Day 109: Intention Feature Requests

(Started this yesterday, finished it today.)

After launching Intention on Hacker News two days ago, I received a ton of feature requests from the thread, from emails, and from the Send Feedback form inside Intention’s settings.

Today’s post is going to be dedicated to simply listing them all:

Add option to save current page for later
Show how many times the unlock period was extended
Blur the background behind the lock
Make it harder to unlock (e.g. require PIN to unlock, randomly rearrange unlock buttons, require solving math problem)
Count time spent on links from distracting sites (2)
Add focus mode
Syncing between devices
Automatically add a list of news sites (e.g. cnn.com)
Add ability to import/export data
Allow using site productively without counting towards timer
Add time delay so pages load more slowly when they open
Block only the homepage of a website
Add dark mode
Add ability to set multiple schedules
Add option to disable all requests to Google (e.g. fetching favicons)
Display number of times Intention successfully intervened
Add more granular scheduling (e.g. whitelist lunch hour)
Add option to watch a single video
Add cooldown after unlocking multiple times
Keep interface size constant even when page is zoomed in
Show distracting sites in “extension shortcut screen”
Show time spent in extension icon popup
Use 24h format in schedule
Add ability to mark all sites as distracting and create a whitelist
Auto-suggest new limits based on usage
Allow creating groups of sites, each with their own limit
Ability to set the time when the day rolls over
Remove permissions when a domain is removed from distracting sites list
Show how much time (by %) was spent productively
Limit by number of YouTube videos watched instead of time spent

Some other requests that aren’t feature-related:

Man. And this doesn’t even include any of the bug reports!