Website and App Blockers

When willpower is the scarce resource at the end of the day, hand the job to software. Freedom blocks the sites and apps you choose across your phone, tablet and computer at once, can run on a recurring schedule so your study block starts itself, and has a Locked mode that stops you quitting a session early. Forest takes a gentler approach on the phone: a tree grows while you stay focused and dies if you leave for another app, which is oddly persuasive at 9 p.m. Both have free versions. Block only the specific sites that eat your evenings rather than the whole internet, or you will spend the session hunting for workarounds to reach the research pages you actually need.