Untold story of eliminating distractions on both laptop and phone 🙅‍♂️

There are two creatures living inside my head who behave opposite to another. While I know that I should be studying, randomly the other creature opens a tab on facebook. These two had been in a continuous fight with each other since O/L days.

I have tried various website blockers to block me browsing facebook. However, the other creature somehow finds a way to find a bug in it and bypass that app.

The never ending fight ended a couple of months back. And here’s what i did.

I found an open-source app called SelfControl on the internet.

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you can easily set a time limit to block certain websites, and yet I have not found a way to bypass this app.

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Figure 3: (blocking in action!)

Figure 4: (blocking in action!)

On the phone..

I started using screen time on my phone and it was really effective until i started entering the passcode each time the time ran out.

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