clean-workspace 0.4.0

Collect all browser URLs, output to terminal, and archive to todoist. Useful for cleaning up your workspace at the end of the day, without loosing important urls.

Clean Workspace: Archive Web Browser Tabs

I've been experimenting with how to make my mornings more productive. One glitch I've found in my mind is I can easily get distracted by open tabs on my browser, especially if I'm trying to write or read something which I want to give my full attention to. I've found that if I close all my tabs (similar idea to shrinking context size), I can focus better on the task at hand. However, I don't want to lose any interesting tabs so I never actually do that.

This is simple utility to automate this process. It will close all your tabs (in both Safari & Chrome), and send them to todoist (and output) them to the terminal.

We'll see if this actually helps!

Installation

pip install clean-workspace
clean-workspace

Development

poetry install
poetry run clean-workspace

Usage

• Add your todoist token to .envrc and direnv allow .
• Customize the url and domain blacklist

❯ clean-workspace --help
Usage: clean-workspace [OPTIONS]

Options:
  --blacklist-domains PATH
  --blacklist-urls PATH
  --tab-description TEXT    Description for tab
  --help                    Show this message and exit.

Regex Entries

You can use regex matches in both the url and domain blacklist files. For example, if you want to blacklist all Zoom domains, you can use the following:

echo "/.*zoom\.us/" >> ~/.config/clean-workspace/blacklist-domains.txt

A regex entry starts & ends with /, like sed.

Collecting Tab Description Via AppleScript

Here's a quick script you can use to collect a description of what you were working on via applescript:

dialogResult=$(
osascript <<EOT
set dialogResult to display dialog "What were you working on yesterday?" buttons {"OK"} default button "OK" giving up after 300 default answer ""
return text returned of dialogResult
EOT
)

Here's a full example of using this with hyper-focus.

Inspiration

• https://gist.github.com/aleks-mariusz/cc27b21f2c5b91fbd285
• https://github.com/tominsam/shelf-python/blob/f357d9b147fa651034b71501edabf65f59d5befa/extractors/ComAppleSafari.py#L11

TODO

• Indicate in python config that this is macOS only in poetry config?
• move blacklist files into example area of repo
• look at previous tasks and see if links are contained there before including them again
• support google chrome canary