SiteCop for Chrome

We all know just how distracting it can be to work done while you're online, with unlimited access to Facebook or cat videos at the tips of our fingers. There are numerous ways to cut down on distractions and to prevent yourself from wasting time but, for some, the best solution might be blocking the access to those specific sources of devilish distractions.

Enter SiteCop, an interesting and useful Chrome extension that allows you to block or limit access to various websites. It can be deployed on your Chrome browser just like any other extension, with a simple click from its Chrome Web Store listing.

SiteCop smoothly integrates with Chrome's user interface, making its presence known via a small icon in the typical place for most extensions, on the left side of the address bar.

Click its icon and you are met by a compact and very functional UI that provides you with instant access to SiteCop's three timer/blocker features. On each one of these timer lists, you can add one or multiple URLs that you want to block. Start off by picking out the days in which you want to block the websites in question.

You can also choose the maximum number of minutes per day you are allowed to access the websites, and even create custom ranges (timetables) with the help of the very intuitive and visually pleasing sliders. There's also a Whitelist section that, as you can imagine, it allows you to add websites that will never be blocked, useful for allowing subsections of various websites, for example.

But that's not all SiteCop does for increasing your productivity. With the help of its built-in Pomodoro feature, you can also add tasks, assign various times for completion and choose the break time between them. To make sure that you won't get too captivated by your work, be sure to enable the "Bell" option, which comes with a very satisfying ringing sound, as you will find out.

SiteCop is a very efficient Chrome extension that has enough potential to help you increase your productivity by blocking distraction-riddled websites. Be that as it may, don't expect wonders from SiteCop since, at the end of the day, it still requires your willingness and a fair bit of self-discipline for sticking with the self-imposed timer limits.