Read Your Sheet

A Chrome extension that soft-blocks distracting sites while your Reading List is growing faster than you read it.

It is deliberately not a hard blocker. When you hit a blocked site it shows a nag screen with your actual numbers, makes you sit for a few seconds, offers you something from your own Reading List instead — and then lets you through if you still want to go. The point is friction, not a lock. Sometimes you genuinely need YouTube at work.

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Free. Chrome 120 or newer, desktop.

What it looks like

The nag screen: 12 saved and 4 read over the last 7 days, saved YouTube links from the blocked site, and a Continue anyway button counting down Settings: the blocked sites list with per-site state, and the thresholds that decide when blocking starts The toolbar popup showing saved, read, net growth and unread counts

Scroll sideways for more. Click any shot to see it full size. Screenshots use example data.