WasteNoTime Extension for Safari and Chrome
Ok let’s face it, we live in a world full of distractions. Especially online. So if your daily job requires you to use a computer with access to the world wide web, and you happen to be aware of the millions of collaboration and communication tools on there, you’re probably going to find yourself spending more time updating your current status, sorting your friends into lists and those lists into lists, than you really need to be.
But hey, we’re only human and not everyone has a job they jump out of bed and skip the coffee for. So that’s why “there’s an app for that”, or in this case an extension. I’ve only used this for one full work day, but I can already recommend it to anyone that works online. This Safari and Chrome extension let’s you create a Block list and an Allow List. You can turn on Instant Lockdown to block all sites on the block list for any amount of minutes. It will also show you the amount of time spent on the top 10 sites you visit each day. You just might be surprised at the consistent urge to check those tempting websites and how accustomed you’ve become to it. However, at the end of the day you will feel better about the work you’ve accomplished, and you can stare Facebook and Twitter in the screen and tell them you don’t need them (as often as you thought).
