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Help: advice & tools for digital detox / minimalism? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello, I was wondering if anyone has recommendations for tools to help with digital detox / digital minimalism.

I struggle with mild impulsivity. Whenever I open my computer I almost automatically open a browser and check social media.

It used to be a problem primarily with Reddit and news sites, but since joining Lemmy my behavior has switched to regularly checking Lemmy.

I'm looking for any tools or advice, whether cognitive-behavioral or technical like browser extensions.

In the past I used the Firefox extension called Redirector to redirect myself from certain subreddits like /r/all to something more benign (I like /r/sewing or /r/books for example), and this intervention helped break up automatic behavior and was a kind of harm reduction: still feeding the impulsivity, but with healthier content.

I was wondering if there is something like Redirector that redirects randomly with some probability (like 20% of the time it redirects to the target you specify).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Oh, I love that - greyscale as a warning.

For a while I had my whole phone on greyscale, but I don't have trouble with spending time on my phone - it's really the laptop that I have an issue with.

Maybe I should write software to conditionally greyscale my desktop/laptop screen!

Thanks for the link and details, so helpful!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You're welcome! Sorry I couldn't help more. I actually have a script like this but for gradual redshift