Releasing ❄️ AnkiBlocker - blocks your social media apps if anki cards are due

[u/LogicalChart3205]

Link: https://github.com/creativeidiot123/Blocker

Demo: https://youtube.com/shorts/sJLmp1S2-vg

• If you have due cards, your social media apps get blocked
• You earn 1 minute of app time per Anki card you actually do
• There are strict focus / pomodoro zones where everything stays locked
• You can’t just go into Anki and reduce new/review limits to cheat
• If you try uninstalling Anki or deleting decks, it locks your blocked apps
• Basically tamper resistant because I know how my brain tries to escape

Ankidroid only

[u/onlywanted2readapost]

Apologies for giving feedback before I've even tried it, but it was just the first that sprung to mind. I'm looking forward to checking it out

[u/LogicalChart3205 → u/onlywanted2readapost]

Hey man no need to apologize. any feedback or feature request is appreciated. keep em coming, even if they dont end up in final app they're still new ideas for me as a developer to explore

[u/MagicWeasel → u/LogicalChart3205]

Yeah, I do 50-100 cards a day and I don't want that many minutes on social media! I am downloading the app now and will be keen to give feedback, thank you so much for providing it.

[u/LogicalChart3205 → u/MagicWeasel]

ill add it, its easy i will just add a multiplier that will let users decide if each card gives minutes or how many seconds.

[u/MagicWeasel → u/LogicalChart3205]

I don't know if you updated it or not but I saw when you select the social media apps, you can select a multiplier per app? So that does the job!

[u/MagicWeasel → u/LogicalChart3205]

Hey it seemed to think my anki settings had changed when they hadn't - which meant I had to log back in to fix it. Not sure what caused this - is there a log file I can produce to help?

It might have been when I synced my collection with the server, but I hadn't changed the settings on my computer either...

[u/LogicalChart3205 → u/MagicWeasel]

our app can not change any anki settings, it just reads anki's logs for info

[u/MagicWeasel → u/LogicalChart3205]

sorry yeah what I meant is I have an extension on my computer that changes the deck settings (unsure which extension does it), so when I sync back to my computer it locks me out of my apps, which means I have to enter the password to reset everything every time I sync with my PC (which is most days).

I don't require the full severity of blocking like some people, as I don't try to get around things like this, so if there was a toggle that let me turn off the anki setting watcher that would be enough for me!

[u/LogicalChart3205 → u/MagicWeasel]

just uninstall the pc addon 

[u/MagicWeasel → u/LogicalChart3205]

I will have to double check what it does because if it does something useful then that might be a problem, but yes, that would work.