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Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by [deleted] »

slightwinder wrote: post #53

This looks retro-sleek. Really cool design. Does this work without cloud-connection? Does it work with the Flipper Zero? Considering it's from the same company, I would think there is some synergy available. And it seems to lack a speaker. For some reason, I would love to play radio on it, not sure why.. EDIT Ok, found the speaker. Nice.

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Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by 0cf8612b2e1e »

turblety wrote: post #58
0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume lawyers have some mechanism like this already. Law firms can require staff to allocate every 6-8 minutes of their day. Which sounds terrible and likely to be wildly inaccurate as people cannot be bothered to invest that much overhead into their job.

> likely to be wildly inaccurate My gut reaction and prejudiced against all lawyers is it's probably in the law firms interest that these are inaccurate.

For sure that seems the intention. Create an “audit trail” for billing while simultaneously making it so onerous that the employees have to fudge the numbers.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by hobs »

turblety wrote: post #58
0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume lawyers have some mechanism like this already. Law firms can require staff to allocate every 6-8 minutes of their day. Which sounds terrible and likely to be wildly inaccurate as people cannot be bothered to invest that much overhead into their job.

> likely to be wildly inaccurate My gut reaction and prejudiced against all lawyers is it's probably in the law firms interest that these are inaccurate.

In my experience it just means a lawyer marks each hour via charging you 10 increments, and that in some cases some forms of comms are generally charged at a sub-hourly charge.

In most cases working with a lawyer is a fixed fee or going to be on a retainer basis where the hours pile up regardless, not so much about tracking every moment for every person.

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by simple10 »

This is incredibly similar to a personal project I've been prototyping. I love that Flipper brought it to market and will buy one. A fully open source & open hardware timer like this would be awesome. Cheaper DIY kit with 3d printable case. Does anyone know if one exists?

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

qmarchi wrote: post #34
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does cover people interrupting you to ask “ok but how long will you be busy?” :) unless you want to replace your taped clip art every minute or so.

You can set your clipart to an end time rather than a count down. "Busy until 16:00"

Clever! Thanks you just saved me 200 bucks :)

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by MOARDONGZPLZ »

imglorp wrote: post #64

All these sad people working in offices that need to defend their focus. I will never do that again.

I downvoted this because it is really pejorative to call people sad in this way for doing their jobs. Though I do agree that it stinks sometimes to be focused and have people walk by and cause context shifts.

Regarding the original topic, I mostly work from home and even there like pomodoro timers because they help me focus. Set it for 25 minutes and focus until the time is up, take 5, then get back to it. Works great for me!

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