#stayfocusd

a show tracker and account growth tracker for this month

Today I realized I was watching YouTube. I forgot to ask the 2Q’s and be judgmental. I went on auto pilot into my old habits. In order to fight this, I’ve employed a few teammates: 1. Minimalist YouTube and 2. StayFocusd. I’ve been using DF YouTube, but that one has let me down, so I’ve set up these new ones.

Long story short, you can block sites with StayFocusd. However, you can also whitelist sites. If you block youtube.com, but whitelist youtube.com/watch, then you can still watch videoes. The same way I’ve whitelisted youtube.com/results for searching, /c for browsing channels. Combine with minimalist youtube to remove all recommended videoes and we have a recipe for success.

In short, I’ll only be able to use YouTube productively, and sites such as 9gag, 9anime and various porn and hentai sites have been completely blocked.

The problem? There’s one way around it: uninstalling the extension. However, I have a reason not to. I’ve spent a lot of time and effort setting it up. I can’t really be bothered doing it again. The time I spent on this would be wasted. I’ve deleted the settings file, so there’s no quick way to re-implement it. Lastly, I’ve written a notification to remind myself when I forget the 2Q’s, being judgmental and self-preservation.

Overall, this builds on the second concept, namely protecting my emerging identity. One part of it is being judgmental. However, it’s not a habit for me yet, so I tend to forget it. This tool helps me avoid forgetting and ruining myself unconsciously.

If any of my followers (or anyone else really) are having trouble with productivity because you keep getting distracted by procrastinating on the internet, try using StayFocusd, which you can find at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stayfocusd/laankejkbhbdhmipfmgcngdelahlfoji?hl=en, or something like it. I’ve had chronic procrastination issues as long as I can remember, and I also tend to flit around between hobbies like some kind of dilettante butterfly, and I installed it a couple of weeks ago and have been WAY more productive, writing way more words than I’d written in a couple of months, cleaning my entire house, and doing some much needed work towards the self-employed freelancing business I’m trying to establish. (I’m a proofreader and also a poet, if anyone’s interested, though in this case I was dabbling in graphic design for a relative.)

It’s free to use, and it works by allowing you to add sites to a block list and block them between certain times of day and on certain days of the week. You can’t remove a site from your list once you’ve used up your allowed time on the blocked sites during the period set (which defaults to 10 minutes allowed during a default period of the whole day). I blocked Tumblr, Facebook, Reddit, all the fanfic sites I could think of, a bunch of blogs that I read but definitely count as procrastination, and a few other things, for standard working hours every day of the week including weekends (since I’m self employed and work from home), and every time I start procrastinating on a new site I’m adding it to the list. If you work at a place that means you’re out, you could set it to block only an hour or two a day instead, or to only block you on weekends, or whatever works for you. (Unfortunately you have to block sites between the same times every day that you block them.)

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