Distraction Free

Stay focused on the task at hand.

Turn on/off access to distracting sites with a single command in your terminal. (Linux & OS X)

Install

To install, download and place the distraction_free.sh script inside of a directory of your choice and chmod it to 755. I will assume that you are inside of a directory called "scripts" inside of your user's $HOME directory.

mkdir ~/scripts
cd ~/scripts
curl -O "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/obber/distraction_free/master/distraction_free.sh"
chmod 755 distraction_free.sh

(If you download the file into a different directory, adjust file paths as needed for the instructions below.)

Customize Which Sites to Disable

To customize, open distraction_free.sh in a text editor and replace facebook.com and youtube.com (lines 5 and 6) or append to the variable with whatever tickles your fancy.

# Distracting sites to be disabled. Do not include a www version.
SITES_TO_DISABLE="
facebook.com
youtube.com
more-entries.com
other-entry.com"

To Run

To turn it on:

sudo ~/scripts/distraction_free.sh on

To turn it off:

sudo ~/scripts/distraction_free.sh off

(The 'on/off' argument is required.)

Recommendations

Set an alias in your .bash_profile by adding something like:

alias dfree='sudo ~/scripts/distraction_free.sh'

which will allow you to run this instead (after restarting the terminal or sourcing .bash_profile):

dfree on
dfree off

Enjoy!