Constant bypassing can dilute bypassing effectiveness on non-work related activities.

[hdavidzhu]

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I almost logged into facebook a moment ago. I caught myself while I was writing the reason. However, I have been writing so many reasons into Purpose, because I need to get to work emails and course materials on YouTube. It has become so habitual to bypass Purpose, it became easier than I would like it to be to bypass to check messages on facebook.

I realize the biggest challenge for me, is all the tools I get distracted with, are the ones I have to log onto to do work. It is probably what makes them a challenge in the first place.

It would be nice if there was some way to block out the unhelpful things I do on each site, while only keeping the purely work related ones.

[hdavidzhu]

Thanks! My current suggestions, based on what’s built so far is:

• Unblock your work email. It seems that for your work you have to be constantly logged in. That’s different for me; I check my email twice a day. :/
• Use this as your youtube block line youtube.com/$ This would only block the main youtube page, not the rest. So you can search for things on Youtube (through, say Google or by Tabbing) and not get distracted by the main Youtube page. This should also work for other specific Youtube pages.

Moving forward, what I can do is to

• bump the amount of time you can check out a webpage beyond 25 minutes. I may throw in another confirmation if you want to check-out a website longer than that time.
• Add some documentation showing people how they can use a few regex tricks to get their specific websites blocked.