jfarmer / procrast

A little shell script to add anti-procrastination features to /etc/hosts

Jesse's Anti-Procrastination Script

Tired of procrastinating? procrast is here to help!

This script blocks websites by adding a bogus entry to /etc/hosts. You can then toggle "procrastination mode" on and off.

• Use procrast add to add a site to the procrastination list
• Use procrast remove to remove a site from the procrastination list
• Use procrast no to stop procrastinating
• Use procrast yes to start procrastinating

Installing

If you have ~/bin in your PATH environment variable, the following will work:

mkdir -p ~/bin ; curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jfarmer/procrast/master/procrast -o ~/bin/procrast && chmod u+x ~/bin/procrast

Examples

You probably want to add both www.site.com and site.com.

If you wanted to block YouTube, you'd do...

procrast add youtube.com
procrast add www.youtube.com

Then procrast no will block YouTube and procrast yes will unblock YouTube. You never have to add YouTube to the procrastination list again.

Note on Facebook

If a site includes Facebook's tracking JavaScript, blocking Facebook might cause that site to not load (or load slowly). Keep that in mind if you find a site being suddenly slow to load.