Redirect: Block Sites, Stay Focused, Digital Wellbeing
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Site blocker for focus and productivity. Redirect distracting websites like YouTube or Reddit to your goals. Mindful pauses. Redirect is a simple site blocker that sends you somewhere better. Open YouTube, Reddit, Instagram or any site you want to avoid, and you land on your goals instead. Most blockers are easy to switch off the moment you get bored. Redirect makes every escape cost a little effort, so you have a moment to decide if it is really worth it. HOW IT WORKS • Add a site, pick where it should send you: your focus dashboard or any URL you like • Block a whole site, a specific path like youtube.com/shorts, or a custom pattern • Keep exceptions, like one lecture channel on YouTube • One click to add popular distractions from the recommended list PAUSES THAT MAKE YOU THINK Need a site for a few minutes? Each rule has its own pause settings. Choose the lengths you allow and what you must do first: • Type a passage exactly, punctuation included (no pasting) • Write down why you need it, and see what you said last time • Solve a few math problems • Follow a slow breathing exercise You can also cap how many pauses a rule allows per day. NO SNEAKING AROUND • When a pause ends, Redirect catches you even if you are already on the site mid scroll. Single page apps like YouTube are checked on every in-app navigation, not just on page reload • Turning off, deleting or loosening an active rule requires the same task as pausing it • Switching off all redirects requires typing a long paragraph FOCUS DASHBOARD • Write up to three goals and see them every time you open the dashboard • See redirects per day, which sites pull you in most, and a log of every pause with your reasons MORE • Schedules: only block during work hours or on certain days • Export all your rules to a file and import them later, merging or replacing • Light and dark mode • Keyboard shortcut to open the dashboard (Alt+Shift+F) PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your rules, goals and history stay on your device. No account, no analytics, no tracking. Site icons are loaded from Google's favicon service. Close the tab. Open your goals.