Productivity Owl Forces You to Get Back to Work by Timing Your Website Visits

Chrome: We've all been there: Popped onto a site "just for a few minutes" only to emerge hours later, your day gone. Rather than completely block sites so you can't use them at all, The Productivity Owl Chrome extension takes a different approach: It lets you surf a site for a few seconds or minutes before kicking you off.

This is useful if you often need access to potentially time-sucking sites (like Wikipedia or YouTube). The owl waits in the background as soon as you go to a website, and gives you just enough time to read what you need before it closes the tab.

Don't worry; although the owl is very strict, you can customize how it works. You can set, for example, how much browsing time you're given, which sites should never be closed and which to always block, and schedule free time during the week when you can browse any pages. During those free times, you can access sites the owl prevented you from visiting but saved for later.

The Productivity Owl also gives you a score for how well you follow the program (e.g., not switching your free time to now). Mostly, it's a very motivating extension that forces you to quickly get the information you need and stop lingering or procrastinating. Do you dare try to ride the owl?

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Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/cucRVeoZR34/productivity-owl-forces-you-to-get-back-to-work-by-timing-your-website-visits

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