u/SuzukiMirai

I hate my brain with how distractable it is. first question. how do you guys cope with those thoughts, because from my point of view, reddit is big giant pile of distraction. new topic, go deep down on rabbit hole, interact with community (more like, passively reading what people are saying), and then move to the next shiny thing. I used cold turkey on windows 11. but currently my main machine is linux. I want to self block, but it is hard because I can undo it myself.

next question, with how the computer works, it is possible to gather data on ourselves. I use something like activitywatch to make log of my activity. the problem is what's next. Is there something like a launcher replacement, that generate set of application I can access on the fly, suitable based on my intent? If I need to work on my paper, I don't need sudo access to debug my apps. If I browse reddit as part of task, do text classification task if the content of the reddit is actually relevant to my current task. determine if I need browser or not, edit and block host file or switch dns on the fly based on the task profile. ideally, the first thing I am doing as I boot is looking at my current todo and look which one to do for this session.

I came to this term in my search in how to make myself more accountable and do it instead of procrastinating my task. unfortunately, a live, virtual one seems expensive with focusmate costing 12 usd per month (converting to my weak currency made it costly) with me being forgetful, this kind of service is scary in commitment, as I probably will forget to stop paying for it when it is not needed.

how to make yourself be undistractable and accountable? people says body doubling is revolutionary in their accountability. that's why I like working in office. but when I'm working from home, most of the time, I get easily distracted.