Publicspace.net has released Vitamin-R 1.64 (an update of its Mac OS X compatible productivity tool for creative professionals. The new version adds support for the Growl notification framework. Vitamin-R is a collection of tools and techniques for managing attention and maintaining motivation.
Recapture the lost of art of joyful concentration. Overcome procrastination. Rediscover the motivation within yourself. Vitamin-R helps you reduce distractions by automatically eliminating desktop clutter and hiding unrelated applications. Syncs with all your Mac OS X and iOS Devices Vitamin-R for Mac seamlessly syncs with the iPhone version and multiple Macs via its simple Dropbox integration, so you can log your time slices wherever you are. Recapture the lost of art of joyful concentration. Overcome procrastination. Rediscover the motivation within yourself.
According to the folks at publicspace.net, it complements the task capturing and organizing features of modern to-do list managers by forcing you to concentrate fully on one task a time and keeping distractions at bay. It breaks down large, vaguely defined tasks into a series of short “time slices” of between 10 and 30 minutes, each with specific and actionable objectives. Vitamin-R provides you with the “Now & Later Board,” complete with FastType magic, to give you a place to quickly dump all those things that go through your head and allows to get back to the task at hand. It requires Mac OS X 10.6 or higher. The single user version of Vitamin-R is available for US$19.99 from the Mac App Store and for $19.95 from the publicspace web store. The web store also offers family, business and enterprise licensing, and customers may chose to include a “forever upgrade” with their purchase. Each Vitamin-R web store purchase includes a free license for its companion product, Noise Machine, which is also available separately starting at $4.95.