Set a goal/intentions/note to Take a Break or before opening a distracting App

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#21

Comment By: Lacy Galtere

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#22

Pretty simple request,

Sometimes you have to do something actually productive on apps such as Instagram or Facebook but get dragged into scrolling through the feed. If we could have a notification that we have 5, 10 or any other number of minutes left (besides the default 1 minute) it could prompt us to do whatever we were gonna do initially.

#23

Hello All,

I am a Product Manager by profession and I understand how feature requests can sometimes be misleading or vague.

I would focus more on explaining the pain point and I am sure Opal team is good enough to figure out a solution for it. So the problem is that in my life I want to make more conscious decisions and feel in control of my time. I also suffer from phone addiction and specifically social media. I have started a practice where I think of the goal when I want to open a app because in most cases when I open apps mindlessly I often forgot what I opened it for and end up wasting more time then I should. And this is not just for social media but for other apps too. My brain is wired to open an app whenever I feel free, so Opal does a good job by allowing me to block those apps but sometimes I need to open the app for genuine reasons too.

Back on the feature request, the way I would solve it is to allow me to select goal based apps. When I open those app, give me a dropdown or a textbox to choose my objective. This would serve as a reminder and wire my brain to do that as the first thing. If I slip, Opal should detect that I am using the app for sometime and send a reminder that ā€œhave you achieved your goalā€. This way I can feel more in control of my time and donā€™t fall on the slipper slope of opening the app and wasting hours on it or just not achieve what I wanted to.

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#24

I notice the need for something like this specially when researching some useful stuff and finding an YouTube or Reddit link.
In this context it would be productive, but then I need to unblock myself to do the work Iā€™m doing at the moment.