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I think the reason I& #39;m so much more productive at night is because I spend the whole day asking myself "How much time do I have left before my next meeting?" and I end up just being super anxious and unproductive.
So, obviously, I& #39;ve been thinking about ways to avoid this. 
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For starters, this is no different from my local calendar app pulling event information from a remote server. If the remote server could push, life would be much easier. But that doesn& #39;t entirely solve the problem, if the time that& #39;s pushed to me is "5 minutes"...
...there& #39;s not a lot of meaningful stuff I can do in those 5 minutes. Maybe pet my cats. Which I do. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đŒ" title="Katzengesicht mit ironischem LĂ€cheln" aria-label="Emoji: Katzengesicht mit ironischem LĂ€cheln">
So let& #39;s say there& #39;s some chunk of time, E, which can be used to do meaningful amounts of work. As an aside: Yes, I avoided using T to represent that time to catch everyone off guard. Anyway, E can be different for each person, but let& #39;s use a tomato as an example and go with 25.
Assuming I need ~5 minutes to prep for whatever meeting is coming up as well, that brings E to 30 minutes for me. So I need E gap in between meetings to do meaningful work. Cool. But there will be plenty of times when I& #39;ll only have 5-15 minutes in between. What do I do then? https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ€" title="Denkendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Denkendes Gesicht">
Well, we can assume that not all work is meaningful. So let& #39;s say anything that doesn& #39;t fit the bill for meaningful work is...menial? Clearing out the email inbox, responding to Slack messages, etc.
So that means I can fit meaningful work into all gaps >= E, and menial work into other gaps. Cool.
Note that interaction with pets is not menial work. It& #39;s a privilege. ^_^
Okay, so now we& #39;ve set up some classification around time & work. Time to throw some automation and alerting in there so that I can have meaningful information _pushed_ to me so I don& #39;t have to worry about _pulling_ it.
I know, let& #39;s look at the Google Calendar API reference to see if we can catch a broadcasted event or something when a calendar event is ending. https://developers.google.com/calendar/v3/reference">https://developers.google.com/calendar/...
Okay, I don& #39;t see anything like this in the API reference. And this unanswered question from 2019 makes me think it doesn& #39;t exist...at least in the form I wanted. https://support.google.com/calendar/thread/13472111?hl=en">https://support.google.com/calendar/... That& #39;s fine, I& #39;ll figure something out. Where there& #39;s an API, there& #39;s a way. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ”ïžââïž" title="Man detective" aria-label="Emoji: Man detective">
Well, first-cut naive strategy: Get events when the day starts, subscribe to event modifications by subscribing to push notifications ( https://developers.google.com/calendar/v3/push),">https://developers.google.com/calendar/... maintain state for the next N events on the client so we& #39;re aware of start/end times, ...
... update local state on push notifications, calculate gap between events in state using a configurable E, then push notifications to human from the client based on these calculations. Client -> human notifications should contain time & activity classification information.
So if you were to build this using @getpostman, you& #39;d need two monitors: One to listen to the push events, another to push notifications to the human. You& #39;d also need some kind of storage, so an environment or @airtable comes into the picture.
Okay, time for breakfast now. Or is it lunch? https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ€" title="Denkendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Denkendes Gesicht"> Either way, I& #39;ll put this up on the @getpostman API Network whenever I build it. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ" title="Grinsendes Gesicht mit lĂ€chelnden Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Grinsendes Gesicht mit lĂ€chelnden Augen">
Or the next person to join my team can build it as part of their onboarding! Did I mention that @getpostman is hiring? Come work with us (me)!
