PausePaw 学生党指南
两分钟装好，按 90 分钟一轮复习。给备考十天的 PausePaw 学生党设置与日程安排。
多数学习建议默认你缺自制力，但我听到的学生缺的是相反的东西：自制力够多，只是花在了错的时间。上午十点认真两小时，之后四小时半读不读，旁边开着一个信息流标签页。给学生用的 PausePaw 不负责增加意志力，它只负责给那个吃掉下午的标签页划一条线。
会搜 pausepaw for studying 的人，通常十天里有场考试，浏览器还一直在递替代品。这篇给一套两分钟能装好的设置，再给一份符合注意力真实规律的一天安排。
两分钟设置
- 点名四个吃掉你下午的站点。四个，不是二十个。清单太长就会变成一张你天天跟它讨价还价的清单，而且每次你都赢。
- 把规则绑在你的复习时段，不只是钟点。如果你固定在十点到十二点复习，那个时段就是规则。
- 故意留一个标签页不拦。全面封锁只会训练你绕过去。留一个例外，规则才站得住。
- 暂停选能打断你的最短时长。三十秒通常够你意识到自己已经飘了。
然后别再调设置了。调设置不是学习，但它非常擅长假装自己是。
为什么是 90 分钟
注意力大致按 90 分钟一轮跑，上午那轮长一些，午饭后那轮短一些。在一轮里干活，然后休息得彻底一点：走一走、吃点东西、看看窗外。滑动不算休息，因为它让同一个循环继续转着。
多数人一天两轮加半轮就到顶了。硬排四轮的人会发现，第四轮过去五十分钟还在读同一段。
备考期的一天
| 时间 | 做什么 | PausePaw 设置 |
|---|---|---|
| 09:50 | 把第一轮唯一的任务写在纸上 | 规则已生效 |
| 10:00-11:30 | 第一轮 90 分钟 | 站点拦截，触发即暂停 |
| 11:30-12:15 | 真休息，离开书桌 | 规则关闭 |
| 12:15-13:45 | 第二轮，通常是最弱的一段 | 规则开启 |
| 15:00-16:30 | 需要的话加第三轮 | 规则开启 |
暂停弹出的时候该做什么
暂停就是三十秒什么也干不了，怎么用这三十秒决定这条规则有没有用。看一眼你最后写的那句话：读得通就继续；读不通，说明你十分钟前就停止阅读了，隔壁那个标签页早在你脑子里打开了。
- 留一行写下进度。八秒钟的事，能让休息之后重新进入便宜很多。
- 暂停期间什么都别查。「查一下」正是暂停要打断的那个动作。
- 十分钟触发三次，就结束这一轮。这是关于这一轮的信息，不是对你下的判断。
常见问题
- 一起自习能用吗？规则是按浏览器算的，所以各装各的。真要凑一起，统一开始时间比统一设置更管用。
- 图书馆的电脑呢？也装上。规则跑在本地，触发暂停不需要连服务器。
- 会不会拦掉我真要查的资料？按站点点名，不按类别。吃掉下午的那四个标签页被拦下，浏览器其余部分照常能用。
- 免费档撑得过一学期吗？撑得过。基本规则和提醒都有，这篇用到的东西都在里面。
两分钟设置，午前先跑一轮诚实的复习。PausePaw 在 pause-paw.shop，从首页开始，到应用里写第一条规则；想知道一天怎么围着这几轮排，读深度工作与浅层工作。
Most study advice assumes you lack discipline. The students I hear from lack the opposite. They have plenty of it, spent in the wrong hours: two good hours from ten in the morning, then four hours of half-reading with a feed open in the next tab. A pause-paw.shop setup for students does not add willpower. It draws a line around the tab that eats the afternoon.
Anyone searching for pausepaw for studying usually has an exam inside ten days and a browser that keeps offering alternatives. Below is a setup that takes about two minutes, then a day shape that fits how attention actually behaves.
The two-minute setup
- Name the four sites that cost you the afternoon. Four, not twenty. A long list becomes a list you argue with, and you win that argument every time.
- Bind the rule to your revision window, not only to the clock. If you revise between ten and twelve, that window is the rule.
- Leave one tab open on purpose. A total lockdown trains you to route around it. One deliberate exception keeps the rule believable.
- Pick the shortest pause that still interrupts. Thirty seconds is usually enough to notice you have drifted.
Then stop configuring. Setup is not studying, and it is unusually good at pretending to be.
Why ninety minutes
Attention runs in cycles of roughly ninety minutes, longer first thing and shorter once lunch has passed. Work inside one cycle, then take a break that counts: walk, eat, look out of a window. Scrolling is not a break in any sense that matters, because it keeps the same loop turning.
Two cycles before lunch and one after is a full day for most people. Students who schedule four usually find the fourth one has been reading the same paragraph for fifty minutes.
A revision day, hour by hour
| Time | What happens | PausePaw setting |
|---|---|---|
| 09:50 | Write the single task for the first block, on paper | Rule already active |
| 10:00-11:30 | First ninety-minute cycle | Sites stopped, pause on trigger |
| 11:30-12:15 | A real break, away from the desk | Rule off |
| 12:15-13:45 | Second cycle, usually the weakest of the three | Rule on |
| 15:00-16:30 | A third cycle if the day needs one | Rule on |
What to do when the pause fires
The pause is thirty seconds of nothing, and what you do with those seconds decides whether the rule helps. Read the sentence you last wrote. If it still makes sense, carry on. If it does not, you stopped reading ten minutes ago and the tab next door was already open in your head.
- Leave one line about where you are. Eight seconds, and it makes restarting after the break far cheaper.
- Check nothing during the pause. Checking is the exact motion the pause exists to interrupt.
- Three pauses in ten minutes means ending the block. That is information about the block, not a verdict on you.
FAQ
- Does this work for group study? Rules are per browser, so everyone installs their own. A shared start time does more for a session than shared settings do.
- What about the machine in the library? Install it there too. Rules run locally, so nothing has to sync for a pause to fire.
- Will it stop research I actually need? Name sites rather than categories. The four tabs that eat your afternoon get stopped and the rest of the browser keeps working.
- Is the free tier enough for a term? It covers base rules and reminders, which is everything this guide uses.
Two minutes of setup, then one honest cycle before lunch. PausePaw is at pause-paw.shop. Start from the home page, write the first rule in the app, and for how to arrange the day around those cycles, read deep work versus shallow work.