Addicted to Distraction
I recently wrote a chrome extension that helps me curb my "compulsion loop."<p>It's pretty simple; each time the browser loads a website that has potentially distracting content (think: twitter, FB, reddit, hacker news, rotoworld, etc) that I tend to over-visit in search of new tidbits, the extension keeps track of my visit <i>and</i> the text content of the page.<p>The next time I visit, I do a text comparison that checks how similar the content is to my last visit. If there's too much overlap, the browser redirects.<p>There's a profound difference in using this approach versus existing distraction-detractors. When I see the browser redirect away while trying to load reddit.com, my rational side takes over and reminds me that I should be done with tidbit-seeking.<p>I ought to clean it up and put it on github; I'm sure someone else might find it useful.