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Re: Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

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Post by fmavituna » Wed, Apr 03, 2013, 7:28 AM UTC

eitland wrote: post #39

Cool. A kind of similar app that I used when I used Mac: http://www.grandtotal.biz/Alarms/ One of the few things I miss on Linux and one of many I miss on Windows. (Please let me know if you know about replacements.)

It's not as functional as these but couple of years ago I quickly coded a timer for Windows - https://code.google.com/p/fst/ - "Freakin' Simple Timer for Pomodoro Technique"

You quickly enter time such as "30m" and it'll ping you when time is up, you can optionally enter a reminder text as well.

Re: Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

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Post by huhtenberg » Wed, Apr 03, 2013, 7:58 AM UTC

Consider adding a screenshot of the menu bar acting like a progress bar to the website. It's the most interesting visual and it's missing.

Re: Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 03, 2013, 8:19 AM UTC

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Re: Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

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Post by morphar » Wed, Apr 03, 2013, 8:20 AM UTC

I don't need this at the moment, but I think it is a very nice idea! At some point in the near future, I will probably find a use and buy it ;)

+1 for adding a screenshot on the website.

Re: Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

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Post by trumbitta2 » Wed, Apr 03, 2013, 8:52 AM UTC

There's something strange going on with your website...

I expected to scroll a bit to read more about the App and see more screenshots, but as you know that wasn't possible.

Re: Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

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Post by dmak » Wed, Apr 03, 2013, 8:52 AM UTC

Oh wow! I loved DragonDrop FYI! This is great!

Re: Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

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Post by jops » Wed, Apr 03, 2013, 9:01 AM UTC

Excellent! Thank you for making this. Visual timer's are so much more useful than numeric ones.

A suggestion: Could you add an option (if possible) to have the narrow line on the main menu bar like you have on the full screen instead of the full overlay. It would be lass distracting I think.

Also, I'm using it to get a feel for my full working day so (the current maximum of) 8 hours is bare minimum. Just thought you might be interested in that 'use case'.

Re: Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

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Post by workbench » Wed, Apr 03, 2013, 9:27 AM UTC

Only just realised what it actually does after looking at the screenshot closely.

Very clever indeed, you definitely need to get an animation of it in action or something on there because I visited the site earlier from your Reddit post and I thought it just put a little clock timer in the menu bar.

Re: Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

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Post by josscrowcroft » Wed, Apr 03, 2013, 10:06 AM UTC

jops wrote: post #47

Excellent! Thank you for making this. Visual timer's are so much more useful than numeric ones. A suggestion: Could you add an option (if possible) to have the narrow line on the main menu bar like you have on the full screen instead of the full overlay. It would be lass distracting I think. Also, I'm using it to get a feel for my full working day so (the current maximum of) 8 hours is bare minimum. Just thought you…

Sorry – "Visual timers", no apostrophe needed. Otherwise it's "Visual timer is are..." :o)

Re: Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)

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Post by jgeerts » Wed, Apr 03, 2013, 1:24 PM UTC

huhtenberg wrote: post #42

Consider adding a screenshot of the menu bar acting like a progress bar to the website. It's the most interesting visual and it's missing.

Yes, I had to read the description on HN to actually understand what it does so this is a good suggestion.