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Human-computer context switching. Which is why I started making Cleave: An application that lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading ope
by eivarv 6y ago
Human-computer context switching.
Which is why I started making Cleave: An application that lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applications, their windows, tabs, open files/documents and so on.
Started because of frequent multitasking heavy work with limited resources.
Made it because I wanted to switch between studying, working, reading, looking for an apartment, etc. without manually managing all states or consuming all resources.
Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license verification and delta updates, but I keep getting sidetracked...
https://cleave.app https://cleave.app
- TimJRobinson 6y agoI love this idea! I've never found a good solution to this problem, used to try different logins etc but the save and restore of state doesn't work very well. Could combine this with site/app blocking tools to ensure when you load the studying state you don't get distracted too.
- o-__-o 6y agoThe KDE window manager allows you to set window specific hints based on title or x resource. Once upon a time I wrote a tool that managed the current state in case of a log off (bad graphics driver that caused Xorg to restart) Blocking sites was done with squid time-based ACLs. Now I’m wondering how productive I could be combining the two