Make your PowerMate breath at the rhythm of your life

I am a fan of the Gettings Things Done methodology (GTD), by David Allen. I use OmniFocus, an application that I can not praise enough.
I am also a geek, and love shiny toys. I own and use a PowerMate knob, from Griffin. I use it mainly to control music, by taping on it to play/pause iTunes and control the sound volume.

Ever since I received it, I liked its cool flashing light. But as cool as it is, I never found a real use for it. Something so cool and attractive must have a meaning. Like the sexy glances from the girl you are flirting with. If they’d be meaningless, life would be sad. And confusing.

I wrote a script to change the light configuration of the PowerMate according to the state of my GTD system. Now, my PowerMate is breathing at the same rhythm than my life:

• If some actions are over-due, it will flash very rapidly.
• Then, until I achieved my Most Important Actions (tasks marked with a flag in OmniFocus), it will gently pulse.
• Once I have no more over-due nor Most Important Actions, it will dim itself.

Can you see the life in here? At least, I definitively feel it when suddenly, my desk grabs my attention with some light flashes.

I asked Mac OS X to run this little script every 2 minutes.
I used Lingon to set it up. Click on the image below to see an example of configuration.

Click here to download the OmniFocusLightPowerMate application.

I have to go, something on my desk started flashing. Bye!