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It is called Black Screen for Windows. With it, you can make your screen black by pressing a key combination.
I set it up to make my screen black for 5 – 7 minutes after every 30 minutes of work. It forces me to take periodic breaks, not to sit at the computer for too long.
It is a cool tool to refresh attention too.
Feel free to check it at https://blackscreen1.com/
Was lots of fun. I still do write "personal productivity software" (never call it that way, though). But the truth is - most of these issues are either already solved today or don't exist as a problem in the first place, provided you can afford paying for a solution and value you time more. Which is a good thing, but slightly less fun.
I have created Bartib a time tracker for the command line: https://github.com/nikolassv/bartib . I needed something to track my activities at work. All other solutions that I tried out where too complicated as they often targeted whole teams, included accounting options that I don't need or were just an usability nightmare. When I created Bartib I tried too keep it as simple as possible which meant for me a CLI tool.…
I have very many tools just for myself on all platforms I work on/with. I tend to automate whatever I do (or anticipate to do) more than once. I started doing this in the 80s.
I'm finally in a position to be able to create custom scripts (Powershell) to help automate tasks. The ease of using Powershell+SQLite to creat minimalist "programs" has been incredibly addictive.