Intentional

 I am a hacker in the sense that I hack together systems and code to do things for me using economy of effort. ("Economy of effort" is not to be confused with laziness. They can look similar.)

I have maximized my mobile phone (Google Pixel 6a) to do lots of things. 

Ex. 

• Shake phone to turn on the flashlight 
• Long press to open music controls for all the streaming devices in the house
• Start a timer for breaks or lunches at work 
• Send texts based on time or location 
• Flash the light and say "HERE I AM!" until I tap a button being displayed 

Last Christmas Susan gifted me a bangle.js 2 watch. 

It uses Javascript to do all the smart things. 

And it can send messages to a phone. 

So I built an app (Lyrion Player) that could do things with with my music player by sending commands from the watch to a bridging app on my phone and then to an app that can do more things. 

Watch>>Gadgetbridge>>Tasker>>some other thing

Swipe up and down for volume. Swipe right for next song. Tap the middle to pause/play. Tap in the lower right to open a menu of different stations. 

I like it. It does what I want. 

It's effective but only works for me in my home. 

And, because it was hard-coded for what I wanted it to do at the time, changing it was a pain in the ass. 

I wanted more and better. 

So I hacked something together. 

The watch app looks much like the Favorites above. It's just a menu.

But..... It now has a companion web site that lets a user add commands to the watch.

And there was much rejoicing.

But... The list of commands grew long and crowded.

So I added a way to insert separators between types of commands! 

(Rejoice!) 

But.... Do I really want to see all the commands related to each other all the time? No, I do not. 

Now there are "Folders" and sub-folders. 

(rejoice again) 

But..... How can you re-arrange things. 

Added drag handles to the configuration so things can be moved around! 

And.... there was that one time I wanted to launch Lyrion Player... So I added the ability to launch native app.s.. And show a list of all the installed apps to chose from (because typing it in is hard). 

Also.... Saving and loading a configuration should be a thing too. I made it happen. 

Now, the thing to remember is that I don't write code. I hack at things. You have never seen someone copy and paste other people's code like this guy. Write, test, re-write. Recognize that I broke something and spend HOURS trying to figure out what it was. 

I did it though. 

Intentional is now in the watch "app store" 

https://espruino.github.io/BangleApps/?id=intentional

The in-app description : https://espruino.github.io/BangleApps/?id=intentional&readme