Reviews for Serene: Website Blocker & Productivity Timer
Serene: Website Blocker & Productivity Timer by SereneApp.com
Review by Jason D
Rated 1 out of 5
by Jason D, 2 years agoNot great!
Instead of using an icon on the toolbar and having a settings menu that contains all the settings --- like normal extensions for Firefox for the past decade or so ---this app takes over your New Browser Tab -- which is where you actually control the rest of the settings.
I'm not comfortable having an extension that:
- Needs to have it's own tab to work.
- Takes over my new tab, where I keep important bookmarks.
- Does not have a toolbar icon. This seems suspect to me, why would you want me to forget that this extension is on my machine?
- Splits settings into two wildly different interfaces.
I can't use an extension with such poor UX.
Instead of using an icon on the toolbar and having a settings menu that contains all the settings --- like normal extensions for Firefox for the past decade or so ---this app takes over your New Browser Tab -- which is where you actually control the rest of the settings.
I'm not comfortable having an extension that:
- Needs to have it's own tab to work.
- Takes over my new tab, where I keep important bookmarks.
- Does not have a toolbar icon. This seems suspect to me, why would you want me to forget that this extension is on my machine?
- Splits settings into two wildly different interfaces.
I can't use an extension with such poor UX.
4 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by stoneinl0ve, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by raspberries_and_tea, 4 years agoWhen I open a new tab to go to an easy-to-be-distracted website, I see the Serene home tab layout which gently reminds me to get back to focus, especially if I am in a focus session when I wouldn't be able to use the easy-to-be-distracted website anyway. This extension is awesome.
- Rated 4 out of 5by silenced, 5 years ago