Guides

Daily Dial’s job is to show you where the time went. It stops there on purpose — blocking, enforcing and nagging are other tools’ work, and they do it better than a time logger could.

These are the handoff. Nothing here is sponsored or affiliated; every tool is named as an example of an approach, and two of these guides recommend no software at all.

Make your phone boring — Assistive Access, Screen Time, greyscale and Digital Wellbeing, set up step by step.
Block sites during the hours you want to work — and why an all-day block gets switched off by lunchtime.
Automate SelfControl without letting it start on its own — the scripts, the traps, and why the schedule should fire a reminder rather than the block. Technical; macOS only.
Protect your best hour — finding it in your own data, then defending it.
Rest that actually happens — break timers, and the difference between rest you meant to take and rest you took.

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