So here are three online tools that are supposed to help you focus on your school work. But we found them so funny, they might even strengthen your procrastination behavior:

1) http://writeordie.com/

The write or die application uses the carrot-and-the stick mechanism to get rid of your writers block. Instead of seeing a blank page in front of you, you will see a picture and depending on whether you are doing well or not, this picture might be pleasant or not so pleasant. Additionally, the site provides stats, virtual to do lists and other “helpful” features. We think - we would probably procrastinate just to see which pictures they can come up with…

2) http://writtenkitten.net/

This site supports your writing progress by showing you different pictures of kittens every time you reach a certain word count. Simple? Maybe but definitely cute. However, seems like a lot of people online are just using dummy text to see the pictures. Not sure that helps avoiding procrastination….

3) https://www.rescuetime.com/

On a more serious note, there is also rescue time, which is the most analytical tool available. It keeps track of your writing process and all the time you spend online, sorts the different pages you visited into categories and calculates the time you send with each category. By trying to highlight how you spend your time, the inventors hope to keep you from distracting behavior. However, this google analytics like tool might just draw you into the distractive pool of data and you will spend hours analyzing what you did, rather than doing something….