Mindful Browsing Mindful Browsing

Productivity
Version: 1.2.6
Last Update: 2021-01-30

Overview

Mindful Browsing is a Chrome extension developed by Ink and Feet. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of Mindful Browsing is 1.2.6, updated on 2021-01-30.
10,000+ users have installed this extension. 45 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .
developer website: www.mindfulbrowsing.org

Beautifully interrupts mindless browsing, and gets you back to your life.

Entirely in your control.
You specify which sites you'd like to be mindful about your time on, and provide a list of things you'd generally rather do instead.

Mindful Browsing doesn't block you from visiting sites - it simply asks if you'd like to visit, and if so, reminds you 10 minutes later.

Beautiful.
Mindful Browsing features stunning photographs from some of the world's best landscape photographers. If you're a photographer and are interested in having your work featured, email [email protected].

Free. Open. Safe.
Mindful Browsing was built by me, Steven Skoczen, to help with my own mindless browsing. Friends liked it, so I made it available for free on the chrome store.

Mindful Browsing doesn't track any of your activity, and the code is open-source so that you (or a geeky friend) can verify nothing sneaky is going on.

I hope you Mindful Browsing makes your life a bit better. If you have ideas, I'd love to hear from you.

Note: If you're looking for a way to block sites entirely, there are a host of other extensions out there. Do a search for stay focused, or block site, or study blocker. A lot of people have built ways to completely block sites for a period of time. Mindful Browsing isn't one of them - we believe that it's better to learn to be mindful about browsing than relying on a computer to enforce it. Think of it this way: if you hurt your leg, in the long run, would you rather do rehab and build your muscles, or use crutches for the rest of your life? :)

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Version 1.2.6
- Updates to Chrome Extension V3 permissions. This means the extension no longer needs the tabs or webNavigation permissions. Hooray for fewer permissions!

Version 1.2.4
- Adds new images.

Version 1.2.2:
- Updates all images to SSL, so no warning appears on secured sites.

Version 1.2.1:
- Fixed a bug that was causing images not to load.

Version 1.2:
- Lots of new images, now changing daily
- Hides the confirmation for small popups (like Facebook and Twitter's "Authorize this app" screens.)
- Saves the daily image locally, for much faster and prettier responses.
- A few odds and ends, like better fonts support, some tweaked spacing, and other beauties.

Version 1.1:
- Fixes a couple bugs, including close button and empty lists.
- Makes edit popup easier to read.
- Even better credit of the incredible photographers we feature.

Version 1.0:
- Initial release.

Rating

45 ratings

Total Installs

10,000+

Information

Last Update

2021-01-30

Current Version

1.2.6

Size

435KiB

Author

Ink and Feet

Website

www.mindfulbrowsing.org

Category

Productivity

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avatar christine wilson
2021-09-10

Would be nice if there was some way to only have the blocker active during certain times of the day, so that outside of work hours I could use my browser freely. But for a free extension, this is super useful.

avatar Niranjana Arul
2021-07-13

Very simple to use, keeps me away from distracting apps, can also be used to prompt what to do instead of getting distracted.
Love this extension!!!

avatar Lenny
2020-08-19

Lovely concept and works well, I wish we can adjust the amount of time we can spend on a website, and be able to turn on and off the extension whenever we need to. Maybe have it prompt us to input a duration between 1-10 minutes so that we can think about how long we wanna spend on it, and after that amount of time we get asked to go back to work. :)

Sometimes it 'remembers' URLs that I've asked it to remove. Which is a bother, since we can't even turn off the extension for a period of time.

avatar Xico Caio
2020-07-20

It is the type of self-control tool I wanted, simple and not annoying. However, it takes to long to block the website, and it is not instantaneous as some other extensions. Also, the motivation placeholder web page could be more open to customization, as the motivation sentence is on a small font and with a transparency that makes it difficult to read.

avatar Kotov Dmitriy
2020-02-08

It doesn't work. I added some sites and nothing happend.