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I use grayscale when I'm finding I'm too distracted by all the stuff on my phone or computer. It helps me focus on what I'm doing sometimes and is a visual reminder that, for whatever reason, I need to try harder than usual to avid distractions that day.

This has been a little trickier since I have started programming more. I really like syntax highlighting.

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Another solution to this problem could be opening seperate users on the computer. One for serious work, one for leisure.

One could probably block facebook, hn, news sites, etc. on the work user, and only have files and programs related to work.

I really want switchable, individually suspendable workspaces as an OS feature. A workspace for each development project, one for each writing/research task, one for time-wasting browsing, one for gaming, and so on.

Actually KDE has had a similar feature for a while now. You can define "Activities" in KDE, when you switch between them all your settings and opened windows change.

For example you can define an Activity for each project, arrange your windows and settings (ie. desktop shortcuts, widgets, etc.), work on you project, then switch to a different activity. When you come back to your project, you'll continue from where you've left.

Not exactly what you're asking for... but Qubes domains achieve something like this: https://www.qubes-os.org/video-tours/

This is a fantastic idea. I'm going to try this tomorrow.

HN thread on an article that links to other articles about turning off syntax highlighting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11277183

Apt to push HN threads in an HN thread about ditching feeds

Wow, there is a lot of stuff there. About a year ago I looked for some contrast based syntax highlighting for Atom and didn't find anything usable, but maybe it's time to look again.

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