A simple package to disconnect from the online world for a while, possibly reconnecting later. Any interruptions or distractions which occur once the command is run are guaranteed to be local.
the function ~quiet~ can be used anywhere in emacs where a lack of network access could be seen as a feature, e.g. as a mode-hook (or with ~defadvice~) to your preferred distraction free writing environment.
~M-x quiet-reconnect~ will manually reconnect to the network, however you can enable a timer to automatically reconnect by setting ~quiet-timer~ to a number of minutes. e.g. ~(setq quiet-timer 60)~ will enable ~quiet~ to reconnect after one hour. if ~quiet-timer~ is set to ~0~ it won't reconnect automatically.
you may want to ~customize~ or ~setq~~quiet-disconnect~ and ~quiet-connect~ to the appropriate shell commands to turn your network (or single interface) on or off.
- [[https://www.worldcat.org/title/flow-the-psychology-of-optimal-experience/oclc/848200090][Mihaly Csikszentmihályi (1990). Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Harper & Row. ISBN 9780060162535]]
- [[https://hbr.org/2011/11/the-myth-of-monotasking/][The Myth of Monotasking]].
