To pass the tarmac time, I could watch a bunch of downloaded episodes of The Crown or The Great British Baking Show. In the past year, I've taken roughly a dozen round trips, each with their own fun, idiosyncratic layovers and delays. Others include GateKeeper, which makes you wait a few seconds before loading a page you’ve been trying to give up, and the devilish 1Minute Assassin, which kills a tab after 60 seconds. One of them is the timer that now haunts me on Twitter, a nudge called the Supervisor. It also offers a menu of “nudges” to help keep those trend lines moving in the right direction. HabitLab will then keep track of your wasted seconds, minutes, and hours and display them in neat charts. When first installed, it prompts you to identify the sites you want to spend less time on. HabitLab was developed by Stanford’s Human Computer Interaction group to help those of us suffering internet distraction disorder (most of us?) take control of our online habits. The message comes with a different “Good job!” GIF each time most recently it was Jimmy Kimmel. If I open a Twitter tab but regain my senses and close it again quickly, a pop-up informs me how many seconds I just saved compared to my usual time-wasting visit. Anytime I look at the bird-logoed slot machine of trolling, outrage, and thinkfluencing, there’s now a bold banner at the top counting how long I’ve been on the site that day. My name is Tom and I have a Twitter problem-but I’m getting help from a Chrome extension called HabitLab. But why force yourself to press two keys when you can install this extension and press only one? The preferred keystroke of Alt + left arrow is still the default in Chrome, and maybe you're used to that now. Thankfully, the company recognized our plight and just weeks later released this extension, which restores the back-button functionality of the backspace key. Google had neutered one of the most useful mechanisms for navigating the web. But imagine the outrage of millions of Chrome users when, upon the next browser update, the backspace key suddenly did nothing. When a user typed into a browser text field and hit the backspace key hoping to correct a typo, they'd sometimes inadvertently cause the browser to jump back one page, nuking whatever efforts they'd spent the last few minutes sweating over. But Google removed the backspace action that summer, because it caused a particularly Googley problem: People were losing work in web apps. By mid-2016, this action-a simple keystroke to go back one page in your browser history-had become hardwired in our lizard brains. It had been that way since the browser's launch some eight years prior. Up until that point, the backspace key on your desktop keyboard doubled as a back button in Chrome. Besides, you'd gladly pay more if you knew what it can do for your (organization, focus, workflow, training, management, many hats, sanity.In July of 2016, the world changed for the worse. Each workspace can do a lot, and learning to use less is to your benefit. as others have pointed out, the free version is limited to 10 workspaces. That cost me a night of sleep and two pots of coffee, so maybe they could make it easier? One last point. I've managed to combine a few other extensions and get Workona to link to network shares and even edit in place. I would also like to see customization options like themes, webframes & embedded content (say, for monitoring dashboards, chat, and sharepoint). Hopefully, they won't try to do it all and will let us integrate with our own task apps. Now that tasks and notes are added (how can you really manage a session without that?), I'm gonna say it's a keeper. Other extensions will sometimes conflict with Workona, so I use SimlpeExtManager to turn off known offenders as needed. Teamsync Bookmarks was off to a good start for syncing team resources, but when Edge (for Work) started syncing extensions it was too much trouble to stop duplicates. Cloud based managers are just too slow for most people at work. I settled on Workona because the interface is local (fast), the data is in the cloud (sync/backup) and the developers keep the features coming. I've tried a bunch of tab managers (maybe dozens) as I've stumbled my way through social distancing and virtual teamwork in my small business. AdaptableHachiman's Experience If you do a lot of research, learn on the fly, manage others, or you're just sick of your browser's bookmarks, try Workona.
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