SelfControl

selfcontrol

A free and open-source application for macOS that lets you block your own access to distracting websites.

Detected by org.eyebeam.SelfControl | macOS |selfcontrolapp.com

Sync it selfcontrol.toml

Sync rules

What travels, what stays, what never leaves

SelfControl in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

· ~/Library/Preferences/org.eyebeam.SelfControl.plist Sync

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

apps/selfcontrol.tomlThe file this page is generated from

id = "selfcontrol"

name = "SelfControl"

homepage = "https://selfcontrolapp.com/"

# The project's own README, "About", trimmed to one sentence.

description = "A free and open-source application for macOS that lets you block your own access to distracting websites."

# The app icon at the largest size selfcontrolapp.com publishes.

icon = "https://selfcontrolapp.com/img/apple-touch-icon-144-precomposed.png"

# SelfControl ships no command-line tool, so `detect` carries the bundle

# identifier. It is the one the project uses for itself: the repository holds

# org.eyebeam.SelfControl.plist, its daemon is Daemon/org.eyebeam.selfcontrold.plist,

# and the Homebrew cask zaps ~/Library/Preferences/org.eyebeam.SelfControl.plist

# (Casks/s/selfcontrol.rb).

detect = ["org.eyebeam.SelfControl"]

platforms = ["macos"]

# The blocklist and the block settings are ordinary user defaults. SCConstants.m

# registers them under `defaultUserDefaults` — "Blocklist" (the list of hosts),

# "BlockAsWhitelist", "EvaluateCommonSubdomains", "IncludeLinkedDomains" and the

# rest — and PreferencesGeneralViewController reads them back through

# NSUserDefaults, so they land in the app's preferences domain. The Homebrew

# cask names the same file in its zap stanza. [preferences] is

# ~/Library/Preferences, and this entry is macOS-only, so there is no other

# platform for that root to stand for.

# Common/SCSettings.m is deliberately not listed: the "secured settings" it

# writes are the running block's state, kept in SETTINGS_FILE_DIR under a

# root-owned file whose name is a SHA-1 of the machine's serial number, outside

# the user's home entirely.

paths = ["[preferences]/org.eyebeam.SelfControl.plist"]

exclude = []

# No credential: SelfControl is free software and the domain holds a list of

# hostnames the user chose to block, plus durations and UI settings.

secret = []

# No machine_lines: the blocklist and the block duration are the whole reason

# to carry the domain. A macOS property list has no matcher in this schema in

# any case — `format` covers toml, yaml and json only — so a plist entry is

# paths and nothing else.

Use it with your dotfile manager

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/selfcontrol. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

Every one of these is generated from the same rules as this page.