Re: feature-request: Time profiles

bartlett morgan <bartlett.morgan <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I hope I'm not going to 'left-field' here but on purely face value, those
> ideals you mentioned - working in blocks, spending time with family etc - sound
> like things that you could achieve by being more disciplined in your approach
> than relying on something like software to do.I think software like Workrave
> should serve to enhance ones discipline level, not create it for you. I don't
> think any software can do that for you really.

Nonetheless, relatively small changes in Workrave could make a big
difference in how much help it can provide in enhancing discipline.

I think it can help to understand the situation if you think of your
computer as an extension of your brain.  If there are some things you
are having difficulty getting the biological part of your brain to
handle, you can compensate with the silicon part of your brain.

-- 
Joe

> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Joe Wells <jbwells <at> blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>     Paul Kohler <hexbolt42 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>     > I'd like to be able to limit the amount of time I spend working or
>     > browsing during certain time intervals. A hypothetical example: during a
>     > normal work morning, I could put in up to 5 hours; after making|having
>     > lunch I could put in another 4 hours before dinner; after dinner, I
>     > would prefer to spend time with the family, so I'd have an upper limit
>     > of 1 hour for browsing before bed.
>
>     Yes, it would be nice if Workrave directly supported what you are
>     asking for.
>
>     I don't know if this helps, but here is what I did.
>
>     I ended up doing this separately, by writing a program that analyzed
>     ~/.workrave/idlelog..log.  Anyway, I needed to make it reward-based
>     rather than relying on Workrave to block me.  See earlier messages on
>     this mailing list.
>
>     You might also try programmatically adjusting Workrave's settings via
>     cron jobs that run at specific times.  For an example of how to do
>     this, see this bug report:
>
>      http://issues.workrave.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=770
>
>     I hope this message is helpful.
>
>     --
>     With my best regards,
>
>     Joe
>
>     > I'm new to this mailing list, so please do let me know if this is
>     > already suggested.
>     >
>     > Paul
>
> --
> Bartlett Morgan

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