[finaliteration]

Very nice extension. I think one of the best things that’s happened to me productivity-wise is switching from an employer who was very loose/lenient about personal use with company computers to one who is very strict about it (we work with much more sensitive data). Knowing I can’t just jump over to HN whenever I want makes it a lot easier to focus. I also like the clear segmentation between my digital work environment and my personal one.

[tdfx]

I agree on the segmentation. I actually have no work-related reason to keep everything separate, but purposely do so for the distraction-related reasons you mentioned. I do this by keeping each type of work and personal project in its own Chrome user profile. This creates a silo'ed workspace for me to keep things only related to that project, but still have a personal profile to keep all my interesting bookmarks that I like to waste my time on.

[biql]

I went a bit further a created separate macos users for work and personal stuff. It helped with distractions but I did encountered a minor inconvenience when wanted to sync vscode / shell configurations.

[cynicalreason]

I'm in my mid 30's and have my bad habits really drilled in over the years, tried a lot of things ( more or less ) and the most effective thing so far has been (and is) 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique'. Until few years ago I didn't realize how much you can get done in 4 x 30m of really focused time.

[finaliteration]

I’ve tried the Pomodoro technique a few times over the last couple of years and just couldn’t ever get it to stick. Part of my problem is that I have pretty bad anxiety and focus issues, so I really have to force myself into a space that is conducive to being productive.

[nobrains]

I have modified my localhost to block the sites that are addictive, on my work machine. Works wonders for me.