If you find yourself spending more time scrolling through your favorite websites than actually working, you’re not alone. This is a widespread problem, and with technology being indispensable to daily life, we need strict limits on our screen time if we don’t want to lose time to digital distractions. Whether it’s your smartphone buzzing when…
At Freedom, we love our users – not just because they use our product, but because they’re cool – cool people working on cool stuff. Academy Award-nominated screenwriters, bestselling authors, editors, journalists, developers, illustrators, designers, academic researchers, explorers, and entrepreneurs – the Freedom community is packed with curious, creative, and efficient go-getters. We love to share their stories and advice, because…
WORKING IN THE AGE OF DISTRACTION Do you find it hard to focus? Do you often find yourself frustrated after diving down an internet loophole only to find that hours have passed with nothing to show? You’re not alone. Don’t believe me? Here’s a Google Trends graph showing the number of people searching “can’t focus”…
The most effective way to study or do deep work is to focus on one thing at a time. Freedom’s Block All Except feature helps you to do just that.
For many of us, a workout is one of those mainstays on our to-do lists that always keeps getting put off. The intention is there. But by the time we finish juggling all the meetings and last-minute deadlines, 3 a.m. emails and personal obligations, all we can do is collapse in the couch. Maybe you’ve…
At Freedom, we love our users – not just because they use our product, but because they’re cool – cool people working on cool stuff. Academy Award-nominated screenwriters, bestselling authors, editors, journalists, developers, illustrators, designers, academic researchers, explorers, and entrepreneurs – the Freedom community is packed with curious, creative, and efficient go-getters. We love to share their stories and advice, because…
Have you caught yourself browsing page 7 of /r/funny for the third time this week – and it’s only Monday? You’re not alone. In May 2018, Reddit overtook Facebook to be the third most popular site in the U.S. (after Google and Youtube) with over 542 million monthly users and over 1.2 million subreddits. As…
On Saturday, April 27, the New York Times published “Apple Cracks Down on Apps That Fight iPhone Addiction.” The article features Freedom and describes the systematic removal of tools that monitor or limit screen time from the iOS App Store. Apple’s response to the article primarily focuses on the removal of apps that use Mobile…