Blossom shows what apps, documents, and folders you’ve been using, encouraging you to spend time on the ones you need to. Meet your goals and watch your virtual plant Blossom!
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Here is the latest Blossom UI, with 1-Step custom setup of any app or document. Drag-and-drop setup. Also, check out the simple report. (more on all this below).
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Simple reports - like the one above, easily accessible by clicking on the plant itself.
More in-depth reports can be generated via the Reports icon - to export to Excel for expense accounting, or to print directly to a printer. Thoughts?
Custom settings for apps and documents. If you’re a web developer or work in a browser a lot, set each web page or domain with the time ratio you would like to spend on it. The same can be done with specific project apps, documents, or even a folder.
In the example above, the user drags a Flash 8 file onto Blossom window, and the Instant setup grid pops up. Moving around the grid selects the custom time ratio X/Y. Drop on the desired ratio, and that app/file/folder is set! Now Blossom will watch for those settings.
While defaults may work for most users, some will want to customize further. In the example above, Blossom can also be set to encourage the user to “Stay Under” the selected time criteria - it’s like telling Blossom “for this Flash file, I want to stay under 30 minutes per hour”. “Stay over” or greater-than, and “Hit it” or equal-to are also options.
For lack of a better terms, “Consequences” can be set to “Lazy” “Medium” or “Strict”. This would influence how immediately or directly productivity criteria for this specific document will affect the plant.
If you’ve got some ideas on better terms to use here, let me know. Regarding the “Instant setup” grid, I wanted a “one drag” way to add custom setup info to Blossom, without going into another dialog box with to many settings per document. Hopefully this is a good solution. Thoughts?
Thanks again — your comments and suggestions have shaped this dream app in many ways, and it’s not done yet!
