If you’ve been thinking of cutting down the time you waste on addictive websites like YouTube, Facebook, then MinutesPlease is the answer.

This nifty and simple website lets you impose time limit for any website you want to open. After the set time limit, the open website window or tab will automatically close saving you from distracting away your precious time.

There are a lot of options to use this website,

1. You can directly type in URL into your browser’s address bar, e.g. say you need to open example.com for 5 minutes, then type in

5.minutesplease.com/example.com

or minutesplease.com/5m/example.com

or minutesplease.com/example.com (10 minutes limit)

2. Use the web form at MinutesPlease

3. Drag their bookmarklet onto your browser’s bookmarks bar and click on it when you need to set 10 minutes timer for opened website.

If you set time limit greater than a minute, then MinutesPlease will alert you with a pop up when 1 minute is left, but for it to work, you need to allow pop-ups from MinutesPlease.