You already know what you should be doing.
The trouble is that it’s six taps away, and Instagram is one.
Most blockers put a grey wall in front of the app you reached for. A wall is an argument, and the wall usually loses, because the thing on the other side of it is easy and the work is not.
This one shows you the next step instead. One physical action, small enough to start without deciding anything. Open the file. Write one bad sentence. Copy out the line you’re stuck on.
For iPhone and iPad.
How the loop works
Name one thing
The thing you’ve been putting off. It doesn’t have to be big.
Choose how long, and what pulls you in
Any length you like. Apple’s own picker chooses the apps, so your choices never leave your phone.
Reach for the feed, get your work back
Your own task, its next step already broken down, and two buttons. Back to work, or I’m stuck. “I’m stuck” is the point: the same tap as unlock, and the opposite psychology.
When it’s still too big, ask for smaller
And it gets smaller, until it’s something you can do without thinking about it.
Windows that run on their own
Set the hours you want held. Any times, any days, or a one-off for a particular date. They open and close by themselves so you don’t have to remember, and ending a session lifts everything until the next one begins.
A record, not a scoreboard
Sentences, not charts. What you actually did, in your own words. It counts the times you reached for a blocked app and went back to work, because those are the wins. It never shows you what you failed to do.
Private by construction
Blocking uses Apple’s Screen Time. Your choices go through Apple’s picker and come back as tokens the app cannot read. It cannot see which apps you blocked, or anything you do inside them. No account, no analytics, no ads. The privacy policy says it in full.
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