When I leave home heading in to the office, or leave the office to head home, I like to finish my thought and quit almost all the apps I use regularly. The reason is so I start fresh when I crack open my laptop again. Instead of quitting everything by hand, I setup a Concentrate activity I call ‘Cleanup’ that quits all my apps for me. When it’s done quitting everything I’ve told it to (which is almost everything running) it runs an AppleScript that simply tells Concentrate to stop Concentrating (script here).
What do I allow to keep running? Path Finder, Webnote and Concentrate itself.
I’ve been using this action for a while now and thought I’d share it. Although this isn’t really what we built Concentrate to do, it’s still in line with the goal of removing distractions.
Surely there are plenty of other ways to accomplish this, but since I always have Concentrate at the ready this works best for me. Feel free to share other ideas in the comments.
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Guys, i can see your app being very helpful to a lot of people at my uni including myself. I would really wish it was available for windows. thanks.
Nice approach.
The code can be simplified a little, made marginally faster, and prevented from launching Path Finder when its is not running, or complaining if Path Finder is not installed:
tell application id "com.apple.finder" to close Finder windows
tell application id "com.apple.systemevents"
if (count of (processes where creator type = "PFdR")) > 0 then ¬
tell application id "com.cocoatech.PathFinder" to close finder windows
end tell