Getting physical aka physical buttons

Akrasia
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I too have an internet button for beeminding, but I’ve gone a few (ok, a lot) steps further with the functionality:

  1. It’s not perfect and (at the moment) requires something running on a server of mine to be accurate (the beeminder IFTTT triggers need some more support), but I’ve mapped each of the 11 leds to one of my beeminder goals. If the goal is green, the led is green, etc. The goal is to make the whole button green.
  2. Each of the four buttons map to a different beeminder goal (the button closest to the LED that represents the goal, of course.
  3. Pressing all buttons goes into a “pomodoro” mode, where the internet button displays green lights in a cricle, slowly turning them off as the 25 minutes count down. It sends a message to IFTTT at the start and at the end of the pomodoro, and beeminds a pomodoro when done.

I’m working on publishing the code and maybe some instructions on using it, if folks are interested. It is fantastically helpful, I’ve never had as many of my goals green before.

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