Kedge: Screen Time & Focus

Kedge makes your phone boring for a while. That is the whole trick. Pick the apps that get you. Choose when they are shut. When you reach for one anyway, Kedge is already in the way. WHAT IT DOES Block on demand. Start a block for fifteen minutes, two hours, or until you end it yourself. Block on a schedule. Mornings until ten. Evenings after nine. It arms itself and runs with Kedge closed. Block after a daily limit. Give yourself an hour of something. When the hour is gone, so is the app, until tomorrow. THREE LEVELS OF FRICTION The point of Kedge is not that blocking is impossible. It is that leaving early costs something. Gentle — unlock one app for five minutes from the block screen, as often as you like. For when you actually did need the thing. Firm — a sixty-second wait, then the block ends. Three times a day. Strict — type forty random characters, exactly. Once a day. Strict can…