WTF are desktop apps and what am I missing out on.

I just d/l F.Lux and will give this a good try. When I am more disciplined about sleep habits, I try and be off the computer by no later than 8 pm for this reason.

My recommendations: These are browser extensions, not desktop apps, all are free and available on Firefox. The first one at least is also avail for Chrome.

I can't believe people don't use AdBlocker Plus (ABP). It always shocks me when I use a friend's computer, I literally look at different internet than everyone else, and I am very thankful for it.

More for people who are willing to put in a wee bit of work, but I also run NoScript. I hate opening news/sports pages and getting the videos popping up and running automatically. NoScript is more effort to set up, but to me it's worth it.

I also run Ghostery cuz I hate cookies/tracking, but this is probably just me.

How's F.lux working for you @CycleVancouver? Until 2015 I never had an ad blocker, I don't know what I could do now without it YouTube is finally bearly to use.

I also forgot to mention I use Window's Sticky Note. Perfect desktop app to remind yourself to do things, useful for me as I work online:

Speaking of useful browser extensions I also highly recommend Website Blocker/Stay Focused to help with procrastination. I usually block certain sites that can be valuable, but quickly turn into huge time-sinkers like (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter etc.) during my working hours so I can be more productive.

Other than that, instead of looking for different up for every task I usually use Evernote for my notes, writing, keeping track of workouts, budget, goals etc. While the tool is not perfect for any of those tasks it is good enough and I enjoy having everything in the same place.

@Harvie F.Lux is fine,hard to know if it is working or not but I'm sure it can't be a bad thing. Only catch is that I plug my laptop into my TV for evening streaming, and I have to disable the program every hour, at least until I figure out some way to make it only work on my computer monitor and not on the TV.

F.Lux is great for me and I also have adblocker+. i don't know how to move things from one screen to another though so I just have them both as an extended screen, which can be a bit annoying sometimes tbh.

@Pwll download something called Display Fusion, it lets you set a hot key to move the tab you're currently looking at to another screen. It just makes things much faster for me when I'm on the computer. It has a bunch of other features too for free.

@Harvie thank you very much, I'll give that a go.