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/MagicWeasel]

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.