[wicker]

Just ignore me if you were joking, but do I have a serious question about exactly this. I've considered doing something like this for myself. Not an app, but I thought I might wrap my credit card in a bit of cardboard that says "Wait! Think! What are you doing?" as a speed bump against my compulsive spending.

Does this actually work for you? Do you open the app and it says "Don't drink, fuckface." and you're like "oh, right, OK. I won't." Or do you just blow right past it? I used to work in a shop with gruesome safety posters on the wall at work but after a couple of weeks, I stopped noticing them. I figure this would turn out to be something like that.

[evincarofautumn]

This used to be my home page, for a while: https://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~nkelhos/focus/

It was a useful reminder, not to avoid online distraction, but to address the issues (primarily stress) that made me distracted in the first place. Similar tactics have helped me abstain from drinking excessively.

I imagine this sort of thing would work for any compulsive behaviour—interrupt the symptom, but mainly so that you’re more mindful of fixing the cause.

[DiabloD3]

That home page... I love it. That is the best thing I've seen all day.