Comment by sonicanatidae
2 years ago
OMG. I could not do this. I hope it's useful to others, but not for me...at all.
The biggest distraction for me, when working/focusing, is movement at the edge of my vision. You know, like most websites with their moving ads, or fly-out videos that no one asked for, etc.
I'm glad you found your silverbullet, but that specific approach would wreck my productivity.
I don't recommend my solution BUT
Your description is close to what I experience at times, that blinking thing may help you ignore outside the monitor distractions as it is there forcing you to ignore?
Interesting,
Do one and tell me ; )
I cost me $25 or less.... all spares ESP32 (most of them has a LED pinned anyways) and don't bother the heart monitor initially, just set time and rate of descent for the blink.
Cheap test...
I'm fortunate in that I can control my office enough that I can simply eliminate the distractions. For the rest, there's pihole, Brave and Ublock. ;)
I may try this, as an experiment, but going into it, I'm expecting a fail. If I do try it, I'll follow up.
You can't lose as even if it does not work much for you, you will get the building pleasure for sure.
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What if instead of a blinking led, it were a warm incandescent bulb, shaded by a diffuser? Bulbs have some on and off ramp time naturally but maybe this could be purposefully exaggerated so it pulses instead of blinks. Wonder if it would be as effective though.
I've changed the LED to pulse at early interactions, blinking was too crude indeed.
Same. I can't stand people hovering around my desk. Every little thing they do or say distracts me.