Reviews for Intention - Stop Mindless Browsing
Intention - Stop Mindless Browsing by DK
Review by greg.healy
Rated 5 out of 5
by greg.healy, 5 years agoAwesome extension! I'd previously been using one call "Impulse Blocker" and, while it would sometimes stop me from visiting the blocked sites, I'd often just unblock it and visit it anyways. The gamification of staying busy with streaks and a notification of how "busy" I've been for the day is fantastic. It makes me more aware of my usage, and it almost feels like the extension is challenging me in a taunting kind of "bet you can't stay away" way.
The only drawback that I encountered while setting it up had to do with the schedule. Because I use the "resistFingerprinting" option in my privacy settings, Firefox provides the extension with the current time in UTC. It would be nice to be able to tick a box that says "I'm using resistFingerprinting" and then select the timezone that the schedule uses (e.g. EST or PST). From there the extension could just calculate the difference in the timezones to apply the correct schedule.
The only drawback that I encountered while setting it up had to do with the schedule. Because I use the "resistFingerprinting" option in my privacy settings, Firefox provides the extension with the current time in UTC. It would be nice to be able to tick a box that says "I'm using resistFingerprinting" and then select the timezone that the schedule uses (e.g. EST or PST). From there the extension could just calculate the difference in the timezones to apply the correct schedule.
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- Rated 4 out of 5by guy who foxes, 9 days agoReally great extension! Been using it the past week or so to manage my usage with one website.
There is already a good amount of customization to be had; however, I wish there was just a little bit more there. For example, I wish that, when you start a productive session, you could move around where the intention is on the screen rather than have it on the bottom (inconvenient for me when I do use my distracting website), or at least have a setting to change the position to top, bottom, left, right, etc. I would also like to see the ability to customize how long automatic cooldowns last (they're currently 30 seconds). And it would be nice to see some sort of protection against changing the settings, like waiting for a timer or having to put in a password. I've had to manage the easy access to the extension's settings using another app blocker to stop myself from removing the website from my distracting sites list.
Overall, love the concept of this and have been finding success with another small modification using an app blocker on my part, but would just like to see the ability to further customize features and settings. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19921368, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Blue-Sauce, a month agoVery helpful!
I've tried all the similar extensions I can find & this is by far the best imho.
Just wish it had more configuration options, like changing the time amounts presented on the buttons, adjusting the cool down, etc. - Rated 5 out of 5by Neil, 3 months ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by John, a year agoI was looking for an app similar to Screen Zen which I used on android and this works just as well. Helped me go from 2-4 hours of YouTube every day to about 50 minutes a day, the fact that it shows you your time for the day makes you more aware of the amount of time you waste on useless videos, which helped me start to bring down my time from 50 minutes to about 20 minutes in the past few weeks. This extension really helped me make another big step in my life.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Philomath, a year ago
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- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17576141, a year agodoes what it says it does, would be better if it didn't let you see the page it's blocking imo