MindCap - AI Focus & Site Blocker

Tracking since Apr 1, 2026.

Changelog

• Apr 17, 2026
  description

  MindCap is a smart, privacy-first distraction blocker designed for power users. Instead of relying on rigid, outdated blacklists, MindCap uses Artificial Intelligence to instantly read the title, URL, and meta-description of your active tabs. It categorizes them in real-time to keep you aligned with your daily goals.
  
  Because your browsing history is highly sensitive, MindCap is built entirely around your privacy. It operates locally on your machine or directly via your own API keys. We run zero backend tracking servers, meaning your browsing data never touches our hands.
  
  KEY FEATURES:
  
  Dynamic AI Categorization: Sites are automatically sorted into predefined or custom categories like Work, Entertainment, Learning, or Social Media.
  
  Deep Focus Mode: State your current intent (e.g., "Researching React architectures"). MindCap will strictly evaluate every page you visit against this specific goal and ruthlessly block anything unrelated.
  
  Custom Time Quotas: Set granular daily limits for specific categories (e.g., 30 minutes of Social Media, 1 hour of Entertainment), with different rules for weekdays and weekends.
  
  Local Processing (LM Studio): Connect MindCap to your local LM Studio instance. Your browsing data never leaves your computer, ensuring 100% privacy and zero subscription fees.
  
  Bring Your Own Key (BYOK): Prefer cloud AI? Securely paste your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google API key to handle the categorization.
  
  Power-User Analytics: Track your LLM API calls, token usage, average response times, and daily browsing habits directly in the sleek, dark-mode dashboard.
  
  REQUIREMENTS:
  
  MindCap is a bring-your-own-compute tool. To use this extension, you must either:
  
  Have LM Studio running locally on your machine (default port 1234) with a text model loaded.
  
  Provide your own valid API key from a supported cloud AI provider in the extension settings.
  
  Take back control of your attention without sacrificing your privacy.

  MindCap is a local-first AI website blocker built for deep work.
  
  Instead of rigid blacklists, MindCap classifies your active tab in real time from minimal context only: URL, page title, and meta description. It then applies your own focus rules instantly.
  
  What you can do:
  - Set daily time limits by category (Work, Social Media, Entertainment, Learning, and more)
  - Create different rules for weekdays and weekends
  - Use Deep Focus mode: define one goal and block pages that are not relevant
  - Create custom categories and fix misclassifications from the block screen
  - Track your habits with dashboards (time spent, blocks, model and token stats)
  
  AI modes:
  - Local LM Studio (default, runs on your machine)
  - Bring Your Own Key (OpenAI-compatible endpoints, including custom endpoints)
  - Hosted AI for Pro users (optional)
  
  Privacy by design:
  - Core blocking works locally with no account required
  - MindCap does not read full page body content, passwords, form inputs, or keystrokes
  - Optional cloud features (Google sign-in, Pro sync, hosted AI) are only used when enabled
  - Provider API keys are stored locally in the extension
  
  Requirements:
  Use one of these modes:
  - Run LM Studio locally with a loaded model
  - Configure your own API key/provider endpoint
  - Use Hosted AI with a Pro subscription
  
  Take back control of your attention with strict, customizable, privacy-aware focus blocking.

• Apr 17, 2026
  short_description

  A privacy-first, locally-hosted distraction blocker powered by a local LLM.

  Local-first AI blocker with Deep Focus, custom limits, and optional Pro sync and hosted AI.

• Apr 17, 2026
  permissions

  tabs, storage, idle

  tabs, storage, idle, identity, alarms

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tabsstorageidleidentityalarms

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