Ask HN: What is the best distraction blocker?

6 points by Jefro118 5y ago ↗ HN

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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mrwnmonm 5y ago ↗

The beach

x87678r 5y ago ↗

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.

f_allwein 5y ago ↗

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

random21 5y ago ↗

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

phekunde 5y ago ↗

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

Gets the job done.

kleer001 5y ago ↗

An existential crisis worked for me.

gnatman 5y ago ↗

I've been using intention

https://www.getintention.com/

sgillen 5y ago ↗

I just have a list of sites I want blocked in /etc/hosts , just rerouted each entry to local host: