Keeps your distracting sites blocked until you have really studied today's goal in Anki. Window, camera and card anti-cheat.
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About Block Sites Until I Complete ANKI
Stop procrastinating. Study first.
Block Sites Until I Complete ANKI locks the websites you choose (YouTube, Reddit,
Twitter, Instagram — you name it) and only unlocks them after you have actually
studied your daily Anki goal. No shortcuts, no cheating.
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🔒 HOW IT WORKS
1. Add the sites that distract you, or switch to allow-list mode and block everything
except what you need.
2. Set today's goal — the minutes you want to spend reviewing Anki cards, plus any of
the optional extra goals below.
3. Open your Anki desktop app and study. A live timer counts only the seconds you are
really reviewing.
4. Hit your goal and your sites unlock automatically, until the next daily reset.
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🛡️ ANTI-CHEAT — IT ONLY COUNTS WHEN IT REALLY COUNTS
▸ Window check
Chrome cannot see your desktop, so Anki reports for itself. The small AnkiGate Bridge
add-on that ships inside this extension tells it whether Anki is genuinely the window
in front of you and filling the screen. Alt-tab to a video and the clock stops that
instant.
▸ Card check
Through AnkiConnect, the extension knows how many cards you have answered and when.
Leaving Anki open and doing nothing will not fool it — there is an idle timeout, a cap
on how long any single card can be worth, and an option to ignore answers that arrive
faster than a real answer takes.
▸ Camera check (optional, off by default)
Switch it on and the timer only runs while your face is visible. You can add eyes
open and on the screen, regular blinking, and a movement check that catches a
photograph propped in front of the lens. Everything is analysed on your own machine.
Your video is never recorded, never uploaded, and never written to disk.
▸ Deck and video checks
Limit which decks count, so an hour of Anki cannot all be the easy deck. And if a card
carries a video, the clock can be set to run only while that video is actually
playing — it even pauses the video for you when the clock stops, and picks it back up
where you left off.
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🎯 MORE THAN A TIMER — FIVE KINDS OF GOAL
Mix and match. Every one of these is optional except the time itself, and your sites
stay locked until all of them are satisfied.
• Time — minutes of real reviewing.
• Cards — a number of cards, optionally counting each card only once, so one card
answered Again forty times counts as one.
• Clear today's due — measured from Anki's own deck list, so your daily limits are
respected. Point it at one specific deck if you like.
• Get this much right — a minimum share of today's review answers correct.
• Per-deck time — an hour of Anki, but at least twenty minutes in Biology.
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🪟 THE FLOATING WINDOW
A small always-on-top window sits over Anki showing your clock, and your face if you
have the camera on. It opens by itself the moment Anki comes to the front, and you can
drag it anywhere, resize it, and add more time to today's goal from it. Chrome throttles
background tabs; this window keeps everything running at full speed.
Anki's own window can also glow at the edge — green while your time is counting, red
while something has stopped it — so you never have to leave Anki to check.
Note: holding the window above other applications is Windows only. On macOS and Linux
it still works as an ordinary small window, so keep Anki un-maximised beside it.
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⚙️ FEATURES
• Blacklist mode — block specific sites. Whitelist mode — block everything except what
you allow. Both understand paths and subdomains.
• Daily reset at a time you choose.
• Password protection — lock your settings so you cannot change them in a moment of
weakness. Auto-lock re-locks them after you close the page.
• Strict mode — freeze your settings on a daily schedule, or commit to a deadline
weeks away that nothing can loosen until it expires.
• Backup and restore your settings to a file.
• Points, levels and a daily streak.
• Dark mode and light mode.
• A progress bar that shifts from red to green as you close in on your goal, and a
motivational quote on the blocked page.
• Works entirely offline — no accounts, no servers, no sign-ups.
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📋 SETUP — THREE STEPS
1. Anki desktop app: https://apps.ankiweb.net
2. AnkiConnect, inside Anki. Tools → Add-ons → Get Add-ons, paste code 2055492159,
restart Anki. Then open Tools → Add-ons → AnkiConnect → Config and make sure
webCorsOriginList contains "*", and restart Anki again. Without that step
AnkiConnect refuses this extension and you will see "cannot reach Anki".
3. AnkiGate Bridge, which ships inside this extension. Open Settings → Study & Unlock
→ 🖥️ Anki window and press ⬇ Add-on, then install the saved file in Anki with
Tools → Add-ons → Install Add-on from File, and restart Anki.
This is the one that lets the extension see whether Anki is really in front of you,
draws the glow on Anki's window, powers the due, retention and count-each-card-once
goals and the video check, and holds the floating window on top. The time goal works
without it; everything above needs it.
Everything runs on your own machine at 127.0.0.1. Nothing is fetched from a server.
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🔐 PRIVACY
• No data leaves your computer. Ever.
• No accounts, no analytics, no tracking, no telemetry, no ads.
• The camera is off until you turn it on, and frames are checked for a face and
discarded immediately. Nothing is recorded or saved.
• The only network connections are to 127.0.0.1 — your own Anki app, on your own
machine.
• The blocked page shows the blocked site's icon from your browser's own cache. It
does not contact that site, and it does not contact any icon service.
Full policy: (your privacy policy URL)
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If you have ever told yourself "just five more minutes" and lost an hour, this
extension is for you. Study first. Scroll later.
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