This is maybe a weird request, but I’m looking for a way to send myself some information at a specific time in the future. Basically, it’s because I’ve got a few sites that are huge distractions for me at the moment, and I can’t stop checking my accounts, responding to messages, etc. My willpower is so low, and I’ve got a lot of important work right now and it’s starting to really mess up my life.
So my plan is to change the passwords to my accounts to a long random string, then save that string somewhere that I can’t access for X days. I imagined a simple way would be to use a site that would send me an email on a date, and the content of that email would be my random passwords. But my web searches only seem to find pages telling me how to schedule my own emails, which isn’t what I need.
Any advice / suggestions?
(also, in case anyone is thinking it, the sites I’m trying to block access to are all linked to the same email account, and I’m also going to change its password, so I won’t easily be able to reset them).
Edit: FutureMe is exactly the site I was thinking of, thanks lemmings!
I don’t know of any specific sites for this, but if you can’t find one you could always print the passwords and keep them in the care of someone you trust.
You may want to consider that as a backup either way, in case the site you use breaks and you can’t reset your email password.
i mean, you basically just described a calendar app…so…a calendar? Most calendar applications/services are capable of sending email reminders.
It may not be exactly what you’re looking for but I used to send myself time capsule emails through this website called FutureMe a few years ago. Unsure if it’s still up and not going to check, but it might be worth looking into for you
Perfect! That is exactly what I was looking for! I was sure that something like that existed, and I’m glad it’s still going. Thank-you!
Can you just have separate desks, one for work, one for distractions? Forbid distractions at the work desk, and set times you have to be there?
That’s good advice in general, and thanks for saying it? I’m sure some people benefit from that kinda structure. But ‘forbid’ is sadly not a power I have over myself. And it’s not just work time, I’ve spent hours every morning and night this week, and all day when I’m doing work or just trying to shower or cook food and I’m constantly stopping to check my indox and reply to messages and update my feed. Simple shit that should take ten minutes end up taking an hour because I can’t stop getting distracted.
But it’s particularly bad combo of stress, adhd, and the addictive design of social networking apps. I can just about manage two of the three, but this week has been real bad.
Sounds a bit like how I used to use facebook.
I disabled my account to stop it.
Yeah, that’s my long-term plan. But I can’t bring myself to do it right now. I feel like I have a month or whatever without posting, relalise I’m happier without it, I can then close my account. Right now I feels too big a step!
I probably wouldn’t trust any free reminder site with all my most important passwords
Do you have a friend or parent who can schedule an email from their account? If you don’t trust them with your passwords you could also just encrypt the whole thing first. I did something similar to this with screen limit settings while my girlfriend had the password, and it made me never want to access them badly enough to ask her.
One other thing that’s worked well for me - a kitchen safe timer. I lock up my phone in one at work and get so much more done. You could also theoretically lock your passwords in there too (from minutes to 10 days)
Anyway, congrats on procrastinating by exploring ways on not procrastinating
It’s actually one of the things I like about lemmy. I don’t feel like I get hooked in the same way as other sites, because there’s less of an infinite scroll. So getting some advice and entertainment, but not losing 12 hours a day!
And I think getting my partner to have some of my passwords might be a good idea. But it doesn’t work for me if it’s screen time locks and stuff like that. Last time I tried that (locking with a long unmemorable password and leaving it at home) I just factory reset my device to get it back working…
The timer safe sounds like it would work! Thanks!
Just make a bitwarden account, add the new passwords there, and give the master password to someone you trust. Then they change the mater pass and when the day comes they can tell you this new password and you’ll be able to access all your saved passwords again.
