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1. SyneRyder · 1791181191 · focus · HN ↗

   The piece also mentions this, but Hacker News has a "No Procrastination" feature you can enable in your profile.

   You can set the maximum number of minutes you're allowed to visit Hacker News for, and the minimum number of minutes you need to be away before the site will let you return.

   There's other software that can help too, to block you from websites for a period of time. Years ago my favourite was Concentrate on the Mac, but that is discontinued. It seems Focus is another replacement - I haven't tried it, but link as an example of what is available:

   <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;heyfocus.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;heyfocus.com&#x2F;

   1. Imustaskforhelp · 1791181700 · focus · HN ↗

      OP here, I wished to write about this in the blog post but I also use a block-site[0] thing (ironically it still is open and I just press one minute or 5 minute etc.)

      I think that the issue with that is that atleast with the block extenstion that I currently use, its really easy to just open it up for 1 minute or 5 minute etc. and this then goes into the issue that I have tried to talk about in the article.

      To give you a meta example of this issue, I still wanted to see how my blog post is doing and uh, I opened it up for 1 minute but then saw your comment and have started commenting.

      &gt; You can set the maximum number of minutes you&#x27;re allowed to visit Hacker News for, and the minimum number of minutes you need to be away before the site will let you return.

      The min. no of minutes part is a lot more interesting part for me as with that extension, there isn&#x27;t really that concept.

      &gt; There&#x27;s other software that can help too, to block you from websites for a period of time. Years ago my favourite was Concentrate on the Mac, but that is discontinued. It seems Focus is another replacement.

      I will try that out! Basically what I want is where if I am studying, I can decide for how long my studying is and then when opening up hackernews (as I just press n, press enter and its so subconscious), instead of having a button which can make me unblock it, It will just literally have no option (period) to unblock in that time. I think this is what you are suggesting with this app, so I will try that out!

      Also thanks for commenting, Time to go back to studying for me, please wish me luck and have a nice day :-D

      [0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webextension.org&#x2F;listing&#x2F;block-site.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webextension.org&#x2F;listing&#x2F;block-site.html

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