I just put a new “project” up on Github; wanted to share it with you. It’s called Right Now. I’ve been using it for a few months, and I’ve found it to be helpful.
It’s a little hard to call Right Now a “tool,” as it’s so minimalist. And, yet, I’ve found it to be really helpful. In the vein of “use the most basic tool you can to get the job done,” this is the epitome of that “most basic tool.” (Here’s a live demo.)
Everything else to say is covered in the description over at Github, so I’ll just list that here:
Hi there. Charlie here.
Maybe, like me, you …
- start on a multi-step project
- get distracted
- forget what you were working on
- have a hard time ramping back into your work, in part because you can’t remember what you need to be doing
If so, you might find this helpful.
Right Now is simply a temporary text file in a browser tab where you can jot down the thing you’re working on right now. (Example.)
Using Right Now, when I lose focus, it’s trivial to switch over and see what I had been working on. Depending on the number of open tabs you have, you might not even need to tab over, as the <title> element duplicates the content of the window, so you can just glance at the tab bar and get a quick reminder of the task at hand.
You certainly don’t need to load it on your own server, but you’re more than welcome to. You can also just use the publicly-accessible version of it, at http://charliepark.org/rightnow/. Closing your browser tab/window will lose the text you’ve entered. It’s for temporary things.
It uses an embedded font-face (Miso, made by Mårten Nettelbladt), provided by FontSquirrel. You can download Miso for free. Frankly, Right Now looks better when you have Miso on your computer.
Now get back to work!
