Xwatch

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Xwatch — Stay Mindful, Avoid doomscrolling - Chrome Web Store

Tracks your X usage as a native post. Groq AI gives insights on your scrolling, promoting mindfulness and well-being.

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What does this extension do?
It records your scrolling activity, posts visited and time spent in the background and inform you about your usage summary as you browse through your feed. It's a time tracker for X/Twitter specifically designed to make you aware of doom scrolling and stay mindful of your usage patterns.

What so different about this extension?
Most browser extensions have notifications hidden away in menus or repurpose existing features of X, making them either annoying or easy to ignore. Xwatch puts your usage info right where you look: in the feed/timeline as a native post. Gives you the prompt to analyze your usage pattern with Groq and get actual feedback by providing the posts visited and time spent.

What is this summary post?

It's a summary of your X/Twitter usage happened in a given day
It shows time spent, number of posts seen, average time per post and Book pages (if you had read a book, how many pages you could have covered, just a little perspective)
Analyze with Groq button - You click it and your usage summary is copied to clipboard. Then you just paste in on Groq , it crunches those into a beautiful insight and tells you whether you doom scroll or not. It doesn't stop there, it even recommends what you could do to make your browsing on X mindful and useful to you.

What this extension does not do?

It doesn't collect data nor track it.
All the activity happens in your browser locally.
No login required , so I don't even know who is using my extension.
Does not annoy you by randomly inserting the post while you are reading a thread
It does not stop you from using X/Twitter nor it shows any other notification.

Why to use this extension at all? One could simply stop using X/Twitter:
When you are able to stop using it then there is no need for this extension at all. One less extension for your browser. However, use it to analyze your usage patterns.

OK ! If you are still reading 😊 , then give it a try: