Looking at something different on your screen

2021-01-24 Daniel General Tips, Improving your Creativity, Infrastructure, Inspiration, Mac in General, Music & other Art, Tools 0

«Some people don’t understand that sitting in your own house in peace, eating snacks, and minding your own business is priceless.»
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A while ago I wrote about creating your own private virtual museum. You can use the images of museum walls with photos/paintings/etc. you like, and simply export the slides from Keynote (or PowerPoint) as images. Then use the folder with these images to feed a changing desktop background folder.

Museum wall slides exported as images.
Desktop background settings set to use the folder and change every hour.

I wouldn’t use it a my default background, as I’d be distracted by the background changing on its own while I work on it, but it’s great for another virtual desktop (Spaces in Mac OS). You can switch to that space (you can set keyboard shortcuts) and get a new image to look at.

Mac OS allows you to use different virtual desktops (spaces). You should be able to access this view with F3. You can set the keyboard shortcuts in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Mission Control.

And yeah, probably the best break is to step away from your screen, but if you don’t want to and can’t, this is an option to look at something else.