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I suspect that I would be more focused and work better if I did more of my engineering work away from the computer, so I'm looking at aspects of my workflow to make analog. I'm considering printing documentation and putting it in a 3-ring binder but I would appreciate insights from others who have done this.

So far my plan is

1. gather the vital documentation for a given project (including language, apis, etc)

2. choose which aspects of the documentation to print. Let's use the Elm language for example, I wouldn't need to print docs for every single package just the ones I'm using in the project.

3. clean up the documentation so it is print-ready. I did a dry run for the Elm language and realized this would be a tedious step but doing it well should result in less wasted paper and easier-to-navigate documentation

3. print

4. collect into separate 3-ring binders with tabs to make navigation easier. For example I would have a binder for Elm, a separate binder for the backend language, a separate binder for miscellaneous

I know that these will get out of date, and I suspect some documentation like React and HTML will be difficult to curate due to the large volume. I'm primarily a web developer and these technologies seem to move faster than others which means the risk of them getting outdated is higher.

So while "print out documentation" sounds simple enough, as I've begun thinking it through it seems more complicated than it should and I would love any insight anyone here has, including any references to blogs about this, and especially if a service already exists that does this sort of thing

I want to be able to schedule multiple Downtime periods on macOS, but that isn't possible. So instead I'm looking for an open source app that will enforce a downtime schedule.

Alternatively, some applescript to automate the UI but that has been an exercise in frustration for me