Tip of the day: SelfControl

Recently I ran across a piece of software called SelfControl. I've used it as a compliment to Net Responsibility and I think it's a really useful tool, so I thought I'd share this insight.

With SelfControl you can block several websites for a specified amount of time. The idea is to help you keep focused on doing what you should instead of checking Facebook, Youtube, the news etc. That's certainly something I find myself do... I've also realized that some of these sites may trigger temptations in me. For this particular reason I've started to add such sites to SelfContol and activate the blocking in times I know I'm weak or alone. This has proved to be very effective.

SelfControl is hard to deactivate once it's triggered. It doesn't help to turn off the software or reboot the computer. I like that.

Originally it was developed for Mac OSX, and may be found here. Luckily it's been ported to the Linux community as well. The ported version may be found at this URL: http://svn.jklmnop.net/projects/SelfControl.html

Just as a sidenote, in order to block Youtube for example, you need to add both youtube.com and www.youtube.com to the blacklist, or else it won't work. This applies to most websites.

I do not think it's a replacement for Net Responsibility, but definitely worth checking out as a compliment. Hope you'll find it useful as well!