A simple yet, satisfyingly useful product is called the ECO Button. It doesn’t do much really. You press it and it puts your computer to sleep. You can do that yourself, by choosing sleep from the lower left of your Windows screen. Where this product improves on that is two-fold. One, it is a large green button that sits on your desk and so putting your computer to sleep can be done with barely a thought, as you propel yourself from your computer, for the phone, bathroom, or the call of non-digital life. The second thing is that the large green button glows with a slowly pulsing light that can be slightly annoying but more to the point, makes it hard to forget.
One nice little trick is that, once the computer is off (asleep, hibernating, or fully off), you can press the button one more time and the light will go off until the computer starts up again (which, by the way, is NOT by pressing the ECO button again, but rather by the traditional method of hitting any key or moving the mouse.
The original is from England, but there are copycats available, too. Both can be found on Amazon or on Ebay.
Here is the website of the original producer (they deserve the credit!)
https://www.ecobutton.com/index.php/software-download
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