{"id":122,"date":"2014-04-26T16:33:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T15:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conorburgess.com\/wordpress\/?p=122"},"modified":"2014-04-26T18:11:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T17:11:24","slug":"productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conorburgess.com\/wordpress\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to find myself aimlessly opening a new tab, clicking on facebook or twitter, and getting distracted by some article or other. No more! Now when I open a new tab; a big red image catches my eye and reminds me to do some work:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/conorburgess.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-26-at-16.01.40.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/conorburgess.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-26-at-16.01.40-1024x640.png\" alt=\"Productivity\" width=\"604\" height=\"377\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conorburgess.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-26-at-16.01.40-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/conorburgess.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-26-at-16.01.40-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/conorburgess.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-26-at-16.01.40.png 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This seems to be pretty effective, so to allow others to do the same or similar, I wrote some quick instructions:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Firefox<\/strong><br \/>\n1) In the URL bar, type <code>about:config<\/code><br \/>\n2) Agree to be careful<br \/>\n3) Search for &#8220;browser.newtab.url&#8221;<br \/>\n4) Double click the value and replace with &#8220;http:\/\/conorburgess.com\/revision.png&#8221; or whatever image you want<br \/>\n5) Enjoy productivity<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chrome<\/strong><br \/>\n1) Install the <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/new-tab-redirect\/icpgjfneehieebagbmdbhnlpiopdcmna\" title=\"New Tab Redirect\" target=\"_blank\">New Tab Redirect plugin<\/a><br \/>\n2) In the URL bar, type <code>chrome:\/\/extensions<\/code><br \/>\n3) Select Options for New Tab Redirect<br \/>\n4) Change the Redirect URL to &#8220;http:\/\/conorburgess.com\/revision.png&#8221; or whatever image you want<br \/>\n5) Enjoy productivity<\/p>\n<p><strong>Safari<\/strong><br \/>\n1) Open Safari Preferences (Safari->Preferences on Mac, Edit->Preferences on Windows)<br \/>\n2) Go to the General Tab<br \/>\n3) Change &#8216;New Tab Opens With&#8217; to Homepage<br \/>\n4) Set homepage to &#8220;http:\/\/conorburgess.com\/revision.png&#8221; or whatever image you want<br \/>\n5) Enjoy productivity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to find myself aimlessly opening a new tab, clicking on facebook or twitter, and getting distracted by some article or other. No more! Now when I open a new tab; a big red image catches my eye and reminds me to do some work: This seems to be pretty effective, so to allow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/conorburgess.com\/wordpress\/?p=122\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Productivity<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4zPbt-1Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conorburgess.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conorburgess.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conorburgess.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conorburgess.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conorburgess.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/conorburgess.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/conorburgess.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conorburgess.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conorburgess.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conorburgess.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}