ffocus

🔍 ffocus

A CLI tool to temporarly disable distracting websites and boost your productivity 👌

install

npm i ffocus -g

usage

ffocus adds temporary rules to /etc/hosts to resolve distracting websites to localhost.

Because of that you need sudo rights to run it but don't worry it doesn't do anything nasty.

~ $ ffocus

Usage: ffocus [minutes] [host1 host2 host3 ...]

Options:

  -h, --help                output usage information
  -a, --add <host>          adds a new host
  -r, --remove <host>       removes an existing host
  -t, --duration <minutes>  sets the duration for a preset
  -p, --preset <name>       a preset
  -l, --list                lists all the presets
  -V, --version             output the version number

basic usage

sudo ffocus 60 facebook.com twitter.com

presets

You can create as many preset as you want.

Each preset is stored in ~/ffocus.json and has a name, minutes, and a list of hosts to block.

{
  "presets": {
    "work": {
      "minutes": 60,
      "sites": [
        "facebook.com",
        "twitter.com"
      ]
    }
  }
}

When you --add a new preset ffocus creates an entry if it can't find an existing preset.

sudo ffocus -p work -a web.whatsapp.com
sudo ffocus -p work -t 30

and then run it

sudo ffocus -p work

troubleshooting

If ffocus doesn't work you:

• are not on macos or unix
• might need to flush your DNS cache
• the browser caches too try to close it, go incognito or something
• it is fucked up and buggy – very likely

license

MIT