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Re: Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities

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This looks great! However, I would love it if you added support for macOS (and iPadOS) as well. Is this such a large request? I will definitely purchase once macOS support is built in.

Thank you for taking the time and posting this. This is not an extremely improbable direction. I will consider it.

Re: Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities

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I need something like this, but haven't been able to find anything. I'm mildly ASD and having time boxed todo items in an easy "this is what you need to do next, tick it off when it's done" way is basically the only thing that works for my brain. Many years ago I used to have a macOS menubar app that let you arrange your tasks on a timeline of the day, it was magnificent.

Thank you for sharing your experience.

I kept OwnTime strictly separate from todos. There are so many great apps for that. I would consider linking priorities into external todo apps, e.g. if it would be possible to deep link into a certain group of todos in the app of your choice. So you could go OwnTime -> priority -> switch to todos associated with that priority.

Re: Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities

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That's a nice side project, however pomodoro timers are a dime a dozen

Thank you. I know, and I didn't need a Pomodoro timer. What Pomodoro doesn't show you and is at the heart of this app: the things you neglect, front and center, not in the shape of todos (and bad feelings) but it the shape of your personal priorities.

Sorry, I don't get it? I am curious though

Re: Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities

#45

I’ve been looking for ages for a good timekeeping/organizing app. This looks really nice. Definitely giving it a try now. I will come back with feedback and suggestions

Thank you for giving it a try! I look forward to your impressions and ideas.

Re: Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities

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Just bought it. Is there a day of week feature or "weekend mode" planned?

Thank you! There is no such feature currently. The way I use it is that I simply ignore it on weekends. What behaviour would you expect from a weekend mode?

For me the same feature set is fine, it's just a different breakdown of time.

On weekdays I have configured 8 hours of work (that I might still subdivide later). On weekends I would like to replace that block with "Chores" and "Nap" :)

Re: Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! There is no such feature currently. The way I use it is that I simply ignore it on weekends. What behaviour would you expect from a weekend mode?

For me the same feature set is fine, it's just a different breakdown of time. On weekdays I have configured 8 hours of work (that I might still subdivide later). On weekends I would like to replace that block with "Chores" and "Nap" :)

Makes sense, thank you for taking the time to describe it. I will consider adding something that covers this need.

Re: Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me the same feature set is fine, it's just a different breakdown of time. On weekdays I have configured 8 hours of work (that I might still subdivide later). On weekends I would like to replace that block with "Chores" and "Nap" :)

Makes sense, thank you for taking the time to describe it. I will consider adding something that covers this need.

I like the way the alarms app lets you specify exactly which days of the week a repeating alarm applies to.
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