How 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.
What the video shows
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Install Redirect and add the sites that steal your study time, like YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.
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Write down what you need to finish today, like two chapters and one practice test.
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Now when you reach for YouTube, you land on your study goals instead.
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Need a break? Take one, after a short task, and you come back when it ends.
Read the transcript
You open your laptop to study, and somehow end up on YouTube. Here is a setup that fixes that. Install Redirect and add the sites that steal your study time, like YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. Write down what you need to finish today, like two chapters and one practice test. Now when you reach for YouTube, you land on your study goals instead. Need a break? Take one, after a short task, and you come back when it ends. Get Redirect at heyredirect.com.
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Close the tab. Open your goals.
Redirect sends distracting sites to the goals you wrote down, and makes every pause a choice.
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