Hello! Welcome to my quick little pröject! I've recently (Early July, 2017), been using The Now Habit to "unschedule" my work day. (I recommend getting the dead-trees version if you're interested. The iBooks version doesn't flow very well, plus the parts when applying TNH are kind of hard use in electronic form.)
A quick iPhone timer geared to how I track time using The Now Habit's unschedule.
I juggle my full-time (paying) job at the Ranch with two substantial side-projects, and generally feel overwhelmed, trapped by obligations and having to Work All The Time. And also procrastinate by burning time on Reddit, facebook, the twitters, slack, etc. The Now Habit has helped me so far in carving out chunks of focused, distraction-free work; coupled with "yes, I'm going to spend time on things I really want to do, such as write with fountain pens and make bad electronic music
In fact, it's this general sense of freedom that's letting me let myself make
this little utility. Otherwise I'd be browsing dank memes and filing Xcode
bug reports instead of writing READMEs and making .gitignore files.
This is my highly detailed software behavior architecture document:
- Start the timer.
- It makes a sound after 30 minutes (the minimum amount of "focused time" to count as having done work).
- The timer keeps running until you tell it to stop.
- It'll tell you how much time you spent on this Activity, along with the start time.
This is perfect for copying into my analog unschedule. I use a Field Notes grid book and fountain pens (3 ink colors for different activities), augmented with a pencil.
It works! But of course could be made better
- Run the background and go ping when the 30 minute threashold is passed
- prevent device sleep when run in the foreground
- Display something on the mikey screen