progress-watchdog 0.1.4

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 progress-watchdog'

If you want to run the program without installing, you can use uv for that as well:

╭─cpatti at rocinante in ~ 25-03-09 - 21:06:30
╰─○ uv tool run progress-watchdog                                                    <region:us-east-1>
usage: progress-watchdog [-h] --buzzer BUZZER [--timeout TIMEOUT]
progress-watchdog: error: the following arguments are required: --buzzer
╭─cpatti at rocinante in ~ 25-03-09 - 21:06:36
╰─○ uv tool run progress-watchdog --help                                             <region:us-east-1>
usage: progress-watchdog [-h] --buzzer BUZZER [--timeout TIMEOUT]

options:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  --buzzer BUZZER    Filename for the alert sound to play when no progress is detected
  --timeout TIMEOUT  Number of seconds to wait before alerting that no progress was detected.
╭─cpatti at rocinante in ~ 25-03-09 - 21:06:54
╰─○                                                                                  <region:us-east-1>

You'll also need to provide an MP3 file that the program will play to shock you out of your tunnel vision :)

I used this one but you can choose any you like!

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.