Designing calm software

Collectively, these three features are explorations in the idea of software explicitly designed around taking breaks. Break and holiday mode let you disable your reader while you are away. Catch-up mode helps you catch up after you have been away for a while. Night mode lets you configure your account in such a way that your reader is disabled until morning if you want.

Via James Coffee Blog

An idea that I’ve never considered, but which seems to fight back against the engagement by all means virus that has infected all of us.