WasteNoTime - time tracker and site blocker for Chrome and Safari

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

A simple plugin will help you pull yourself together and not waste time.

Are you familiar with this situation: you pour tea, open your laptop, get ready to get to work, when you suddenly find yourself scribbling already the hundredth comment under a stupid post on Facebook? Yes, this has happened to everyone, and, let's be honest, not everyone has the willpower to break out of this swamp of procrastination. The only way out is to use force, namely to block access to distracting resources for the duration of your work, or even permanently, if the resource is toxic, that is, it spoils your mood.

WasteNoTime Plugin is designed to help you take back control of your time. It is available for Chrome and Safari browsers and has two main functions:

1. Time tracker. The WasteNoTime plugin takes into account the time you spend on sites and presents the result in a table. For those who are completely lost on the Internet and do not realize on which sites they are killing their time, a time tracker can be useful.

The function can be configured by specifying the time the browser is idle (that is, when it is open, but you are not doing anything in it), after which the counter turns off.

2. Site blocker. Thanks to this feature, the WasteNoTime plugin blocks access to sites. The main settings here are black and white lists. In the first, you enter those sites that take away your time and effort, and therefore are subject to a ban, and in the second, important sites that should always be available.

WasteNoTime also has flexible time settings. You specify when exactly the plugin will enable the blocking. There are two options:

Blocking based on working hours. You specify the hours during which you must work and not be distracted, as well as the time limit that can be spent on the sites from the list during and after business hours.
Blocking without taking into account working hours. In this mode, the plugin allows you to be on the site only for the specified time.

In both modes, you can select the days of the week. Yes, and do not forget to tell the plugin how many minutes before blocking to inform you that the site will be closed.

After setting a time limit, you might want to expand it. For example, you just started reading the most important life hack on how to defeat procrastination, and suddenly the WasteNoTime plugin says that there are only three minutes left before the site is blocked and it’s time to get down to business. Agree, in this case, you need to have remarkable willpower so as not to add yourself another 15–20 minutes.

However, for such situations, there is a Challenge function that will complicate your task. It allows you to set a password for access to change the time limit or a request to enter a random combination of characters. For those who are always lazy, and even more so to enter all sorts of tricky passwords, Challenge can really help.

Instant Lockdown is another important feature of the WasteNoTime plugin. It is needed in case you suddenly realize that you have been stuck on the Web for too long. With one click, you can immediately turn on blocking at least the entire Internet. The duration of the Instant Lockdown can of course be specified.

The last important feature of the WasteNoTime plugin is the ability to save settings to a file and load them from a file. Thus, you can establish blocking on all your computers in one fell swoop, even if the black list is bursting from harmful sites at the seams.

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