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For a long time I've wanted one of these, to serve as an "interruptility" indicator to others: green = "I'm looking at the internet, please interrupt me so I ca
by davi 16y ago
For a long time I've wanted one of these, to serve as an "interruptility" indicator to others: green = "I'm looking at the internet, please interrupt me so I can possibly do something more useful", amber = "I'm working but okay", red = "only interrupt me if it's truly urgent". It could be programmable, so that (for example) it could automatically go to green when Firefox had HN as its frontmost window.
Imagine a lab or office in which everyone used an LED in this way. It might be nice.
- jonknee 16y agoSort of an "On Air" sign for hackers.
- kristiandupont 16y agoI bought one of these: http://www.brighthub.com/electronics/gizmos-gadgets/articles/83175.aspx?image=103657 http://www.brighthub.com/electronics/gizmos-gadgets/articles... and wrote a plugin for CherryTomato: http://www.beatpoints.com/cherrytomato http://www.beatpoints.com/cherrytomato - so now when I am in pomodoro, it goes red, indicating to my colleagues not to bother me. Works pretty well, though the Skype/messenger status seems more effective.
- jamesbritt 16y agoWhen I was with Happy Camper Studios we used to stick colored index cards up on our desk backboards or atop a monitor to indicate willingness to be interrupted. Red meant leave me alone; green meant open for interruption; yellow meant you can poke me if it's work-related. We looked around for lights and such (I wanted a traffic light) but they were too pricey so we went low-tech.
- mikepurvis 16y agoWe use closet lights for this at my current startup, but I really like the idea of it automatically updating based on frontmost task. It'd be great if there were a project that provided the software side of this for at least Ubuntu, Windows, and Mac OS.