Could you get rid of the override when following links from the homepage but allow it when direct-linking into a post?
I wouldn't care about the override, except that I often have to refer back to previous topics for some technical advice, or end up coming across news.YC from a Google search. It's really frustrating to hit the noprocrast timeout in those cases, particularly since I'm usually doing work at the time.
You do, in a way. Only you lose real-life karma through diminished possibility for success :)
The procrast thing always seemed insanely odd to me. It's trivial to override and it seems like a diet plan akin to writing "don't eat me" on all the junk food in your house.
The procrast thing always seemed insanely odd to me.
Agreed. I imagine an ad, seen by a character in a Philip K. Dick novel:
"Noprocrast! The best way for current you to impose your will on future you, guaranteed! For the disciplinarian in all of us, at last, a ready and willing subject!"
Sometimes I pull up the site and it gently reminds me that I've spent a lot of time reading it lately.
Other times it's the weekend or I've left my window open for a while (is this how it works?) and I'd like to get back to the site. I've disabled the feature for now since there's no override.
The best way to acquire or extinguish a habit is with consistent, salient feedback. noprocrast is a tool that helps to remind and reinforce the user of their desire to not procrastinate. i think adding a captcha to the noprocrast page would make it more useful as it would require more thought than a simple click-through, which is easily habituated as well.
maybe more like google's gmail googles, where you have to solve 5 2-digit math problems in under 60 seconds. but this time, make them really freaking hard.
But, no, I'd just as soon not have override at all.
I wouldn't care about the override, except that I often have to refer back to previous topics for some technical advice, or end up coming across news.YC from a Google search. It's really frustrating to hit the noprocrast timeout in those cases, particularly since I'm usually doing work at the time.