Anything that looks interesting but requires more than a few minutes to chew on (like this, today: FBI Paid More Than $1M to Hack San Bernardino iPhone) I bookmark.
Throughout the day I take 10mins break for each 50mins of work, I don't go to these sites again, I just work through what I picked out in that first 20 minutes.
Gets the thirst for news out of the way and allows you to procrastinate, in a sense, "productively".
How do you consume 4 streams (HN, Reddit, Feedly and Twitter) each containing roughly 24 hours of activity, in 20 minutes?
The goal isn't to read every single new thing on the Internet, but between my pre-filtered sites and the morning skim I get a nice slice of interesting content to read throughout the day.
Keep it open, read an article when I have a free moment. Next free moment scroll to next interesting article. Dont get sucked too far elsewhere into the internet. Not always easy to do. Look where I am now.
From the github:
"f.action = 'http://gtmetrix.com/analyze.html?bm';"
... are you tracking people with this application?
I didn't investigate much. Looking back, yes, this file was not used!
Definitely using your app and recommending it to my friends!
I solved the problem by simply removing the timeline. Well, you can't actually remove it. But unfollowing everyone and everything results in this:
https://i.imgur.com/w4JZbct.png
It might not be for everyone, but it works excellent for me. And nowadays I actually complete what I came there for.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kill-news-feed/hjo...
Instead, I used Adblock and blocked the entire div! Now if I want to see my newsfeed, I can just log in on incognito, which I hardly ever do. Works great.
It's a way better interface for just chatting then the Facebook site and they have been adding new features to it regularly.
My only complaint is that it refuses to work on mobile (even though the desktop site is very responsive). It just pushes you at the app.
It's an electron-based app which allows you to load the web versions of Messenger, Whatsapp, Slack and many more.
Yesterday, I deleted the app and found myself multiple times missing that. So, yeah, it's a habit hard to break. And now, I try to spend same amount of time reading some light book on my kindle app.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
Every hour, you should see a quick summary of the pages you browsed through for the past hour.
It's easy to waste time not realizing how long you spent on AskReddit/TvTropes/whatever...
But if an hour of browsing flashes before your eyes and you can see nothing productive, it will wake you up.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/timestats/ejifodhj...
Also, it's clearly tracking me, but nowhere can I find anything that discloses that. I can only assume you're collecting/selling my data, so there's absolutely no way I am installing this, and I am DEFINITELY not recommending it for workplace use, because I don't know what kind of data you might be collecting.
If you want to make some cash on these things, add some ads. You definitely have space in that injected header to fit a banner or two.
About tracking, it is absolutely not tracking anything or anyone. That line of code referring to gtmetrix.com is from the sample google extension which i just forgot to remove. https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/getstarted#resources I'll remove it now. Sorry for the confusion. I hate tracking and would never do it to anyone without their permission (or even with their permission)
I can look at facebook on my phone all I want, but the app sucks anyway and I feel like an obvious slacker if I look at my phone for a long time, or glance at it more frequently than once an hour or so.
Works for me.
You can access the feeds on Panda http://usepanda.com instead of Facebook feed.
Electron app, uses native notifications, no need to run a webpage in a browser.