I hacked my clock to control my focus
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I hacked my clock to control my focus
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Re: I hacked my clock to control my focus
#2This is neat. Low cost, built from stolen parts. 10/10 engineering.
Re: I hacked my clock to control my focus
#3I like to set timers. I use the taskbar timer in xfce to set it to say 30mins, and then I work on getting something done in that time. It works really well. Not sure if this has a common name.
This was really helpful when I redid the FastComments admin area, as that was a big slog of UI work that I quickly got tired of. This was before Claude :)
Re: I hacked my clock to control my focus
#4is there something similar for macOS?
Re: I hacked my clock to control my focus
#5I like to set timers. I use the taskbar timer in xfce to set it to say 30mins, and then I work on getting something done in that time. It works really well. Not sure if this has a common name. This was really helpful when I redid the FastComments admin area, as that was a big slog of UI work that I quickly got tired of. This was before Claude :)
Sounds a lot like the Pomodoro Technique.
Re: I hacked my clock to control my focus
#6I like to set timers. I use the taskbar timer in xfce to set it to say 30mins, and then I work on getting something done in that time. It works really well. Not sure if this has a common name. This was really helpful when I redid the FastComments admin area, as that was a big slog of UI work that I quickly got tired of. This was before Claude :)
Sounds a lot like the Pomodoro Technique.
I don't take breaks per se, which is a core part of that technique iirc.
Re: I hacked my clock to control my focus
#7Very cool
Re: I hacked my clock to control my focus
#8is there something similar for macOS?
This isn't quite the same thing, but I have my Mac set up to announce the time every 15 minutes. You can customize the voice, and the voice I'm using causes the computer to sing the time.
All of this is built into the OS, I think the settings are in the control center
Re: I hacked my clock to control my focus
#9This is neat. Low cost, built from stolen parts. 10/10 engineering.
Indeed! Using dconf to achieve this is very impressive. Is there a KDE plasma equivalent to this?
Re: I hacked my clock to control my focus
#10is there something similar for macOS?
I used this for something similar, and is very customisable