progress-watchdog 0.1.0

Progress Watchdog is a Python package that helps you avoid staying stuck or getting tunnel vision while time flows by.

Progress Watchdog

Progress Watchdog: A program to help avoid analysis paralysis and time dilation due to tunnel vision.

External Resources

• Hat tip to the author for the buzzer sound effect I use.

• I used ChatGPT to help me prototype this tool. AI haters please send your complaints, religious treatises, and assertions about the implications this has on my character to /dev/null. I've heard them all before and frankly I don't give a rat's posterior.

Current Status

What works, what doesn't.

Mac works great (tested on Sequoia.latest) - Windows works pretty well, though the mechanism to detect hotkey presses needs more testing. Linux isn't working yet. Natch :)

Installation via uv

Right now you can check the project out from github and run uv run watchdog.py

TODO

• Implement some cleaner way to exit than Ctrl-c with an exception :)
• Make configurables into args or a configuration file or something.
• Make the "I made Progress!" key chord not insert characters into the buffer.