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Re: Pomodoro Timer

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Post by kibwen »

Someone1234 wrote: post #14

I'll likely get judged for this, but I'm using a paid proprietary Windows Application (w/browser extensions) called "Cold Turkey" (no association, just a customer). It has Pomodoro Timers, but they're enforced, meaning you can blacklist out certain applications or websites during your "work" blocks and allow them during your free time. I'm doing 20/20 during the work-day, with an hour off for lunch. I'll say this abo…

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Re: Pomodoro Timer

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Post by latexr »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #10

I have tried quite a few Pomodoro app and they are all good. Remember, it is OK to find your own time-break cycle and not stick to the standard Pomodoro. I'm more comfortable with a 50-10 cycle (50-min, then 10 for break). I don't care about the Pomodoro count or how many per day. If you are working at home, I found that cheap mechanical kitchen timers are great. These days, I'm experimenting with an oversize hourgla…

> I found that cheap mechanical kitchen timers are great.

That’s the original method[1]:

> Each interval is known as a pomodoro, from the Italian word for tomato, after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer Cirillo used as a university student.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

Re: Pomodoro Timer

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Post by Someone1234 »

kibwen wrote: post #21
Someone1234 wrote: post #14

I'll likely get judged for this, but I'm using a paid proprietary Windows Application (w/browser extensions) called "Cold Turkey" (no association, just a customer). It has Pomodoro Timers, but they're enforced, meaning you can blacklist out certain applications or websites during your "work" blocks and allow them during your free time. I'm doing 20/20 during the work-day, with an hour off for lunch. I'll say this abo…

Note that HN has a small amount of procrastination-blocking built-in. It's the "noprocrast" setting in your user profile. "If you turn it on you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours."

I've used that before, and it is useful. The thing I didn't love is that it makes no distinction between my free time and work time. Meaning on the evenings or weekends, I'd have the same restrictions as my 9-5 Monday-Friday.

Re: Pomodoro Timer

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Post by adrium »

Really nice work!

After trying many different ones, I created my own.

I use it for HIIT and Pomodoro: https://tools.adrium.dev/timer.html

Features: Landscape/portrait layouts, configurable intervals, sound, color, circular progress bar, simple UI, spacebar to start/pause.

It is pure HTML5, one file, and thereby open source.

Re: Pomodoro Timer

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Post by jimmySixDOF »

I am a fan of physical hour glasses and have a little collection from a 3min egg timer up to 1.5hrs to do sprint blocks. Been doing that since before I had heard of Pomodoro outside of Italian food. Call me old school but I like the intersection of Skeuomorphic and Tangible user Interfaces and if there was an hourglass with a Bluetooth link into my App world you can bet I'd jump on it.

Re: Pomodoro Timer

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Post by moneywoes »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #20
Someone1234 wrote: post #14

I'll likely get judged for this, but I'm using a paid proprietary Windows Application (w/browser extensions) called "Cold Turkey" (no association, just a customer). It has Pomodoro Timers, but they're enforced, meaning you can blacklist out certain applications or websites during your "work" blocks and allow them during your free time. I'm doing 20/20 during the work-day, with an hour off for lunch. I'll say this abo…

A similar Mac version of this is HeyFocus - https://heyfocus.com It is paid but it really gets the job done. I don't really use it these days (kinda built up the habit). I remember setting the quotes to just one phrase -- "Get the F*K back to Work" or something like that or was it like "You ought to be Working" (as seen in the ceiling of Kevin Bacon in Hollow Man.

Doesn’t apple have screen time for this purpose?

Re: Pomodoro Timer

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Post by mellosouls »

Someone1234 wrote: post #14

I'll likely get judged for this, but I'm using a paid proprietary Windows Application (w/browser extensions) called "Cold Turkey" (no association, just a customer). It has Pomodoro Timers, but they're enforced, meaning you can blacklist out certain applications or websites during your "work" blocks and allow them during your free time. I'm doing 20/20 during the work-day, with an hour off for lunch. I'll say this abo…

I've used it for a few years, great app!

Will link it instead. :)

https://getcoldturkey.com/

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