would be a temptation to turn off the program if you really want to classmates or habr :). So, it was necessary to bring this opportunity to the tray program, I wrote to the developers, I wrote it three times, then I called and finally they agreed and made a special version.
www.trafficwasher.ru/files/trafwashinst_1hour.exe - unfortunately it has already been deleted, but if you write to them - I think they will.
3. And for a snack a couple of useful plug-ins for Chrome in my opinion:
Goddamn Work is a simple plugin that shows the remaining time until the end of the working day.
TimerSet - write a task, specify how much you are willing to spend on it and start, the stopwatch shows the remaining time. For example, I have just indicated that I will spend 30 minutes on writing this article, I have a window that shows that the time is over and the time overrun is 7 minutes. 56 sec. - continues to tick.
ChromoDoro - for those who use "tomato technique." By the way, it also helps, a sense of time appears.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/112144/
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