Put what's most important to you on your new tab page
I'm super excited about this announcement: Complice has a chrome extension. It's pretty simple, but that's kind of the point. It has basically one feature:
Your new tab page gets replaced with your next action from Complice and a giant done button.
If you're already sold, just click the image below to install the chrome extension. If not, keep reading.
Complice is all about doing what's most important, which has a number of pieces to it. One of those pieces is figuring out what's most important. But once you've figured it out, you still need to manage to stay focused on that important thing for long enough to do it. And we live in an era of ever increased distraction, yadda yadda. I'm sure you've read some article ranting about that, so I'm not going to bother.
I'm here to say: I have a solution. Effectiveness is composed of a bunch of tiny decisions, and one decision that you probably make hundreds of times daily is to open a new browser tab. Then what decision do you make right after that? Often, by impulse, it'll be facebook, or reddit, or your email inbox even though you dealt with everything important 10 minutes ago.
What this extension does is interrupt that impulse by reminding you that you have something important you want to be doing. You might say "so it's going to constantly guilt-trip me?" The feeling of guilt comes from a disconnection between the action and the purpose, where you're supposed to just do the thing or be a "bad person". That's why the only other thing the page has beyond "action" and "done button" is the name of the goal that the action is towards. To keep the action connected with the purpose.
Click to check it out.
