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NewTabURL helps you stay on task with Merlin Mann's help

Is this really what you want to be doing right now?Love him or hate him, productivity blogger Merlin Mann has come up with a great way to help keep yourself on track. The idea is to avoid the seductions of the web by stopping a moment to make sure that you're spending your time on what you really want to be spending it on.

In his blog post on the subject, Merlin describes opening folders full of bookmarks all in one go, which have the potential to suck up huge amounts of time. He therefore created a page on his site that asks him "Is this what you want to be doing right now?", and included it as the first bookmark in each of his folders of bookmarks.

While this is a great idea, if you don't operate the same way, opening complete folders of bookmarks all at once, this probably won't help you much. But what if you could set your browser to open this page by default every time you opened a blank new tab or new browser window?

With the NewTabURL extension for Firefox, you can do exactly that. Slick, and helpful.
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