Hide Distractions with Clutter Cloak
Posted by Jeff March 08, 2008
My last post was about full-screen text editors. The goal is to reduce options and choices, encouraging focus and flow.
Turns out, there is a more general solution - Clutter Cloak. Invoke it with a keystroke - CC obscures everything on the screen except the child window immediately under the mouse pointer. I changed the hotkey to Ctrl-Space, easier to type.
This mimics Inattentional Blindness - the tunnel vision we get when in extreme focus. Blocking out extranous content is a great way to promote Flow.
Fun video-how many passes does the White team make in this video?
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