Mindful Internet Use

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10 support issues

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Constantino M. Valmaseda

Sep 23, 2023

Exceptions (white-list) for particular pages needed. This is why:

Love it. Yet it does need to include a whilte-list to make exceptions for pages or subdomains from blocked domains.
For example, many of us block news. I tend to go there "to be informed" (i.e. to procrastinate). Yet, many times there are important/interesting articles related with my research/projects that are cited somewhere. I don't want to stop my workflow for reading those. Also, I want to bookmark those already read or to be read, to reference them, or because they've been highlighted and don't want to stop my flow anytime I want to check something related with those. That we do frequently.
White listing has already been suggested. Please give us a signal that you are actually considering this, so that we could keep using this (which I'd love to) instead of other similar apps. This one is a great implementation, so thanks a lot!!

Anurag

Aug 6, 2023

Block certain sub domain

Is there a way to only block sub domain like - "youtube.com" not "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=art"
as I use YouTube to search for helpful videos?
what I mean is I only find home page distracting everything else is useful

punpun

Jul 7, 2023

Whitelist

Hi, any chance of getting an option for a whitelist approach? As in, 'block' everything, except allowed sites.

Rob Storm

May 25, 2023

White listing sub domains

Hello! I'd love to be able to white list sections, for instance I'd love to blacklist
reddit.com and reddit.com/r/all

but whitelist reddit.com/*

to prevent surfing, but still can google search for references. Thanks!

Golam Rabbany

Nov 6, 2022

Lock out evey X minutes

Hello dear developer.
It's a great extension.
Please make me predefine that youtube will be lock for breathing evey 10 min.
also need to block facebook from 6 to 10 am.

Dalton Albinson

Jun 20, 2022

Allowance improvement

For addicts like me this app is helpful but the problem comes when you wait out a set amount of time you get a screen that lets you pick how much time you want to use a website like youtube and you can set anywhere between 5to 120mins.

Would be great if we could set this once in the settings and not allow to set it each time. I want to set it to 20minutes and LOCK IT with maybe a password. Currently, each time I end up allowing myself for 120mins which makes the extension less helpful than it could be.

Steve R

Apr 14, 2022

Lost To Do

Hi. What happened to the to do list, I have been using it for a while but have now lost my "to do". I didn't use anything else so hopefully I can remember what is in there. Sad loss to the extension.

Ari Abramowitz

Oct 24, 2021

Great extension, no longer works in kiwi browser

Hi,

I have been using your extension for a while and it's great. One issue with it though - I used to be able to use it on my phone with kiwi browser (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowser.browser&hl=en&gl=US), but that no longer works. I think this was caused by an update in kiwi at some point in the past few months.
Can you fix the extension so it works with kiwi again?

Thank you!

Alejandro Juul

Nov 19, 2020

Opening new tabs after time limit reached

Hello - I just discovered this extension and I've really enjoyed using it, it has been fantastic so far! I just had one quick question/note I was wondering if you could help me out with. After going through the steps to enter a mindless website and setting a time limit, I usually find myself using "command+tab" to bring up associated links (ex: a suggested video on YouTube) in a new tab. Once the timer is up, if I navigate to that new tab to continue interacting with the mindless website, I noticed that I do not have to go through the usual breathing process steps to do so. Also, sometimes there is a delay in the initiation of this process when clicking on a new link directly from that same initial page even after the timer has expired (ex: sometimes it takes me clicking 2 links in the same tab for the breathing process page to be initiated).

I find that most of my mindless browsing time spent is a result of opening up associated/related links from the initial tab of the mindless site using the "open link in new tab" function (like opening the comments of a reddit post in a new tab and then reading through those). I was wondering if there was any way to allow for the extension breathing pop-up to be initiated for each of these mindless website tabs stemming from the original one after the time limit has been reached for the website as a whole. I think that would be super helpful - thanks so much!!!

Matthew Kundert

Mar 25, 2020

Couple bugs/feedback

Searching for a 'mindless' website on a google search and clicking the link brings up a chrome error page stating, "Requests to the server have been blocked by an extension." It's fixed by opening a new tab and going to the same mindless site directly, and then switching back to the original tab, where the extension will now be working.

I've also noticed that if I set the time to five minutes when entering a mindless website, after five minutes have passed, the extension won't pop back up until you reload the website or click a link. If this is by design, then that's fine, but it was the behavior I was expecting in any case.

I'd also like if I could just hit enter after typing the quote to be let in with 5 minutes, I stick to the keyboard as much as possible and don't like having to reach over for the mouse.