Mindful Internet Use

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A Chrome Extension that prevents mindless browsing

Latest reviews

• (2023-10-31) Lite Chen: Dear developer, I would like to express my appreciation for your app, which has been a game changer for me. However, I have a suggestion that I believe would enhance my experience even further. Is it possible to include an option to hide the count down number during breathing exercises? I believe this would help me focus on my breathing, rather than anticipating the end of the count down. Additionally, I think it would be great if you could add a feature to set the timer with random numbers, as this would prevent me from becoming too accustomed to a regular timer and help maintain its impact. Thank you for your consideration.
• (2023-10-20) Neville D'Agaro: The forced breathing really does help you to practice mindfulness.
• (2023-07-17) James McDonald: Just fantastic! Would be great to select another option that makes you pause during the browsing by every 5 minutes, which is kind of achieved by the maximum browsing time I use this in junction with the pause extension which also asks me if I really want to enter the website :) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pause-stop-mindless-brows/ljfdccdjpfjpfjbpdiihanpodilolofh/related
• (2023-07-12) Errika Rupeeika: Perfect. Recommend.
• (2023-03-12) Brian Saturnino: In my experience, I have found the "Delayed Gratification" extension to be insufficient in limiting my time on distracting websites, as it was easy to bypass by simply opening another tab. However, I have since switched to a different extension that completely resets itself if I attempt to bypass it, and I have noticed that it has helped me to limit my time on distracting websites. One of the features I appreciate about this extension is its ability to reset itself, which has helped me stay focused and productive. However, I have noticed that there is room for improvement, as the extension sometimes repeats itself entirely after finishing a full cycle. I hope that the developers will be able to address this issue in future updates. Overall, I highly recommend this extension for anyone looking to limit their time on distracting websites, as it has been effective in helping me to stay on track and avoid distractions. With some improvements to its functionality, I believe that it has the potential to become an even more valuable tool for productivity and focus.
• (2023-02-21) Sneha Jha: It is good but along with the URL it should have the block by words feature...It would be more useful in that way
• (2023-02-13) Albert Yu: Great extension with just the right amount of features! Would love to see option to replace the background to inspiring photos (unsplash) to remind user of the world and opportunity out there
• (2023-02-03) Gautam Gupta: I'll just say this - Why did't I find this extension earlier!?
• (2023-01-07) Ella Walker: Amazing, really gives breathing space before you choose to engage with a website where you have unhelpful habits. Creates pause points where you have the opportunity to stop what you're doing.
• (2023-01-03) Anish Jambhorkar: Incredible extension, just the thing that I have been looking for. By the way, please allow the users to set a customized breath timer/cycle, because I believe everybody has their own comforts and discomforts in the aspect of mindful breathing. Thanks for creating this wonderful extension!
• (2022-10-29) Степан Спирин: Hello! Thank you very much for this extension! I've been using it for more than 6 months now and I like it very much. Unfortunately my laziness is too powerful, and often I click "90 minutes" when I really don't need to spend more than 10 minutes on the website, which is why I would love to see the following feature: make the time allowed to spend on the website gradually increase with the number of breaths, so for example after 3 breaths only 5 minutes are available, only 10 after 4 breaths and so on. This would make the extension perfect. Thanks again!
• (2022-09-21) a916 music: Loving this extension so far. First time I've heard of a productivity extension that goes for the root of the problem rather than trying to mitigate the symptoms, and it's definitely working much better for me than other "traditional" extensions I've tried (and deleted b/c they weren't working lol). I especially like the mindfulness breathing required to change certain settings--very nice touch. Personally I'd love to see a whitelist implemented in addition to the mindless website list: for example, I have "twitter.com" set as a mindless website to stop me from endless scrolling, but I'd also want to be able to use "twitter.com/messages" to catch up with friends without the need to go through the breathing exercises. Cheers!
• (2022-08-24) Benedek Santa: wow great extension one thing I would love to see, is the quote during the breathing exercise, please add that
• (2022-08-05) Eymerick Thibaut: Very cool but I'd love to be able to change the number of breathing quickly because I'm new and it makes me lose time to adjust to what best fits my usage.
• (2022-07-01) vrsatill X: Litterally saves me 2-3 hours of scrolling a day, thanks !
• (2022-06-20) Dalton Albinson: suggestions: Lock settings with a password that you give to someone else so you cant change them. Set allowance timer once in the settings that would be locked.
• (2022-05-20) Iker Vita: Excellent extension. Unlike other extensions that try to solve the problem by essentially side stepping the true issue at hand (e.g. simply blocking these sites, which always has workarounds), this attempts to attack the core of your vices by encouraging you to mindfully think for just a few seconds whether you really want to waste your precious time, and doing so while not being overly annoying (and hence less tempted to remove or disable extension when discipline is running low). A small tip would be to add the ability to name the author of the quotes we add.
• (2022-03-24) Aditya Banerjee: This is a great extension! Helps me be more focused and mindful throughout the day. It would be nice if I could change the breathing timings, though!
• (2021-09-18) Eva Holupchinski - FS: Love this!! MIU is now my absolute favorite for mindful internet use. I've tried many extensions and apps to help my maintain focus and use the internet more mindfully, and this has been the most effective in terms of gently helping me stay on task. Highly recommended!
• (2021-08-28) Zachary Meckley: Feature change request: please remove "On-off" switch from easy access--it kind of defeats the purpose of anti-distraction software if you can just turn it off in a second!
• (2021-07-21) jitesh pabla: This is a simple and effective chrome extension! For the dev: The adding of websites in the block-list or even quotes in the reminders can only be done one at a time, right? It would be great to see if I could just copy and paste a list of URLs into the settings at once.
• (2021-07-19) hemang: pogU
• (2021-06-26) Kiron: Love the extension Henry, one feature request if its possible! Id like to be forced to write down what I am doing and set a timer instead of copying a quote so I can use these sites more intentionally. I think it would be a great additional function!
• (2021-05-19) Jacob Greenberg: Please make an app version of this. This application is really amazing and is probably the best at helping stop procrastination while browsing the internet.
• (2020-12-21) Arijit Das: Best productivity app.I just had one suggestion. Youtube videos currently doesn't resume. Will it be possible to fix it?
• (2020-12-03) Omar: It gets the job done
• (2020-11-28) Antique Pro: It is the best extension for productivity, as it is not just blocking site you want to enter by the habit, but makes you mindful so you can rethink your actions. Design is very beautiful and user friendly too, great job!
• (2020-11-25) Kyle Castrigno: Does most of what I need it to. The only issue I have is that when I set the timer to 5 minutes and browse youtube, it takes longer than 5 minutes to boot me out. I assume its because I'm inactive when the video is playing and the timer stops after 30 seconds of inactivity. If this issue was addressed I would give it 5 stars!
• (2020-11-19) Giacomo Grasso: simple but effective! thx ;)
• (2020-10-11) jh Han: it doesn't feel like repression. it just lets me think twice
• (2020-09-29) Dan Kirslis: So far I have found this to be the most effective productivity tool I've ever used. Instead of timers or website blockers, which can easily be gotten around when you want to browse mindlessly, this extension gets to the root of the issue: the mindlessness itself. Today, the web is built to be maximally addictive, and many of us are quite literally losing our minds to its optimized algorithms that 'feed' us the content we can consume most effortlessly. This extension is an important tool for our minds to fight back, and I hope that it is just the beginning of a broader movement to reclaim our mental autonomy on the web.
• (2020-06-30) Aaron Woods: I rarely write reviews, but I had to for this. Its amazing
• (2020-06-24) Piotr Mizgała: Hi! I really like the idea behind this app, and I look forward to use it - but in my case Breathing Page never stops, and I am not being let into the site. Or maybe it takes too long? I do not know how many breaths am i supposed to take. Please make it somehow more user friendly, or perhaps include an option for how many breaths do users want to take before entering the site. Thanksss
• (2020-03-26) Matthew Kundert: Best extension I could find for this purpose. It allows you to practice accountability instead of locking you out of sites entirely, which sucks when you need to use otherwise distracting websites for genuinely useful purposes. Although I do have another extension for that purpose so I can at least force myself to bed on time :). Clean and simple interface is nice. I'm surprised this doesn't have more users. There are a couple bugs which I detailed in feedback, but if these were to be ironed out I think it would easily be worthy of five stars.
• (2019-11-17) Gibb Son: Superb app, helps in breaking bad habits
• (2019-08-20) Jakob Halldin: Have been waiting for something like this for a long time. This helps you build better habits and creates a more conscious internet use.

Latest issues

• (2023-09-23, v:1.0.13) Constantino M. Valmaseda: Exceptions (white-list) for particular pages needed. This is why:
  Love it. Yet it does need to include a whilte-list to make exceptions for pages or subdomains from blocked domains. For example, many of us block news. I tend to go there "to be informed" (i.e. to procrastinate). Yet, many times there are important/interesting articles related with my research/projects that are cited somewhere. I don't want to stop my workflow for reading those. Also, I want to bookmark those already read or to be read, to reference them, or because they've been highlighted and don't want to stop my flow anytime I want to check something related with those. That we do frequently. White listing has already been suggested. Please give us a signal that you are actually considering this, so that we could keep using this (which I'd love to) instead of other similar apps. This one is a great implementation, so thanks a lot!!
• (2023-08-06, v:1.0.13) Anurag: Block certain sub domain
  Is there a way to only block sub domain like - "youtube.com" not "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=art" as I use YouTube to search for helpful videos? what I mean is I only find home page distracting everything else is useful
• (2023-07-07, v:1.0.13) punpun: Whitelist
  Hi, any chance of getting an option for a whitelist approach? As in, 'block' everything, except allowed sites.
• (2023-05-25, v:1.0.13) Rob Storm: White listing sub domains
  Hello! I'd love to be able to white list sections, for instance I'd love to blacklist reddit.com and reddit.com/r/all but whitelist reddit.com/* to prevent surfing, but still can google search for references. Thanks!
• (2022-11-06, v:1.0.12) Golam Rabbany: Lock out evey X minutes
  Hello dear developer. It's a great extension. Please make me predefine that youtube will be lock for breathing evey 10 min. also need to block facebook from 6 to 10 am.
• (2022-06-20, v:1.0.8) Dalton Albinson: Allowance improvement
  For addicts like me this app is helpful but the problem comes when you wait out a set amount of time you get a screen that lets you pick how much time you want to use a website like youtube and you can set anywhere between 5to 120mins. Would be great if we could set this once in the settings and not allow to set it each time. I want to set it to 20minutes and LOCK IT with maybe a password. Currently, each time I end up allowing myself for 120mins which makes the extension less helpful than it could be.
• (2022-04-14, v:1.0.6) Steve R: Lost To Do
  Hi. What happened to the to do list, I have been using it for a while but have now lost my "to do". I didn't use anything else so hopefully I can remember what is in there. Sad loss to the extension.
• (2021-10-24, v:1.0.2) Ari Abramowitz: Great extension, no longer works in kiwi browser
  Hi, I have been using your extension for a while and it's great. One issue with it though - I used to be able to use it on my phone with kiwi browser (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowser.browser&hl=en&gl=US), but that no longer works. I think this was caused by an update in kiwi at some point in the past few months. Can you fix the extension so it works with kiwi again? Thank you!
• (2020-11-20, v:0.3.2) Alejandro Juul: Opening new tabs after time limit reached
  Hello - I just discovered this extension and I've really enjoyed using it, it has been fantastic so far! I just had one quick question/note I was wondering if you could help me out with. After going through the steps to enter a mindless website and setting a time limit, I usually find myself using "command+tab" to bring up associated links (ex: a suggested video on YouTube) in a new tab. Once the timer is up, if I navigate to that new tab to continue interacting with the mindless website, I noticed that I do not have to go through the usual breathing process steps to do so. Also, sometimes there is a delay in the initiation of this process when clicking on a new link directly from that same initial page even after the timer has expired (ex: sometimes it takes me clicking 2 links in the same tab for the breathing process page to be initiated). I find that most of my mindless browsing time spent is a result of opening up associated/related links from the initial tab of the mindless site using the "open link in new tab" function (like opening the comments of a reddit post in a new tab and then reading through those). I was wondering if there was any way to allow for the extension breathing pop-up to be initiated for each of these mindless website tabs stemming from the original one after the time limit has been reached for the website as a whole. I think that would be super helpful - thanks so much!!!
• (2020-03-26, v:0.0.0.16) Matthew Kundert: Couple bugs/feedback
  Searching for a 'mindless' website on a google search and clicking the link brings up a chrome error page stating, "Requests to the server have been blocked by an extension." It's fixed by opening a new tab and going to the same mindless site directly, and then switching back to the original tab, where the extension will now be working. I've also noticed that if I set the time to five minutes when entering a mindless website, after five minutes have passed, the extension won't pop back up until you reload the website or click a link. If this is by design, then that's fine, but it was the behavior I was expecting in any case. I'd also like if I could just hit enter after typing the quote to be let in with 5 minutes, I stick to the keyboard as much as possible and don't like having to reach over for the mouse.