The best-ROI app on this phone is Opal — an app whose only job is blocking distractions
markjeffrey · x · 2026-10-21
The author says he pays for many AI tools, but the best-ROI app on his phone is Opal, which simply blocks things: once enabled, all pings disappear and he gets more done in two hours than in a whole distracted day.
He muses that the simplest app is what makes all the fancy ones actually useful, and asks whether others run blockers too.
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