Watchers

A watcher is Numa's patience made useful. You point it at something — a number on a page, a window, a state of the world — describe the condition you care about, and leave. Numa keeps a low, steady eye on it and, when the condition is met, does the thing you taught it to do.

It checks on a held-aside space so the watching never interrupts you. When the moment comes, it asks before it acts unless you have told it not to: take action now, or schedule it for later. Watching is the part of an assistant that feels least like software and most like care — provided it knows when not to.

What a watcher can hold

• A condition you describe in plain language, checked at an interval you choose.
• One target or several, checked in sequence.
• A recorded task to run when the condition is finally met.