This is maybe a weird request, but I’m looking for a way to send myself some information at a specific time in the future. Basically, it’s because I’ve got a few sites that are huge distractions for me at the moment, and I can’t stop checking my accounts, responding to messages, etc. My willpower is so low, and I’ve got a lot of important work right now and it’s starting to really mess up my life.

So my plan is to change the passwords to my accounts to a long random string, then save that string somewhere that I can’t access for X days. I imagined a simple way would be to use a site that would send me an email on a date, and the content of that email would be my random passwords. But my web searches only seem to find pages telling me how to schedule my own emails, which isn’t what I need.

Any advice / suggestions?

(also, in case anyone is thinking it, the sites I’m trying to block access to are all linked to the same email account, and I’m also going to change its password, so I won’t easily be able to reset them).

Edit: FutureMe is exactly the site I was thinking of, thanks lemmings!

  • goatmeal@midwest.social
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    8 months ago

    I probably wouldn’t trust any free reminder site with all my most important passwords

    Do you have a friend or parent who can schedule an email from their account? If you don’t trust them with your passwords you could also just encrypt the whole thing first. I did something similar to this with screen limit settings while my girlfriend had the password, and it made me never want to access them badly enough to ask her.

    One other thing that’s worked well for me - a kitchen safe timer. I lock up my phone in one at work and get so much more done. You could also theoretically lock your passwords in there too (from minutes to 10 days)

    Anyway, congrats on procrastinating by exploring ways on not procrastinating

    • Acamon@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      8 months ago

      It’s actually one of the things I like about lemmy. I don’t feel like I get hooked in the same way as other sites, because there’s less of an infinite scroll. So getting some advice and entertainment, but not losing 12 hours a day!

      And I think getting my partner to have some of my passwords might be a good idea. But it doesn’t work for me if it’s screen time locks and stuff like that. Last time I tried that (locking with a long unmemorable password and leaving it at home) I just factory reset my device to get it back working…

      The timer safe sounds like it would work! Thanks!