Blossom learns what 'productive' means to you.
A main goal of Blossom is to have a virtual plant that responds to your productivity.
So, while Blossom will contain a database of default responses to apps, document types, and website URLs, for many users easy custom settings will be vital.
The last blog post talked about how we can set custom productivity criteria. Here are a some UI mockup snippets to illustrate.
At the first launch of an unknown app or website, Blossom provides a small panel to quickly add custom criteria. After 10 seconds of non-interaction, the panel will fade, and default rules are applied.
While the above panel is small, here is an even less intrusive alternative in the title bar. This would apply the custom rule to the currently running profile.
Day-to-day use of Blossom. An optional Apple menu status icon provides feedback and quick access to Blossom preferences.
Integrated with Mac OS X. Context menues also provide direct access to health criteria prefs for specific apps, documents, or folders.
Gotta love the shrooms! :)
And finally, more OS X integration - tracking your non-computer tasks! Blossom responds to completed To Do items from iCal (or any app using Leopard’s new system-wide To Dos) and adds this data to your plant’s health metric.
That’s it for now. Thanks for your feedback and suggestions.
