malayh / deepwork_timer

Time tracking tool to track effectiveness of deep work sessions for those who works primarily on a computer.

Deepwork Timer

Simple timer script to track effectiveness of my work sessions. Since I work primarily on a computer, this is a way I am experimenting with the idea of deep work. The idea is to log as much imformation as possible without disturbing the flow of work.

This works on windows only.

What can you do with it?

• Create a task with a objective and durations (minutes)
  • If the timer expires it will notify you
  • You can choose to repeate the previous task with a different duration or create a new task, if the timer expires or if you quite the previous task

Commands

The following are global hot keys to control the timer

• ctrl + alt + p to pause/resume timer
• ctrl + alt + space to register distraction
• ctrl + alt + ` to stop timer

Install

This is really dumb now.

• First do this pip install -r requirments.txt

• Then this python timer.py -i

• Then run the timer.py file

Ides to impliment

• To find minutes yeild per hour
  • How much focused time do I yield every hour that I work
• Context switch panelty detection
  • When switching back and forth between two different cognitively demanding task, you pay a penalty in the form of congnitive stress or lack focus. The goal is to find ways to minimize context switch penalty. So I will try to SOMEHOW detect when I am paying a high price.