A new application (only available for Macs) offers a form of “self-binding” to keep yourself from succumbing to the siren song of the Internet.
Developed by a graduate student (no surprise there), the app, called Freedom, blocks your Internet access for up to eight hours at a stretch.
A low tech version of this strategy is to find a coffee shop without internet access, if such a thing exists anymore, or print out what you’re working on — on real paper — and head somewhere without your computer! Just a few hours. You’ll be amazed by how much you can get done.
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Rescue Time can also be a useful application to block distractions and to keep track of the time spent using different software or even documents.
http://www.rescuetime.com/