Designing a Personal Pebble Watchface
a month ago
- Author created a custom Pebble watchface to help with personal issues like depression, task initiation, and hyperfocus management.
- The watchface provides calendar overview, task initiation support, and alerts to break hyperfocus.
- Design evolved from a clean style to a comic book style with non-uniform event geometry to maintain visual interest.
- Features include moving events towards 12 o'clock to indicate urgency, a countdown for ongoing events, and a work timer with warm-up periods.
- Alarms require steps and taps to dismiss, aiming to force breaks; different alarm types have unique visuals and sounds.
- Step counter uses achievement badges instead of exact counts; battery and connectivity status are displayed with badges.
- Next task from Todoist is shown; an app allows toggling work timer and managing tasks via watch buttons.
- Edge markers show reminders, end of day, sunrise/sunset, and manual alarms for additional context.