#MAD Mindfulness Anti Distraction Chrome extension to help curtail bad habitual distractions. #How to run #About I have 0 idea if this works in practice. Inspirations taken from bits and pieces of psychology studies and my own lazy-ass intuitions. Related : Baumeister's work. Insightful Daniel Golemann Vid Previously tried using extensions that prevent distractions by fully blocking or restricting site usage (e.g. StayFocusd). Worked in the short term, but I would eventually just remove them out of inconvenience. The goal is to aid the rewiring of wanting long-term goals (short-term happiness has value). Fun 'human-capital development' focused web browsing links are given as alternative browsing. #Developer Diary Monitoring my process. Started at HackWestern.
v0.1 29/03/2015 - Knowledge basis: code academy javascript, stack overflow, github files of other chrome extensions, chrome extension api and docs. - Heavily inspired by other anti distraction extensions, e.g. StayFocusd or ColdTurkey. - Wanted to manipulate myself into not being distracted, by criticizing and causing cognitive dissonance. - Knowledge gained: Negative, or annoyingly long to type guilt messages are draining. Hard to be productive when you're feeling shitty. Going to try to use inspiring, or user-empowering quotes that also make you think, but aren't depressing amongst other additional features in next vers. v0.1.0.3 30/03/2015 - Changed UI so the alternatives are upfront, more immediate and relatively bigger. Intuitively that should be the focus, not the typing to unlock/go to the website. - Learned a bit more jquery syntax. It's much nicer for manipulating html elements =D. - The more positive focused thoughts seem better for now... Blind optimism doesn't seem appropriate here though.