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It's quite possible the creator made this for themselves since there's no monetization angle and also has ADHD.
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#42Gonna say, seeing the "worked time" is actually really helpful to put me back on task. "What, I've only done 14 minutes?"
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#43Does this thing run in UTC? I'm in the Europe/Copenhagen timezone (currently UTC+2) and the web app shows a time two hours behind localtime (and my pc is having the correct time from NTP).
Do you use firefox? I think by default it uses UTC to prevent fingerprinting.
The site is showing the correct timezone for me on safari.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
My company's IT bans installing anything outside of their software application management/installation application. All software goes through a laborious approval process. Webapps like this are very useful to me.
> My company's IT bans installing anything outside of their software application management/installation application. I abhor these setups. Luckly every time I've been in them it's been realtively easy to get an exception. I can't think of many situations I'd stay at a company like this unless it was very easy to get necessary software added within 3-5 business days.
In my experience, the IT friction is usually higher the larger the company. Since plenty of people work at large companies, restrictive IT departments is a frequent concern.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you supposed to try and complete things in the pomodoro? I don't even try.
I don't think so. However I do have a list of things I want to do, so I break them into pomodoros and I'm always surprised when I don't get close to finishing my stuff.
Is this because you think it won’t take as long as it does or because you get distracted during the pomodoro?
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#46Does this thing run in UTC? I'm in the Europe/Copenhagen timezone (currently UTC+2) and the web app shows a time two hours behind localtime (and my pc is having the correct time from NTP).
Do you use firefox? I think by default it uses UTC to prevent fingerprinting. The site is showing the correct timezone for me on safari.
Correct, I'm using firefox.
I didn't know about the UTC thing in firefox, usually it will show the correct local time. But now that you mention it, the online booking system for the local vaccination centre shows the time in UTC, too. Recently I actually filed a bug report to their administration because of that.
All other sites I can think of — including https://time.is/ — are showing the correct localtime.
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#47maybe tracking time is overrated
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
> the browser simply wasn't viable because there's no taskbar timer. Chrome supports badges on chrome extensions. E.g. I've built a chrome extension that shows an "On" badge when it's activated in the current tab. Via the same mechanism you could display the number of minutes remaining. Edit: Random article showing this in action: https://dev.to/paulasantamaria/chrome-extensions-adding-a-ba... -- also, no idea if it'…
> Chrome supports badges on chrome extensions. Then it's not a browser app anymore, it's a chrome app. Maybe not even that, it's a chrome app that needs a specific extension as well? I'm using Firefox. Having to install Chome+extensions just for a pomodoro app is extremely unappealing to me.
Nah, you’re reaching too far to neg your interlocutor, been available for mobile for years and even Safari finally shipped it
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#49What makes this ADHD friendly? Also, as you prob know, there are multiple free/FOSS native taskbar based pomodoro apps that really get out the way, what is the advantage of using a browser based on?
It's designed to be somewhere in view of the person using it. People with ADHD (myself included) struggle with time blindness and just starting tasks in general, so this helps with that (I hope) by: a) making the start of your tasks just a simple press of a button b) keeping your progress of time and your deadline right in front of you. It's just another one of pomodoro apps that I made specifically for myself and wa…
I would package this as a local nativefier app and have it running as a dedicated app/window for it to make sense for me.. This as a browser tab would just get lost. Is there source code for this?
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#50Nicely done. Does anyone else get anxiety from watching the timer get close to 0 and not being nearly done with you've set out to do in the pomo?
This is one of the reasons I'm using skedpal. I just make the task longer and it reshuffles all my other tasks to make room. Not just good for adhd, I also have trouble with my boss being way too chatty and blowing up my time boxing. Also since my tasks are on the calendar the 'what am I going to do next' decision paralysis is taken care of, and since they all occupy some amount of linear time they are real objects i…
Thank you for mentioning skedpal. I had never heard of it, and in the last week I've been thinking through the design of a very similar thing... the shininess of which is distracting me from working on the thing I actually want to be working on. Maybe I don't have to build the thing I was thinking about building.