Right now, the software prioritizes the whitelist over the blacklist. Pretty logical, otherwise a whitelist would be useless.
Whenever I use the whitelist, it's mostly to unblock a certain subpage of a blocked website. Though, to whitelist a site, it's nice to have a less strict protection then fully stopping the plan.
The issue with this is, you can whitelist the entire site you just blocked. If I wanted to whitelist a certain Youtube channel, or specific part of a news site, it's just as easy to just whitelist the whole site.
My suggestion: Make it so that the whitelist doesn't overrule the blacklist if a page from the blacklist is whitelisted.
If reddit.com is on the blacklist, make it so that reddit.com, www. reddit.com, https://reddit.com and https://wwww.reddit.com can't be whitelisted, or can't overrule the blacklist.
I don't know whether it's possible to easily implement this, but it would be pretty useful to me.
I have used your product for several months now, and though it has been useful in many ways, the issues I have had have made it too much of a headache to be worth continuing.
I feel I owe you at least the courtesy of explaining the issues, which aside from minor bugs that you have been good at cleaning up over time, are two major things.
1) There is no way to set a time window for the automatic break function, so that every time my work period is over, I either have to completely disable the program, or dig up the emergency password I have placed in a very inconvenient location to prevent me from using it too easily. If I do disable the program, it prevents me from benefiting from the useful shutdown timer to regulate my sleep schedule.
2) Randomly and without any commonalities that I can detect, the program will simply stop accepting the correct password when I attempt to disable the automatic break. And to be clear, I am 100% sure this is not a case of accidentally putting in the password wrong. This issue lasts for exactly one break period, after which it resumes accepting the exact same password, until a random later time when it happens again.
This has twice caused me to have issues with online sessions where I had forgotten to end the program and the computer locked up without a way to disable it until the break was over.
IF these issues are addressed, I will consider resuming my subscription, but until then, I feel the program causes more frustration for me than it solves.
That being said, I do appreciate what you are trying to do and I wish you and your company the best of luck.
It would be even better, if not only can you filter sites to limit search engines lets say, but enforce safe search. This would help further fill the gap so u can really prevent adult content just from search engines.
Hello! I was trying to figure out a better way to block unsafe search engines from the start. I am primarily using this for blocking adult content, as an adult. I've used similar tools, and they usually have a built-in filter that just blocks all unsafe search engines that cannot enforce safe search. So typically the only search engines that are allowed are Google and Bing.
I see that you have a Regex rule builder, but I was hoping I could suggest that with the app, you include a Plan that already has this built-in. Similar to the Adult Sites one.
I had a feature request for protecting plans/settings/etc. with passwords. In addition to the current options, something I've experienced in another tool is a random token that has a delayed time for the message. So basically, what you do is request to get a token which will be the random password to "unlock" something. This gets sent to the email for the account, or any other account you set.
With this, you can set a time frame of how long it takes to get the token. The default might be 1 hour or something.
Additionally, the other tool I've used lets you set an accountability partner that you trust (which must be approved by them), and instead of sending the token to you, it sends it to THEIR email. So instead of relying on having a person come over to your local machine to put the password in for you, this option would send THEM an email with the token and they would need to share it with you.
I hope you like the sound of this, and I think it would add a lot of value. Thanks!
When the Helper is displaying the url or the folder Location (or anything else) it'd be great to just click on it to copy it (to the clipboard) (like ctrl+c)
For my child's computer I have a plan that does the following:
Blocking Internet browser 24/7 with only certain allowed websites required for online school on the white list.
This allows him freedom to use the sites with no limits.
I want to run a second plan that will allow him his allotted time for video games on a weekly basis - with freedom as to when he uses it. It just counts down over the course of the week and when he is through, it blocks all the videogame sites and apps until the week is done.
I made the Video Game plan with a Time Limit Rule, and placed all video game apps and websites in the 'block'.
This Video Game plan conflicts with the Blocking Internet browser plan - in that the blocking internet browser won't allow the video game websites.
If I 'white list' the specific game websites he uses in the blocking Internet browser plan, will the Video Game plan still count the use of those sites against the timelimit set for the week? Or will this just confuse FM?
Anyone have experience doing this type of layering of plans to get desired effect?
Thanks
JL
First of all, thank you for this amazing application. One of the best purchases I ever made.
The application is almost perfect for me. But there is one feature I badly want to see added.
I use Focusme to cope with certain addictions, and for the most part, it works great. I have constructed several plans and I use the "just block" feature with the daily/weekly schedule (I select the 24h period for each day of the week), and then I "force" block the plan.
However, I never create a plan for more than two weeks in advance (I just don't feel able to do so, and also, there are settings that I want to modify once in a while [e.g., allow sync] and that is not possible while a plan is active).
When I approach the end date of my plan, I would like to have a button to postpone the end date while the plan is still active. Otherwise, I have to clone the plan, schedule another end date on the cloned plan, and delete the original plan once its end date is reached.
I know that you can postpone the timer when using the "time limit" option, but then I have to calculate manually how long I need to set the timer for it to end up on the same date as previously created plans (e.g. to change a feature in the setting menu), and that is not practical.
For me, this feature would complete an already awesome application.
Sorry if this was requested before - couldn't find anything.
It'll be great if plans can be synced between desktop and mobile. On my Mac, I have a vast number of rules and blocked websites. It'll take me an hour (minimum) to copy and type everything into FocusMe Android. It's a large chunk of time I'd prefer not to spend. If syncing is too troublesome to implement anytime soon, at the very least we should be able to export and import text lists (of websites to block). That way, if I change phones or do a factory reset, I wouldn't need to enter everything from scratch.
Right now I only have a fraction of the websites (blocked on my laptop) also blocked on my new phone, simply because entering it all is so difficult. I'll get it done eventually, but I already had multiple instances of procrastinating on my phone because of this.
