Screenshots and The Timer Padlock; a Powerful Combination Against Internet Overuse.

My brother is a good musician and his teacher would say that if you learn how to play an instrument wrong you have to spend that much time unlearning it "twice as much".. This is why the timer padlock or timers alone doesn't solve the issue of computer overuse.. Like a person who drinks who says they don't want to take the prescriptions that actually counteract it like 75% because they think they want to drink and it's the only friend they've ever had.

Using screenshots may be a way to not take a shot of whiskey each time you're staggering online!

Timers or timer apps don't solve the problem..in China they tried them for gambling apps and they did more, not for 8 hours, with the timers they increased to 10 hours.

The idea here is that timing out for like a day or two a week or whatever or half the day (you want to time out more than enough to be able to resist it) using the timer padlock can be much boosted by the following method... (You can buy timer padlocks for ten dollars on Amazon and tie them to the zipper of your box.)

When you're online what you can do is look at the sites you visit that aren't doing you much good.. this could include gambling apps (2/3 of video Gamblers are addicted). You take a screenshot of whatever it is you want to reduce the wasteful computing about, this can be whatever you do online or offline so it's all purpose..And it's also simple to take a screenshot, all you have to do in Android is press the power button on the side of your phone along with the volume down button at the same time. This takes the screenshot or image of your web page or any other page like on an app.

Now you have evidence of the site and what you can do is time out with the timer padlock and then go to that image in your photo editor and write down what it is you want to detour about it and why by clicking on the edit, This is a picture of a small pencil of the list of the menu on the bottom of your photo editor usually. There to the bottom right is a picture of a smile icon with another pencil click on this and then go to text or you can click to the lower left and there will be a picture of a pencil for drawing.

(Not only can you crop as usual with photo editing but here when you click the word  "text" This will enable you to add text on top of the image of that site you want to limit perhaps. You want your words near the center of the image to see it once changed on the list. My Android had the list words too small to often see without color.  Make your comment words the right size by the scale on the left to fit your words between the image words like using small letters, this overwrites the words by writing between the lines, and if you want to see your own words in the list you can use a semitransparent block around your words by clicking a few clicks in the photo editor. You can also move your word blocks near the center of your image so it shows on the list. Sometimes you may just want to circle words on the image or draw a line or a nice color line and arrow from your words to the image words, once you've clicked edit, click the color pencil marker nearer the left..Zoom up if you like for a cool line around this. This may sound complex, but keep in mind you're editing your image by clicking on edit) and then typing in the words (and letters if you like) and then saving. Practice will allow the rest!

 Here's where the celebration is because what you can do is first of all write do not go to this site and why.. But you can add comedy or your good side of whatever it is that you're trying to change. Everything has a bad good side, just try to find your good side of it. One good place to find your good side of stuff like this is a thesaurus..it's another word for a word Darn darn double darnette! Darn good because you can find antonyms which will help you find the opposite of your bad side of it.

  If you don't have an idea about where to go from there consider puns as I say on my site How I built my own Comedy Machine and Saved CLICK HERE or see the same link below if you like! On this site I'll show you how for example you can make pun lists by a simple alphanumeric method 1 to 99..

  The idea is you use those words in your label of your Screenshot to make blocking words like jokes you can learn while you're offline with the timer padlock in order to hopefully reverse the damage done by learning that you think you want to use your computer too much.

Words as they say are the strongest prescriptions like if you go to the store to buy some alphabet soup and they said they were out of print no more!

The value here is really that you have the edge over the internet by timing out your mouse or modem power plug with the timer padlock.. (If you have a wireless connection you can time out your phone in another duffel and use other phones with apps you might like that don't have the internet connection. Using most apps offline is generally not as stressful, They're more simple and non-random than the web.)

This at least will get you in the general area and it's profoundly different general area.. Your brain needs time to consolidate memories you don't otherwise find with a constant event.

Once you're offline you have time to then look at screenshots you saved for when you're online.. One great thing about this method is you can still go on computing (at a slow rate and you really do want to slow down your rate of activity) while you're offline because what you're doing is looking at screenshots of different types where you've done the search.. This simplifies it dramatically.. you can even crop it to where you have only the words of what you're Reducing it down to for like with AI with the image you saved. The beauty of using these images is that it's a simple question and an answer with the rest built in, you add in your next move instead of just sort of putting it somewhere in your memory that you can never even find with at all the noise of the internet.

This is important because like a dog needs to bark for good health you need to go on computing increasing your value while at the same time also gradually reducing your overuse.. In a way this is sort of a memory trick because you have all these apps you would try and for some reason or other you can't use half of them. If you take a screenshot of that app and it shows you you cannot use this app sign, if you list that in your screenshots and your own words about why it's not valuable and what to do, with the next loop around if you try it again you're at least not going over and over doing the same loop and frustration. 

 As you look through the screenshots you're basically doing computing but it's not with the unlimited expansion every time you type in another search like on the web when you're online.. Instead you have more relaxing questions and answers...with rest.. So what I like to do is read through my screenshots when I'm offline for a couple of days while I'm not living in a prehistoric shack at high speed, the beauty of this is instead of saying "Hey I'm going to do all this to stop overuse" you simply have your image among all the other images with the counteracting words built in. You can go over and over while you're offline and not feel so stressed by it but by being reminded about that site by looking at the image so you're more familiar with what you want to learn.

So what you can do Is take screenshots of the sites that you don't want to visit so much and also screenshots that you just like to learn what you like to learn. From here you take your screenshot of the "bad" site and put cautionary words on it with the photo editor, what to do, finding your good side of it and like puns from pun lists, you make this into a joke if you can't think of a joke just go online and ask AI to help you find them, making sure to ask AI to find your good side of it.. No halluukinations!

Now as you're browsing among your images you find this one, Hey! there's something to learn about let's stop this elephant in the room of overusing!

And you look at your detour words and your good side with the joke and the puns and then finally what I like to do is write the first letter of each word (acronym) near the words on the Image. This has value because you can go back and forth between the words and the letters and you are strengthening your memory by exercising by doing this stressing and relax in your brain.. "Your progress is much more valuable if you can remember it"

Finally what you can do is also make an audio recording with your voice recorder about the words the joke and the letters.. You can write abbreviations for the words and then the same letters for some of the words and make an exercise and then what you can do as you're listening to your audios your other audios like music you can stop and look at those label words and go over them as they loop through in loops, reinforcing your verbal memory for a more powerful defense.

This is also great for avoiding shams like about how almost 50% of the reviews on Amazon are bogus, or how 50% of OTC herbs are counterfeit. So essentially you're shortening a lot of these loops by increasing your memory by this method.

Like about 50% you may recieve pfishy lines. Don't click that link..

If you ask Google they say you can't click your way out and then offer you the "opportunity to learn more" which often isn't a thrill as much.

So you might think of a workaround..sign up with more apps that send you more messages to always remove the pfish so it's lower down. And then look up on the pun lists "more apps add more messages" might be No Booze Like Amnesia! You've added your defense, your best move and a way to remember it.

And then add the letters to memorize like with audio, a way to convert what would have been more negative to a net positive more in your favor. And you can repeat the method..

 If you've learned a habit this much you can't let go of it fast.. instead you have to slam dunk with the timer padlock in the duffel. And then you might finish improving with screenshots offline where you can look at the site you may have been doing too much or gambling and then putting the sort of blocking detour with the words that are more in your favor on that screenshot.

These images can be used to make constant progress in many ways, for example for weight loss you can go to weight control sites..

do a rolling screenshot (in Android press volume down plus power, then hold down the arrow button on lower left) for the image then you can return offline to take screenshots of the main image you got online and then make reminder notes in your images to not overeat etc. You don't just forget it by memory overuse amnesia..

Or you can use it for finance, cheer, or any other use, as much use as the net, what there is of it!

A Note About Listening and Reading the Web.

How do you find all these fabulous words from your loop of your audio and remember to stop and look at the words on the list instead of going through them all the time?

While I'm offline I like to listen to a song or two and then stop and think about what I'm listening to. This is kind of like interval training for exercise when you exercise like running and then you slow down when you're tired and wait till you're cleansed out and then speed up again slow down speed up and then you quit when you're tired either way, So too even about music the truth abounds in silence.. Information including jokes for music or reading the screenshots is like food not so much about what you eat but more about how well you digest it..

So high intensity interval training like this Is perhaps four times as efficient..Science shows that when you're walking when you slow down to stop and smell the roses or whatever they've planted in your RV!..this much improves like your neural health for building neurons and other health while you're walking, but I believe listening to what your body is saying about slowing down when you're too tired and then speeding back up when you're cleansed out may be far more valuable for all kinds of exercise, not just high speed.. This includes music and computing in general. This is a way to savor your favorite songs. lnstead of listening so much you have burnout you aren't as tired of your tunes as soon.

So when you're listening to your audios and you have your jokes there or other things you may want to memorize since you're in the habit of listening to your song and then resting and thinking about your song for better value, you also have the value of listening to your counteracting words about those websites you don't want to visit while you're in the process of learning about music or whatever it is you're currently struggling with, as most have.

More particularly as you stop you can look at those words in the words for letters and go back and forth between them at that point you're getting that much smarter about learning what you want to unlearn, and what you want to learn. 

 Food overuse can be a problem because it's been found that feeling good replaces frownies in your brain with grins. So it's a bit of self-based behavioral cognition so much of it is, and this is one of the reasons why learning how to do jokes well can be really an advantage to have because not only do employers favor employees like a third more who laugh a lot but also vice versa. Comedy is what you can replace bad habits with.. Relationships are often more probable to survive if at least one of the members has a sense of cheer while they make a recording while listening to the laugh track laughing..

Celebration tends to be all purpose. Even so the world is run by serious people. So while you may not be interested in using jokes to remove your internet overuse by these methods, I would say for those who overuse at least using the timer padlock and screenshot method with words in the photo editor that are your good side and perhaps also the audio loop may be an option of most worth.

Here's my link as promised to my post How I Built my Own Comedy Machine, and Saved! This is a more technical page but like math you learn by doing math, so too just watching comedy and learning as you go is the way I often lived. This Comedy Machine link is a summation of 5 of 30 of the most powerful tricks I found and a more systematic way to learn, even so as the ancients would say "we learn not for diplomas but for life."