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My calendar fills my work blocks and switches my Mac to Focus on its own

An AI Skill reads his main Google Calendar, works out the free time in his day, and after he confirms, fills a separate calendar with 50 minute focus blocks and 25 minute chore blocks based on the Pomodoro technique. A script that runs every minute then turns his Mac's work Focus mode on and off to match those blocks, and he says it is running well so far.

How it works

  1. The AI Skill reads the day's events in his main Google Calendar
  2. It finds the free stretches and proposes work blocks in a table
  3. After he confirms, it registers the blocks in a work block calendar
  4. A script run by launchd every minute checks that calendar and switches the Mac's Focus mode on or off

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent does not just plan the day. Its calendar entries physically switch his Mac's notifications off and back on, minute by minute, all day.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on blog.jicoman.info. See the original ↗

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