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all-the-time, forever, the tool has become a welcome way to separate my for-work online browsing and the for-boredom online browsing after
There are plenty of these plugins already, but as is the case with all software, sometimes a few UX advances make all the difference
With Motion, the differentiation is the underlying psychology of the product, which eschews the central focus on black lists and white
lists, instead promoting the idea of helpful pushes more in spirit with OS-level screen-time apps.After installing Motion, you can set your
productive hours and designate the sites you deem as beneficial and harmful to your productivity
For instance, I wanted to cut out Reddit, Facebook and YouTube from my work-hours browsing
Now, going forward, any time that you type in the URL of an offending website, the plugin will throw you a full-page alert that you can
dismiss or temporarily hush.Telling it that you need a minute will actually toss a countdown timer onto the screen, pushing you to get what
The UX of the app makes room for exceptions, but still pushes users to reduce time on those sites, a big differentiator from more absolutist
The screen shares the time you spent on each site during the previous day, allowing you to track how the tool has reduced your browsing time
on certain sites and identify other URLs that you may also want to block.Motion as a product is still in its early stages of evolution, and
into a viable business moving forward
enterprise products down the road, once the core product has been built out a bit more.Motion co-founders Omid Rooholfada, Ethan Yu and
