Pick which apps to be blocked when I schedule opal to be running. E.g in the morning I’m scheduling to block social media and in the evening I’m scheduling to block slack, Gmail and outlook.
I’ve been playing around with scheduled blocking times and perhaps it could be handy to have the option to select which app categories I’d like to block - eg I still want to block social media use 24/7 and have to pause the shield to use the apps, but I don’t want to block news websites (which would be blocked during exam shields)…the more I try to articulate this the more I think I might just need to rethink the apps that I block, but hopefully you can follow my thinking.
Just to give you a specific example, since chatting in generalities is always tough! I would like to lock out social media by 11pm, but then I’d also like to be able to lock out my e-reader apps and chrome by 12pm, when I need to be winding down to sleep (notorious late night reader - flashlight, clip light, phone - occasionally manage to accidentally read until the sun comes up…) So having 2 schedules was what I tried, but I can’t customize which schedules work on which apps. Maybe there’s a way around this with the pause function?
I am surprised more people don’t want this feature! And very glad to see that it is being planned :) Sorry in advance if I am misunderstanding your responses Kenneth! (We may be saying the same thing, I don’t know much about making apps lol)
Right now, I can create many “schedules”, but there is only one “settings:distracting apps” page in the app. So every “schedule” blocks the same apps. But I want to block social media apps while I’m at work(9-5,weekdays), and I want to block work apps while I’m at home(morning,evening,weekends).
To me, the most intuitive way to do this would be for each “schedule” to have its own “settings:distracting apps” page where I can choose the categories and apps to block.