Redirect Loop

You already know what you should be doing. The trouble is that it's six taps away, and Instagram is one. Most blockers put a grey wall in front of the app you reached for. A wall is an argument, and the wall usually loses, because what's behind it is easy and the work is not. Redirect Loop shows you the next step instead. One physical action, small enough to start without deciding anything first. Open the file. Write one bad sentence. Copy out the line you're stuck on. HOW IT WORKS Name the one thing you've been putting off. Choose how long to go for, and which apps pull you in. When you reach for one of them mid-session, you don't get a wall. You get your own task back, with its next step already broken down, and two buttons: Back to work, or I'm stuck. "I'm stuck" is the point. It's the same tap as unlock, and the opposite psychology. WHEN IT'S STILL TOO BIG Ask for it smaller, and it…