Presence Scheduler

Keeps you active in Slack according to the schedules you set on presencescheduler.com

Presence Scheduler for Slack ============================ Keep your Slack dot 🟢 **green**—on **your** schedule—even when you’re away from the keyboard, switching between workspaces, or letting the laptop sleep. --- Why would I need this? ---------------------- Slack flips you to *Away* after ~10 minutes of real inactivity (or immediately when a tab loses focus). That can break collaboration workflows—stand-ups in threads, on-call handoffs, queue assignments—when teammates don’t know you’re actually around. Presence Scheduler solves that by sending a tiny, harmless activity “pulse” exactly when **your** working hours say you should look available, and staying silent the rest of the time. --- Headline features ----------------- * 🕑 **Schedule-aware** – set multiple windows per workspace, each in its own time-zone, Mon–Sun checkboxes, lunch gaps, or 24 × 7 “always-on”. * 🖥️ **Hidden tab, zero clutter** – one background tab per Slack workspace, no pop-ups, no keyboard hijacking, <0.1 % CPU when idle. * 🌍 **Multi-workspace** – pulses every team you’ve authorised, even across different Slack domains and grid instances. * 🔒 **Private** – all schedule data lives in Chrome Storage; nothing leaves your browser except the synthetic mouse/keyboard events Slack already trusts. * ⏸️ **One-click pause** – un-tick the *Enabled* box in the popup to let Slack idle naturally (great for PTO). * 🔔 **Server-side presence fallback** (optional) – if you grant OAuth, our server keeps you green every 5 minutes even when Chrome is closed. --- Quick start ----------- 1. Click **Add to Chrome → Add extension**. 2. Open the purple “PS” icon – pin it for next time. 3. Copy your **Personal API token** from the Presence Scheduler dashboard (`sk_live_…`) → paste → **Save**. 4. Hit **Fetch schedules** – you’ll see each workspace with a 🟢 dot. 5. Customise windows in the web app; click *Fetch* again to sync. That’s it! The dot stays green whenever at least one rule is active. --- How does it work? ----------------- * Every two minutes a hidden tab dispatches `mousemove` + `keydown` events inside Slack’s DOM—exactly the same events you’d generate by touching the mouse. * No clipboard, file-system, or network permissions. * Tab reuse: we open once, re-inject forever; if you close the tab we reopen next tick. * When the browser sleeps we resume automatically on wake. --- Permissions explained --------------------- | Permission | Why it’s needed | |-----------------------|-------------------------------------------------| | **host** `*.slack.com`| Inject the pulse script into your workspaces. | | **storage** | Save schedules, token, enabled flag. | | **alarms** | Fire a tick every 2 minutes & hourly schedule sync. | | **scripting** (MV3) | Run `content/pulse.js` in the hidden tab. | --- Security & Privacy ------------------ * Source code is unobfuscated, audit anytime. * No analytics, no trackers, no remote logging. * API token is stored with Chrome’s built-in encryption (`chrome.storage.sync`). * Pulses never leave your browser; our server only runs if you opt-in to the fallback feature. Full policy: **presencescheduler.com/privacy** --- Troubleshooting --------------- * **Dot still flips to Away** → Check the popup: Enabled ✔? Token saved? Click *Fetch schedules* again. * **Infinite tabs?** → Make sure Chrome “Tab Groups Collapse Freezing” isn’t force-closing the hidden tab; disable that flag if you’re on Canary. * **Status never shows green on mobile** → Mobile Slack has its own idle logic; you need the desktop/web client open somewhere for presence to propagate. See the FAQ: **presencescheduler.com/faq** --- Changelog --------- * **1.2.0** Per-rule time-zone, red/green status dots in popup, MV3 upgrade. * **1.1.0** Multi-workspace schedules, personal API token auth. * **1.0.0** First public release. --- Support ------- Email sourcecodeholdings@gmail.com --- © 2025 Presence Scheduler