SelfControl – Parental Controls for grown ups.

SelfControl

SelfControl

Is email a distraction? SelfControl is an OS X application which blocks access to incoming and/or outgoing mail servers and websites for a predetermined period of time. For example, you could block access to your email, facebook, and twitter for 90 minutes, but still have access to the rest of the web. Once started, it can not be undone by the application or by restarting the computer – you must wait for the timer to run out.

Free software under the GPL. Here’s the code.


COMMENTS

It works… perhaps too well

jamie dubs added these pithy words on Mar 26 09 at 8:08 pm

Brilliant, I was actually just thinking of starting the same a day or so before you posted this on here :) Finally tried it, but the binary version that you put online doesn’t seem to work (doesn’t even start) on my Mac OS 10.4.11 machine – gonna try and build it from the source now.

Michael added these pithy words on Mar 28 09 at 9:54 am

it’s 10.5+ but play with the code if you want to make a version compatible with 10.4… or upgrade…

Steve Lambert added these pithy words on Mar 28 09 at 10:16 am

I’ve downloaded it..
I’m guessing “edit blacklist” is where you add sites.

I did that, but I can still use them? Perhaps I’m adding them wrong… don’t really understand the “import” part

anonymouse added these pithy words on Mar 30 09 at 6:10 pm

@anonymouse – you guessed right. Import is to import your mail servers from your mail program. Your browser might be caching the sites.

Steve Lambert added these pithy words on Mar 30 09 at 11:10 pm

This is wonderful, thank you! I’ve found you through another site – loving everything I am stumbling upon.

Finally a place where people think along the same lines I do!

Thanks and Ciao.

Dennis added these pithy words on May 02 09 at 8:28 pm

fantastic! I love this more than you will ever know

shinny shin shin added these pithy words on May 14 09 at 4:27 pm

Now if only it would go longer than twelve hours! This has basically saved alot of my time. Thank you so much!

James added these pithy words on Aug 28 09 at 1:21 am

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