Take a breath

SUMMARY

This is an anti-procrastination tool that takes a softer approach than most site blocking addons. Those don't work because you eventually just uninstall or disable them to continue your guilty pleasure. Rather than blocking you, this extension slows you down before you can visit time-wasting websites like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or Reddit.

When you try to visit one of those websites, it asks you how long you'd like to browse it for. Then you must wait 20 seconds before you can gain access. This helps break the dopamine loop associated with easily visiting these websites multiple times a day. When the time you defined is up, the tab closes.

Go to settings to set websites you don't want to visit, like:
https://x.com

If you still want to be able to see certain pages of that website (say someone sends you a tweet), you can whitelist them with wildcards, like this:
https://x.com/*/status

The latest version of Take a breath is available on the Chrome web and is currently being used by 3 active users. The initial version was launched on 2024-08-15.

HOW TO INSTALL Take a breath FROM A CRX FILE

1. Download Take a breath CRX file
2. NOTE: Sometimes the browser may block downloading / installing CRX file from outside the Chrome Web Store. If so, you may need to download the ZIP file instead
3. In the URL bar, go to chrome://extensions
4. Enable Developer mode

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