Samay - Stop Wasting Time

Pause before distracting sites. Hide optional distractions, choose grayscale and set daily limits. Free, with no account.

Samay (formerly Stop Wasting Time) adds a short, calm pause before the websites you choose, so the next visit is a choice. Know how long you'll stay After a few visits, Samay estimates how long a visit usually lasts, from your own history on this computer. An illustrated comparison shows what that time could be instead, like a short story or a walk. Pick how you pause - Quiet pause: a few slow breaths, from 3 to 30 seconds. - Type a short sentence. - Unscramble a sentence, with four levels. - Solve a maths problem, from easy sums to decimals. - Block access. You can also answer "why am I here?" first. Make room for what matters Choose websites you want more of, like Khan Academy or Duolingo, and give each a daily goal. When a distraction pauses, Samay offers one of them instead. Goal rings on Today fill up as you go. See where every minute goes Today shows when your time goes, with a heatmap of your week. Turn on "Count every website" for a private tally of all sites. Sites you haven't chosen get no timer and no pause. It stays off until you turn it on. Hide what you don't want to see Optionally hide feeds, Shorts, Reels, recommendations or comments on YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, Facebook and Netflix, or turn a site grayscale. Limits and focus Daily limits per site, schedules, reminders, timed focus blocks and breaks. The toolbar icon shows the minutes you've spent and a ring toward your usual visit. Private by default Your history stays on this computer. No account, no ads, no analytics. Samay doesn't read page content or send your history anywhere. Optional Chrome settings sync carries your rules and goals, never your history. Free and open-source licensed. Samay means time in Hindi. Privacy: https://gist.github.com/SK-0112/e201559a5621b62fe0fd22382d042169#file-samay-privacy-md Support: https://gist.github.com/SK-0112/e201559a5621b62fe0fd22382d042169#file-samay-support-md