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Noisli – Improve focus and boost your productivity

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Re: Noisli – Improve focus and boost your productivity

#42
post #32

Color of this page hurts my eyes :( Ability to change background color would be great, after sitting in front of terminal for hours this green background is too bright.

You find the option to stop the background color clicking on the wheel icon on the left menu ;)

Re: Noisli – Improve focus and boost your productivity

#44

This is great. I was using Coffitivity which has been featured oh HN before. Unfortunately they tried to launch a paid version and that didn't work out all that well. They wanted to tie it to a facebook account and I can't get on board with that strategy so I decided not to use it. There's also the fact that they were charging either 4-5 bucks a month (can't recall exactly) for what amounted to 3 additional mp3 files…

Thank for the feedback and for sharing your experience. Hope you enjoy Noisli :)

Re: Noisli – Improve focus and boost your productivity

#46
post #14

Looks great! I would love it if you added a "coffee-shop" sound, something like this: http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/cafeRestaurantNoiseGenerato...

Suggestion noted ;)

there are a couple guys at work who are into these types of background noise settings.. but they kept getting upset at what they found because after a while you can clearly tell the cutoff point. you'd hear a quarter drop at some point, then know exactly when it was coming later, and your mind would start focusing on that, and that defeats the point of the thing.

if you could make a mix of coffee shop sounds and then randomize them in a way that feels natural, that would be a hit ;)

Re: Noisli – Improve focus and boost your productivity

#47
post #33

I have a 4 month old daughter and paid for a white noise app to help her sleep / calm down. This is a perfect replacement with better design etc. I urge you to make an app marketed towards parents - I would pay for it.

Thanks for the feedback! If you have iOS we also have an app :) https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/noisli/id862773459?mt=8

Re: Noisli – Improve focus and boost your productivity

#48

I love, recommend, and use Noisli often in our open plan office. The only tiny annoyance is that I really like the ambient cafeteria noise, and after a while I start to notice the looping! There's a very prominent bit where a lady shouts "Swwwwing!". There isn't much you can do about it though other than make the sample much longer, and it's hardly a problem. Just something I notice. Thanks for the site. I actually r…

There's a way to make this harder to detect: create "loops" which are actually a multitude of loops that have prime number lengths. The individual components will repeat, but "beats" of simultaneous repeats won't exist, giving the illusion of a much longer sequence.

I've seen an example in graphics used to create very large tiling patterns from a small image space. See:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110410071059/http://designfesti...

Re: Noisli – Improve focus and boost your productivity

#50
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Hell. Fucking. No.

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