One of the easiest ways that we can waste our time on is by
browsing aimlessly without having defined intentions. Our
habits determine are the behaviors that we are doing most of
the time and taking the time to build better habits will most
likely lead to better lives. This includes building better
habits online. A Chrome extension from Stanford is to help us
with that.
HabitLab is an open source project that tracks the time we spend on different sites like Netflix, Facebook, Twitter, etc., and gives us the opportunity to list the sites which we want to reduce the time we spend on. Then, HabitLab will choose an intelligent way to help you with that, such as hiding the Facebook news feed, hiding comments on YouTube, asking you to write a goal why are we opening Gmail before allowing us to open it, and many others, just to help us cut off the time we may consider as wasted.
Instead, we can actually invest that time into reading books,
spending time with our loved ones, or simply doing something
more productive rather than wasting it. There are only 24
hours in a day and the more effort that we put on
intentionally using them in the pursuit of our goals, the more
likely it is for us to accomplish them and live better
lives.
If a particular intervention is something that we do not
prefer to have it in our browser, then we can simply disable
it.
It is important to know that data on effectiveness will be
recorded for research purposes.
HabitLab is an open source project and you can view and
contribute to its code on
GitHub.
If you see yourself wasting a lot of time online,
then give this
extension
a try and see how it goes. I hope you find it useful.