Asks you to clarify what your focus is and to timebox that intention. As a result, you need less conscious control to stay focused.

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0.1.0
Update
September 30, 2021
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89.27KiB
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Users
7
Rating
5 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
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Effortless - Make Focus Your Default Extension

I've used browsers for more than a decade. I'm consistently distracted when interacting with them. I gradually learned more about myself and improved my focus, but I wanted even greater focus. I wondered: \"What if it was effortless to stay focused on the web?\". That question was the seed for this extension.

Our brains are very good at planning (executive function) but poor at executing those plans (cognitive control). We set lofty goals for ourselves, but in the words of Adam Gazzaley, neuroscientist and co-author of The Distracted Mind: \"our limited cognitive control abilities leads to interference.\"

Clear goals are what trigger focus. When you set a goal, your brain begins managing attention, memory, sub-goals so you can take action. However, our brain's control over those functions isn't fine-tuned, so it's sensitive to interference. Interference is anything that derails the process of accomplishing a goal. You can understand interference as two distinct kinds. First, distraction or information irrelevant to your goal. Second, interruption or stopping traction towards a goal before it is complete to start a new goal.

The Effortless extension assists your cognitive control abilities by asking you to make your goal explicit when using the browser and set a time box for that intention. The aim is to make it easier to keep your attention focused on a single goal until it's complete.

When you visit a page without a goal set, a prompt to enter your goal and the time you assign that goal appears. Once you've set your goal, a timer will appear on the pages you visit, reminding you of your goal. If you interrupt your goal and start a new one, you can click the \"Interrupt\" sidebar button. If you complete your goal, you can click the \"Complete\" sidebar button. At which point, the extension will prompt you again to enter your goal.
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Source Manifest.json

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How to download and manually install Effortless - Make Focus Your Default extension for Chrome

Looking for a way to install Effortless - Make Focus Your Default extensions for Chrome, you can search for them in the Chrome Web Store, clicking the "Add to Chrome" button, and following the straightforward process.

However, you may need to install Effortless - Make Focus Your Default extensions manually, this article outlines two simple methods to effortlessly install Effortless - Make Focus Your Default extensions, whether they come as unpacked folders in compressed formats like .zip or as .crx files.

Method 1: Download Effortless - Make Focus Your Default extension and manually install through Drag &Drop

If you ever need to manually install a Effortless - Make Focus Your Default extension for Chrome, don't worry, it's a simple process. Just follow these easy steps, and you will have your extension ready to use in no time.

Step 1: Download the Effortless - Make Focus Your Default Extension by clicking the "Download CRX" button on the website.

Look for the Effortless - Make Focus Your Default extension you wish to install. Go to the website and download the Effortless - Make Focus Your Default extension package, which is usually a .CRX file and comes in a zipped file. Here ".crx" file is the format for Effortless - Make Focus Your Default extension that contains all the data.

Step 2: Extract &Arrange Files

Once the file is downloaded, extract that file into its own folder. Similarly, give that extension files a permanent home. In other words, keep it in a folder that you don't accidentally delete it because these files will be needed to make that extension work.

Step 3: Go to the Chrome Extensions Page

Open Google Chrome and in the address bar, type chrome://extensions; it will open the Google Chrome extensions page. Make sure that "My extensions" is selected in the sidebar.

Step 4: Drag and Drop the Extension

Now, go to the folder where you extracted the Effortless - Make Focus Your Default extension and drag &drop the extension file from there anywhere onto the extension page within Google Chrome.

Step 5: Complete the Installation

Once you drag and drop the extension file, follow the steps that Google Chrome takes you through. Similarly, if the extension file is of .crx file format, you will be required to review the permissions and then add the extension.

Now, you can manage that added extension as you would like to with any other Chrome extension that you added through Chrome Webstore. Its icon will also appear in the Google Chrome Menu on the right side of the address bar once you activate it.

Method 2: Download Effortless - Make Focus Your Default extension for Chrome and install in Developer Mode

This is another method to install Effortless - Make Focus Your Default extension manually, but the twist is that here, you install by enabling the developer mode option provided in Google Chrome. This mode is commonly used for testing extensions or running unpublished tools.

Step 1: Download the Effortless - Make Focus Your Default extension file

Select and download the Effortless - Make Focus Your Default extension by clicking the 'Download CRX' button on the website.

Step 2: Extract the downloaded contents

Convert the file to a ZIP file if it is in CRX format then extract the Effortless - Make Focus Your Default extension zip file or folder that you downloaded. Make sure you extract it using the same folder name and keep it safely in another folder, so you don't delete it by mistake. The extracted folder will be needed to keep your Effortless - Make Focus Your Default extension running.

Step 3: Open Chrome Extension Setting Page

In the address bar of Google Chrome, type chrome://extensions and open the Chrome Extension Page.

Step 4: Enable Developer Mode

After opening the Chrome Extension page, look at the top right side, and you will find the toggle option of "Developer mode."Simply enable that developer mode option.

Step 5: Load the Unpacked Extension

Once you enable the developer mode option, you will see the menu of Load Unpacked, Pack Extensions and Update. From that, select the option "Load unpacked."

Step 6: Select the Extension Folder

Once the pop-up opens upon clicking Load unpacked, select the Effortless - Make Focus Your Default extension directory and click on the "Select Folder "button.

Step 7: Confirm and Install

After you select an extension folder of a Google Chrome extension you're installing manually, confirm its installation for the final time and let the installation complete.

Conclusion

Here we've made a step-by-step guide on How to manually install Effortless - Make Focus Your Default extension in 2 ways. We hope this guide proves helpful.

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User reviews

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Dave E (ID: 00000067dcd88bd5) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 07/26/2022 I LOVE THIS EXTENSION. I wish my phone also did this too. the only improvement I would suggest is creating options to log intentions to a spreadsheet and also enabling option to ask us "how focused were we on acting in such a way to pursue higher ground in our lives?" or something to that effect. (higher ground is a metaphor i use to represent all the valued good stuff in life) but ask that question and allow us to answer how well we did from 1-100. it becomes an additional tool that boosts focus as some times we need to reflect and be made aware that "yeah, i actually am not happy with how im acting at the moment and need to change." just a thought. otherwise, I do want to iterate that this extension is GREAT and I Highly recommend it.

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Parmjit Kaur (ID: 000000769347b824) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 06/06/2022 I have no words to thank you. THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH!!

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Mohamed Fourati (ID: 000000d95871733a) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/06/2021 You Are amaziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing. Thank you so much. I was always looking for something like this, But I couldn't Find anything close to my thoughts. Even this is not what I wanted, But I think too much better.