People have been encouraging me to share my anti-akrasia tricks, but it feels inappropriate to dedicate a top-level post solely to unproven techniques that work for some person and may not work for others, so:
Go ahead and share your anti-akrasia tricks!
Let's make it an open thread where we just share what works and what doesn't, without worrying (yet) about having to explain tricks with deep theories, or designing proper experiments to verify them. However, if you happen to have a theory or a proposed experiment in mind, please share.
Bragging is fine, but please share the failures of your techniques as well – they are just as valuable, if not more.
Note to readers – before you read the comments and try the tricks, keep in mind that the techniques below are not yet proven supported or explained by proper experiments, and are not yet backed by theory. They may work for their authors, but are not guaranteed to work for you, so try them at your own risk. It would be even better to read the following posts before rushing to try the tricks:
There are a couple of other trivial inconveniences that can be installed on the path between you and the browser:
Remove the browser shortcut from the quick launch / taskbar and the desktop, so that every time you feel the urge to browse the interwebz, you have to actually navigate the Program Menu (or its equivalent in your OS).
If you use Firefox, turn off your bookmarks toolbar via the right-click menu, so that you have to actually type URLs.
Under Windows XP, I noticed that if I disabled my WLAN adapter while logged in as Administrator, I couldn't re-enable it while logged in as Home. So I decided to generally work as Home with the adapter disabled, and when I needed to go online, temporarily plug in an external adapter (possibly limiting my online time using my laptop's battery and/or my bladder). I should note that I'm not doing any of that now, though.
Occasionally I've driven to somewhere where I don't have access to the Internet at all, and sometimes left my laptop home too, but I haven't adopted that as a regular thing; for one thing, I need a separate motivation to get me in the car to begin with.