don’t just minimise the browser when trying to work, close it.
There are a couple of other trivial inconveniences that can be installed on the path between you and the browser:
Remove the browser shortcut from the quick launch / taskbar and the desktop, so that every time you feel the urge to browse the interwebz, you have to actually navigate the Program Menu (or its equivalent in your OS).
If you use Firefox, turn off your bookmarks toolbar via the right-click menu, so that you have to actually type URLs.
Under Windows XP, I noticed that if I disabled my WLAN adapter while logged in as Administrator, I couldn’t re-enable it while logged in as Home. So I decided to generally work as Home with the adapter disabled, and when I needed to go online, temporarily plug in an external adapter (possibly limiting my online time using my laptop’s battery and/or my bladder). I should note that I’m not doing any of that now, though.
Occasionally I’ve driven to somewhere where I don’t have access to the Internet at all, and sometimes left my laptop home too, but I haven’t adopted that as a regular thing; for one thing, I need a separate motivation to get me in the car to begin with.
There are a couple of other trivial inconveniences that can be installed on the path between you and the browser:
Remove the browser shortcut from the quick launch / taskbar and the desktop, so that every time you feel the urge to browse the interwebz, you have to actually navigate the Program Menu (or its equivalent in your OS).
If you use Firefox, turn off your bookmarks toolbar via the right-click menu, so that you have to actually type URLs.
Under Windows XP, I noticed that if I disabled my WLAN adapter while logged in as Administrator, I couldn’t re-enable it while logged in as Home. So I decided to generally work as Home with the adapter disabled, and when I needed to go online, temporarily plug in an external adapter (possibly limiting my online time using my laptop’s battery and/or my bladder). I should note that I’m not doing any of that now, though.
Occasionally I’ve driven to somewhere where I don’t have access to the Internet at all, and sometimes left my laptop home too, but I haven’t adopted that as a regular thing; for one thing, I need a separate motivation to get me in the car to begin with.