TinyFilter is perhaps the simplest of the three. You can find the instructions to set the options in the last tab under options. Finally, you can track your productivity from the graphs in the Statistics tab. Whitelists will allow you to access important websites irrespective of the blocksets. You can set universal filters using regular expressions.įor instance, if you use ‘wordpress’ as a regular expression, it will block all websites which have it in the URL. You can create separate blocksets for groups of URLs. You can also group URLs to be blocked into block sets. For instance, you can block Facebook from 9AM-5PM or to a maximum of 60 minutes a day or both. Chrome NannyĬhrome Nanny helps you to block URLs at certain times in a day or set a time range (or hour range). The Settings page gives you powerful personal rules to apply like – setting the maximum number of minutes per day that you will be allowed to browse sites on the Blocked Sites list the interesting option of the Challenge where you have to complete a difficult – but not impossible – challenge before you are allowed to change any settings…and many more.

As a shortcut, you can set it up so that StayFocusd only allows that particular site and no other. As the screen shows, you can set a few options to selectively block pages or the entire site. You can browse to the “time waster” websites and click on the extension to block them.

StayFocusd forces you to focus on your work instead of browsing through attractive but addictive websites that distract from the task at hand.

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