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Re: Show HN: ADHD-friendly Pomodoro web app

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Post by aaron695 » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 12:05 AM UTC

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Re: Show HN: ADHD-friendly Pomodoro web app

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Post by coolspot » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 12:12 AM UTC

I found a work/rest timer like yours work really well for me. I use WorkRave which is free, available on all OSes and even locks keyboard for you after work timer is complete (with an option to postpone).

[1] - https://workrave.org/download/

Re: Show HN: ADHD-friendly Pomodoro web app

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Post by shironononon » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 12:31 AM UTC

dark mode: [x] no ad banner: [x] works as intended: [x]

Well done, sir.

Re: Show HN: ADHD-friendly Pomodoro web app

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Post by 650REDHAIR » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 12:46 AM UTC

I have nothing to add yet except that domain name is incredible and makes me feel seen.

Re: Show HN: ADHD-friendly Pomodoro web app

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Post by globalnode » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 1:03 AM UTC

awesome! needed this about 6 mths ago and had to write a bodgy python script. this is app is a lot nicer.

Re: Show HN: ADHD-friendly Pomodoro web app

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Post by globalnode » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 1:09 AM UTC

jstx1 wrote: post #71

https://pomofocus.io/app is similar (but with satisfying sounds!)

thanks for the link, i like that one.

Re: Show HN: ADHD-friendly Pomodoro web app

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Post by asimjalis » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 1:16 AM UTC

adr1an wrote: post #47

maybe tracking time is overrated

I think you might be onto something.

Re: Show HN: ADHD-friendly Pomodoro web app

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 1:29 AM UTC

jabroni_salad wrote: post #15

tra3 wrote: post #7

Nicely 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…

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Re: Show HN: ADHD-friendly Pomodoro web app

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Post by loloquwowndueo » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 1:55 AM UTC

Yizahi wrote: post #77

No offense author, but what is specifically ADHD related in this timer? Actually I'd argue that it is ADHD unfriendly because it is in the web browser. So now I need to open a browser and hunt down one tab among hundreds, because as a ADHD person I tend to hoard them to process later and of course never do it. There are also no notifications or sounds in your website (I may have nuked all browser notifications at som…

> So now I need to open a browser and hunt down one tab among hundreds

You can convert the tab into a window and keep it visible :)

Re: Show HN: ADHD-friendly Pomodoro web app

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Post by cdogl » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 2:04 AM UTC

k__ wrote: post #67

lelanthran wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It's designed to be somewhere in view of the person using it. Then it really shouldn't be a browser app, it needs to be a local app that runs in the taskbar. I've made two of these in the past: V1, browser based: the browser simply wasn't viable because there's no taskbar timer. V2, Bash+zenity script to run locally, pops up a uncloseable, uncoverable and omnipresent (across all workspaces) window, with a progress…

Hu? As far as I know, web apps can run in the background, when the browser is closed and use native notifications.

Not according to “ps” on my Linux box after killing chrome and Firefox.