I talk, in part, about eliminating distractions — turning off the noise.

“That’s damn good advice”, I thought to myself.

So, I set up my blockers, on all my devices, to turn off the news.

It’s wonderful. I get the odd update from what passes by, but I’ve not seen anything really for well over a month.

This is a step change. I recommend trying it. (I have some little banter about Socrates avoiding the Forum that goes here, but I’ll skip that.)

@carlton I really enjoyed watching this! As an almost 40 year old programming enthusiast, this was inspiring and gave me some ideas for the future.

@carlton it's not classic it's legendary mate

@wsvincent 🤗

Glad you enjoyed it @hmatsuuchi

The one thing left is the Fedi.

I’m happy to have it scrolling past as the days goes on, but I wake up with a couple of hundred new posts that, once thinking about it, I really don’t want to wade through.

For this, I’ve been using @adamghill’s https://fediview.com which you can set for (say) 12 hours, and it’ll give the important posts.

I’m now happily sponsoring @adamghill for fediview.com. It’s great. Again recommended. 🥰

@carlton @adamghill Interesting, will give it a try!

@carlton Thanks for sponsoring me! Personally, I look at the fediview email digest every morning to get a sense for what’s going on. Let me know if a new feature would be particularly useful and I can look into adding it! 😀

@adamghill OK, one idea: Could you add a time option for when the digest email is generated and sent?

e.g. I'd like mine at 6:50AM Europe/Madrid. (Rather than ≈2PM)

(Also: don't seem to be able to see/access the settings on the mobile layout.)

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@carlton Gah timezones! Yep, it's a good idea. And mobile probably needs some work all around. I'll add them both to my todos.

@adamghill hehe. Yes. Sorry to make it difficult. First pass doesn’t need to let me enter localised time. (I can do math 😜)

@carlton I added the backend support for scheduling emailed digests in https://github.com/adamghill/fediview/pull/17.

I spent way too much time trying to deal with timezone math, so yeah, just gonna stick to UTC for now. 😂

Once I verify the backend works as expected, I'll add in the frontend code to let users configure it. 👍

@carlton I've added a UI to schedule the time the daily digest gets sent by https://fediview.com. Hopefully it all makes sense -- I'll probably try to tweak the UI at some point, but this is better than nothing!

UTC-only still. 😇

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@adamghill super, thanks! (I checked only yesterday for this so excited to give it a try 🥳)

@carlton I just tested again on production and it looks like it's working as expected for me, but let me know if you run into problems.

I did tweak the text a little bit to make it more clear that the “scheduled time” is approximate. 🚀

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