I want to prevent myself from being able to access the Steam Community pages ever again but I don't want to block the Steam app entirely. I'm going to attempt to figure out how to do this on my own but if anyone else has any solutions or advice that would be much appreciated.
Okay, I've figured something out. It's a bit unorthodox and not at all how I imagined it would be but it works. I have a plan set to block steamwebhelper.exe that minimizes it every time I try to do virtually anything on Steam. I can still open up Steam and click around for a bit before it minimizes it again, but this works; I can boot up my games (which I didn't want to block) with a few clicks here and there but getting sucked into the endless stream of Steam Community threads and artwork is now marginally more difficult.
I'm sure there was some kind of better solution I could've done with Regex but this works well enough.
The Pomodoro feature for FocusMe has served me well. It's allowed me to study my digital flashcards without having to force myself to. But I've been trying to figure out how to change the default sound effect and message that plays whenever the Pomodoro starts.
I'm ultimately trying to use FocusMe to gamify studying but it doesn't feel very much like a game when I see a message saying "Begin work!" with a default xylophone jingle, you know? So I'm trying to change that. I'm going to see if I can do it myself while this thread floats around, but I would like to know one of two things:
1. Is there a way to manually change them in the program files itself? (i.e. switching out a .wav file and replacing the default message in a text file or something)
2. Is there any hope that this will be added as a default feature?
I was unsure whether to put this in the Getting Help section or the Suggestions and Feedback section cause it kind of overlaps with both, but for now I'm putting it in the Getting Help section.
I've been using FocusMe for about a year now and I joined the forums to figure out even better ways to tailor it to my wants and needs.
Nice to meet you all.
I like the list functionality, except, well... it doesn't seem very intuitive, unless there's something I'm not understanding.
I have a saved list with a bunch of sites and a regex thing for blocking several different phrases found in titles. I've added this list to the blocklist for 6 plans. Often though, I'll think of a new phrase that I want to add to the list, but I figure I should just add it to the existing regex I have in the list. However, there doesn't seem to be any way to do this. I can only remove what's there or append an item to the list.
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I guess that's not a huge deal, just annoying. What IS annoying though, is that once I add a couple items to my list and save it, once I'm taken back to the blocklist screen for the plan I'm editing, the blocklist for the plan appears to be empty. What? I click Done to stop editing the plan, thinking maybe it just LOOKS like it's empty, but no--on the list of my plans, that plan now has 0 sites/titles blocklisted. So I have to edit a list, then re-add it to the plan it was already on?
Also, editing a saved list apparently doesn't update every plan using that list. So, since I'm using this saved list on 6 different plans, every time I change the saved list, I need to go to the edit screen for each plan and load that saved list again. Like I said, not intuitive.
Another thing I'm wondering if I'm missing... seems like the only way to edit a saved list is to edit a plan first, is that correct? Also not intuitive.
If I could just have one plan with a scheduled start at all the right times, this wouldn't be such a problem, but unfortunately that's not the case.
So recently I've changed to using the auto break system combined with the schedule mode and I have a request. Basically I don't always get started at the same time, but I like to have a little chunk of time to do what I like before I get locked out to force myself to do adult things. However, I noticed that the timer still retains it's countdown from the previous day, which can result in it going off basically the moment I turn on my computer.
So I'd like to request an option to set the plan to have the countdown reset at the beginning of the day and/or next block of time. I'd personally prefer either day or both, because I've had to set some blocks of time around certain events in the same day and that might cause some wierdness.
So the idea behind postpone seems to me that days vary and sometimes it's pretty inconvenient to get blocked in the middle of something, but it still needs to happen at some point.
The way it works now, any postponed time is subtracted from the block time, shortening the block. So if you postpone a 60 minute block period by 10 minutes, you are only blocked for 50 minutes.
So firstly, I'd like to ask for the option to have any postponed time added to the end of the block period, so it postpones the entire block time. For example, if you postpone a 60 minute block for any amount of time, then after the delay you still get blocked for the full 60 minutes. In addition, if it runs into a second block time, it's just added on to end of the block period.
This would let me account for daily variations without making me feel like the postpone option is just a way to shorten the block period, something I find myself abusing. With this way there would be no benefit to postponing if I'm not actually in the middle of something.
Secondly, I'd also like to have the option to set the postpone time from a pool of minutes, rather than a number of activations. For example, I could set it so I have a pool of 60 minutes, and if I delay my first block period by 15 minutes, then I can only delay the others by a maximum of 45 minutes. And with this, I'd also like the option to cancel a delay if I finish something early, and regain any "unspent" postpone time.
For the record, the first bit is FAR more important to me than the second, which would just be nice.
Apologies if either has been suggested before, but I rarely come to the forums unless I have something to suggest.
I have a plan which blocks by minimizing some game launchers (Steam, Epic Games, among others). It works correctly for the other launchers, but with the Epic Games Launcher, it only works at the beginning. After some seconds (I guess when it finishes loading), it doesn't get minimized anymore.
Does anyone get the same problem with Epic or another similar program?
Hello Everyone,