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.

We just released a minor update to Concentrate. Here’s what’s changed:

• Added support for Choosy as a browser in “Open websites” action.
• Added support for “Do not disturb” status in Skype.
• Concentrate now honors specific spaces specified for applications set in the Spaces preference pane.
• Handle app’s with helpers correctly (previously it would think an app is running just because it’s helper was running).
• Support for Fluid.app app’s.

Enjoy!