[michael_leachim]

My main problem with the web usage is not blocking unwanted websites but rather understanding which when and how I should or shouldn't block them.

For example, On one hand, I can't block Wikipedia Stack Overflow or GitHub because I need them for work. On the other, I find myself hours later browsing the source of a project unrelated to the task at hand.

By far, the only way I found to work is to introduce a delay between the need for information and the actual retrieval.

Like you write down queries to the Google and then do something else. In ten minutes time, you do exactly what you wrote in your log file. If you want to search for something else, you introduce it into the journal again, and in ten minutes repeat it. So goes the cycle.

But then, because you have this lag you can't do research faster because your every step is now bound by drag and red tape that you introduced yourself.

TBH, this is a book material here, because working with internet but not abusing the information hoarding instincts is a methodology question.

Not a technical one.