Flower Grow 🌸

Watch a flower grow in your VS Code status bar as you write code. It takes 1 hour of real, active coding time to go from a seed to a full bloom — no timers to start, no configuration, just code.

How It Works

Flower Grow watches for actual editing activity in the editor. Every second you're typing counts toward your flower's growth; if you stop for 15 seconds (reading docs, in a meeting, grabbing coffee), growth pauses until you start typing again. Simply having VS Code open in the background doesn't count — only real focused work does.

Once your flower reaches 100% (1 hour of accumulated active time), it blooms, you get a little celebration notification, and a brand new seed is planted automatically so the cycle continues.

Growth Stages

The current stage and percentage are always visible in the status bar, so it's a quiet, ambient companion rather than an intrusive timer.

Your Garden

Every flower you fully grow is saved to your personal Garden. Click the status bar item at any time (or run Flower Grow: Show Garden from the Command Palette) to open a panel showing:

• Your currently growing flower and its progress
• Every flower you've ever harvested, with the date and time it bloomed

Your garden persists across VS Code restarts, so nothing is lost between sessions.

Commands

Why Use This

Flower Grow isn't a productivity tracker or a pomodoro timer — there's no score, no streaks to protect, no guilt if you skip a day. It's just a small, satisfying visual signal that your focused effort is quietly adding up, one flower at a time.

Requirements

None. No settings, no accounts, no external services — install and it works immediately.

Known Limitations

• Growth progress and your garden are stored locally per machine (via VS Code's global storage) and are not synced across devices or installs.

Release Notes

0.0.1

Initial release: status bar growth tracking, six growth stages, persistent garden view, and replant command.