runs on-device · nothing leaves the tab
ScreenYourScreen reads the page you're on with your browser's built-in model and asks one question: does this serve what you said you were doing? Domains don't matter. Intent does.
How it works
A blocklist sees youtube.com and stops. ScreenYourScreen sees the page — the title, the headline, what's actually on it — and holds it up against the one sentence you wrote about what you're doing today.
You've already decided
You told it how you feel about this site once. That answer stands, and nothing else runs.
instant
It's seen this page
Same page you had open ten minutes ago. Same answer.
instant
It knows the site
Some sites don't need thinking about. Your bank isn't a distraction; a slot machine isn't work.
It reads the page
Everything else gets read properly and judged on what it says. This is the slow part, and it's rare.
Reading a page takes about half a second and a sliver of battery — a heavy day of browsing works out to roughly two percent of a charge. It happens inside Chrome, on your machine, using the model your browser already ships with.
What it notices
Reading something fascinating that has nothing to do with your work isn't laziness — it's curiosity, and it costs you the afternoon anyway. So does a good day chopped into twelve-minute pieces. Different problems, so they never get blended into one number.
Relevance
Does this page serve what you said you'd do today?
read from the page itself
Focus
Are you settled in, or bouncing?
how long you stay · how often you come back
Coherence coming
Does today hang together as one piece of work?
how close each page sits to the rest
When you drift
Between 7am and 7pm, a page that's clearly not yours goes blurry and the scrolling stops. You can close the tab. Or you can pay for it.
Earn
+1 credit
for every half hour of real work. Time spent away from the keyboard doesn't count. Credits keep stacking up.
Spend
5 minutes
one credit buys you five minutes on one site. The toolbar icon fills up while you earn and counts down while you spend.
Or argue
Justify
make your case to a skeptical gatekeeper. Something specific and plausible earns a few minutes. "This is work" doesn't.
After hours it goes soft: the page still stops you, but continuing is free and buys you half an hour. Focus mode can be switched on. It can't be switched off in the moment you most want to.
Privacy
Everything sent off your computer · all time
nothing to show
0 requests · 0 bytes · no account, ever
There's no sign-up, no sync and no server, because the extension doesn't talk to anything. The reading happens inside your browser. What it learns about your day stays on your machine, and uninstalling takes it with you. It's a small pile of plain files with nothing bolted on, if you'd rather check than take our word for it.
Install
It isn't in the Chrome Web Store yet, so you add it by hand.
Download the folder and put it somewhere you won't delete it.
In Chrome, open the Extensions page and switch on Developer mode.
Click Load unpacked and choose that folder.
Write one sentence about what you're working on. That's the whole setup.
Needs Chrome 138 or newer to read pages on your own machine. On older versions it still runs, just more bluntly — it goes on what it knows about a site rather than what's on the page, and it tells you so.
Changelog
1.0.0
The first release
coming
What's next