You can setup some goals like “Use social network less than 1h a day” or “More than 6h doing Productive Activities”.

Once a week, Rescue Time send you an email with a complete report.

I’m going to install those site blockers. Maybe it could help me achieve my daily goal on using social networks.

Great post!

That will immediately clog up everything.

I am not affiliated or compensated in any way, I am simply a happy user and gained back several hours per week. Now if only a solution existing for iOS.

Website distractions have been something I’ve been struggling with but have now been website distraction free for a month. I used many of those time blockers but eventually I’d just stopped using it or just jump on my phone, go on a different browser, or just exit the program. After a year of not “fixing” my behaviors, I instead just went cold turkey, both on my computer and my phone, and I had to make the barriers fairly difficult to reverse. The crazy part of going cold turkey is that I’d STILL go to the websites after they were blocked, they were absolutely engrained in my subconscious. At first it was like 10-20 times a day but now it’s 0-3 times a day. By putting the high barriers to reverse them, my conscious now has the opportunity to kick in and I removing time-wasting behaviors and creating new productive ones! No longer hooked, Nir Eyal! 😉

[For the techies…] On my computer, I simply put in /etc/hosts rules and on my phone, I got a Nexus 5x with Marshmallow on it which allowed me to override the bootloader without rooting the phone and then I modified /etc/hosts… But do note I did brick my phone for 2 hours while doing this… 😛 Phones make it extremely difficult to block websites, but once I did that, that’s when the real change happened. To reverse each one it’d take me at least over 5 different technical steps, and apparently that was the secret recipe for me.