Redirect videos
Short, narrated walkthroughs. Each one shows a single setup in Redirect, the Chrome extension that sends distracting sites to your goals, in under a minute.
Students
Study setups that keep lectures and drop the feeds.
Length 0:31How to stop scrolling and start studying
Block the sites that steal your study time and land on your study goals instead. Breaks are still there, after a short task.
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Length 0:27Exam season: block everything except your lectures
Block YouTube, keep your lecture channels as allowed channels, and give the rule a study-hours schedule until your last exam.
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Length 0:25How to study with YouTube without getting distracted
Block YouTube but allow your course channels: their videos play, Shorts and everything else lead back to your goals.
Watch the video →YouTube and Reels
Keep the parts of YouTube and Instagram you want, lose the loops.
Length 0:24The Chrome extension for YouTube distraction
Skip the YouTube home feed, turn off Shorts, keep the channels you choose, and put a short task before extra breaks.
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Length 0:24How to stop watching Reels on your laptop
One path rule for instagram.com/reels blocks the Reels loop, even when you tap in from inside the app. Messages and your profile keep working.
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Length 0:27How to quit YouTube without deleting your account
Block YouTube, keep a few channels you value, and write down why before watching anything else. Your past reasons are shown back to you.
Watch the video →Routines
Bedtime, work from home and deep work, set up once.
Length 0:26How to stop scrolling before bed (on your laptop)
Give your feeds an overnight schedule from 22:00 to 07:00. After ten you land on tomorrow’s goals, and breaks end on time.
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Length 0:25How to focus when working from home
Write three goals, block your usual escapes during work hours, and write down why before a break. After work everything opens as normal.
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Length 0:26Productivity tip for developers: kill the tab-switch reflex
Block X, Reddit and Hacker News while you code, and use a 60 second wait as your break task. By the time it is done, so is the build.
Watch the video →Habit science
Why you reach for a feed, and what actually changes it.
Length 0:28Why you open YouTube without thinking
A cue triggers a routine and a quick reward keeps the loop going. Change what happens after the cue: same click, but you land on your goals.
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Length 0:27Do not block distracting sites, redirect them
A blocked page says what you cannot do. A redirect gives you somewhere better to be: the same click now leads to your goals.
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Length 0:28A 7-day dopamine detox for your browser
One week away from endless feeds: block your top three on day one, add a task before breaks by day three, and look at your redirects on day seven.
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Length 0:28Why ten seconds of friction beats willpower
Put a small task between the urge to check a site and the site itself. The pause gives you a moment to decide, and often the urge fades; in a PNAS study of the app one sec, people closed the target app in 36% of attempts after a short pause.
Watch the video →Guides
Short walkthroughs that go with our written guides.
Length 0:45How to install Redirect
Install Redirect from the Chrome Web Store, pin it, add your first site, and the next time you open it you land on your goals instead.
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Length 0:44How to block websites on Chrome
Chrome has no built-in site blocker. Here is the simplest way: add the site to Redirect, choose the whole site, a path or a pattern, and you land on your goals instead.
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Length 0:36How to block YouTube Shorts on Chrome
Block only YouTube Shorts on your computer with one path rule, youtube.com/shorts. Regular videos, search and subscriptions keep working.
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Length 0:39How to stop doomscrolling on your computer
Doomscrolling rarely starts on purpose. Redirect catches you inside Instagram, X and Reddit, sends you to your goals, and makes every break cost a small task.
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Length 0:36How to block websites during work hours
Give a rule a schedule, Monday to Friday, nine to five, and the site is blocked only while you work. Each rule has its own hours, and overnight windows work too.
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Length 0:40A website blocker with a typing challenge
Redirect makes every break cost effort: type a short passage exactly, no pasting, then the site opens for the time you picked with a floating timer.
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Length 0:30How to block YouTube homepage recommendations
Block only the YouTube home page with a homepage-only pattern rule and land on your Subscriptions instead. Search and videos keep working.
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Length 0:33How to stop the YouTube rabbit hole
Close the doors that pull you deeper: block Shorts with a path rule, send the home page to Subscriptions, allow the channels you learn from and cap breaks with a daily pause limit.
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Length 0:34How to limit YouTube time on Chrome
Set a daily YouTube cap: pause length times the daily pause limit. Twenty minute pauses, three a day, is one hour at most, with a floating timer showing what is left.
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Length 0:32How to quit Reddit on your computer
Block reddit.com, land on your goals instead, and make every visit start with a written reason. Your past reasons are shown back to you.
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Length 0:31How to stop procrastinating online
Write up to three goals, block the sites you escape to, and the next time you slip your goals are what you see. Add a schedule for work hours.
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Length 0:28A website blocker that works with ADHD
For impulsive clicks, a gentle detour works better than a wall: land on your goals, take breaks after a breathing pause or a 60 second wait, and get sent back when the break ends.
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Length 0:30A website blocker with a password? Try this instead
A password on your own blocker only works if you forget it. Redirect uses effort instead: a task before every break, a long paragraph to turn everything off, and a daily pause limit.
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Length 0:32Is Redirect safe? What it can see and why
Redirect is a focus extension, not a redirect virus. Install it from the official Chrome Web Store listing, see what each permission is for, and know your data stays in your browser.
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Length 0:32Why website blockers do not work, and what does
A wall invites workarounds. Redirect sends you to your goals instead, adds a small task before breaks, and brings you back when a break ends.
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