Set simple good-bad rules for any app, doc, or URL
Awesome, Blossom is in the MDA finals! Thanks for your votes and support getting the word out.
Blossom is simplifying. As Kevin Rose noted “Very cool idea - although I’d simplify it a bit. I’d also love to see this applied my to-do list. The more tasks I complete, the healthier my plant.”
As forum user dek pointed out, a common misunderstanding about Blossom needs to be cleared up. A lot of users (and a couple guest judges) are not getting the idea that any app, document, URL, or folder can be set with simple Custom health rule criteria.
So, from now on -
Blossom has a very simple “good” or “bad” rule setup. When first opened, any app, doc, URL, or folder can be set on a sliding scale as Good, to Neutral, to Bad for your plant.
The UI solution here is a small overlay setup panel on any app’s Title bar area seen when an app is launched for the first time. Once Blossom is trained, settings can be later adjusted in the prefs.
Update: As suggested in the comments, Blossom should read the system-wide To Do’s in Leopard (and to-do’s in Tiger’s iCal) by default. Completed tasks items will help feed the plant.
So, with Kevin’s to-do list, by default Blossom will work as desired. Further customization could be done by setting to-do task related apps/documents/URLs as Good for the plant.
Thanks again for all the feedback.
