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Show HN: Tomato – Pomodoro Timer
- f_allwein 10y agoMy preferred behaviour for pomodoro timers is: start the break countdown automatically at the end of a pomodoro, but wait for the user to click to start the next pomodoro. Does it do that? For everyone who has not tried the pomodoro technique (25 minutes focused work, 5 minutes everything else): give it a try! I'm constantly surprised at how much I can get done in 25 minutes.
- jastr 10y agoDeveloper here - it doesnt auto-start the break timer. Interesting that you would want to start the break countdown but not the next work timer.
- Veen 10y agoI prefer this too. I'm strict about work intervals but flexible about break intervals. Usually so that I can use the break to chat to my gf, go for a short walk, or make a cup of tea or whatnot without worrying about going over by a couple of minutes and having to reset the timer.
- f_allwein 10y agoYes, that's what I meant. If the break does not start automatically, I tend to forget to trigger it, whereas if the next pomodoro does start automatically, it may catch me in the middle of doing something else.
- gourou 10y agoI thought this was gonna be a post about cooking, I'm still not sure what this is
- liviu- 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
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- LoSboccacc 10y agoPseudoscience based time management
- lexhaynes 10y agoThere's no "science" about it. The pomodoro technique is just a technique, nothing more, to help people manage their time.
- Blaque 10y agoDespite the snark of your answer, I'd be interested to know if you have any examples of science-based time management. It seems that this field is mostly trial-and-error, the techniques either work for you or don't.
- LoSboccacc 10y agoEh it's not like I intended pseudoscience as pejorative, but as in there some evidence in cognitive science that defocusing and refocusing on tasks help efficiency, but as all thing in this field reproducibility and other issues make it a tall order to call it scientific.
- Numberwang 10y agoI like and am at the same time annoyed that it is so simple. One the one hand I have a doze features I'd like to have. On the other I know those are mostly time wastes.
- alexose 10y agoI love it! Doesn't get much more minimal than that. Here's my relatively bloated pomodoro tracker: http://alexose.github.io/pomodoro/ http://alexose.github.io/pomodoro/
- decasteve 10y agoYears ago a Buddhist monk recommended to me to set a bell every 30 minutes as a mindfulness practice. When you hear the bell, look up, bring your consciousness back to your breath for a few breaths, make sure you are aware of your body posture, especially when sitting in front of a computer, and then go back to what you were doing. The pomodoro technique always reminds me of this.
- ptrk 10y agoI made a free macOS app based on this technique: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zentime/id1089216789?mt=12 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zentime/id1089216789?mt=12
- bkb 10y agoThis would be a killer Apple Watch app.
- ceor4 10y agoAgree, especially with just a gentle vibrating reminder that turned itself off after a second. I've tried a few of these, and the problem they all suffer is obnoxiously intrusive notifications. It's not an alarm clock, if I miss one it's fine.
- ptrk 10y agoAgree, it's more about noticing whether or not you're focused than it is being forced into a workflow.
- KC8ZKF 10y agoDoesn't "Breathe" do this? http://www.macrumors.com/2016/06/13/apple-breathe-app-for-apple-watch/ http://www.macrumors.com/2016/06/13/apple-breathe-app-for-ap...
- hammock 10y agoWho needs an Apple watch? Timex digital watches have been dinging every 60 minutes for decades.
- pedasmith 10y agoI get distracted by shiny things, so I made a low-distraction work timer https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/low-distraction-work-timer/9nblggh5r6z1 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/low-distraction-work... It moves pretty much imperceptibly so that it doesn't distract from the task at hand.
- welanes 10y agoNice. For those who'd like a todo list to go with their Pomodoro* timer, I've created Lanes: https://lanes.io https://lanes.io. It tracks how many pomodoros you complete each day and how long you spent being productive. Plus you can see the aggregate # of poms completed by all users of the app (which I find motivating). *Not strictly a Pomodoro as the timer can be adjusted, but hey that's what the users wanted.
- amasad 10y agoFor a minimal OS X native app check out Pomodoro One. So simple and clean yet had a great impact on my productivity.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 10y agoHas anyone tried shocking themselves? I feel like this pomodoro idea is ripe for creative disruption.
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- gunn 10y agohttp://pavlok.com/ http://pavlok.com/
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 10y agoOh boy.
- h2hn 10y agoI made a pomodoro app for Linux based on taskwarrior. I have been using it for a while with free sync online ... https://github.com/liloman/pomodoroTasks https://github.com/liloman/pomodoroTasks
- otto_ortega 10y agoMy favorite Pomodoro Timer is: http://tomato-timer.com/ http://tomato-timer.com/ This one is lacking some features (I understand it aims to be minimalistic, but it cut flexibility on the process...)
- calebm 10y agoThis is the one I use too.
- macavity23 10y agoI find http://moosti.com http://moosti.com to be the best of the web tomato timers
- criddell 10y agoThis is great. Now good luck resisting the urge to add just one more feature. I really hope you don't because there are other more feature-bloated timers out there. This seems perfect to me.
- criddell 10y agoAfter looking again, I realized uBlock was reporting that it had blocked something and so I took a look and it is Google Analytics. Just out of curiosity, why include that?
- dougblack 10y agoI would imagine the creator would find usage stats interesting.
- jastr 10y agoYup!
- criddell 10y agoThanks for making it. Like I said, I really appreciate how sharply focused the timer page is. If I were to suggest anything, it would be to get rid of the analytics tracking. Is Google telling you anything useful? From my point of view, it consumes resources, doesn't add any functionality, and leaks data about your visitors.
- Briel 10y agoHere's a productivity tricks that works for me: Reason why I stop working on a project is because after a while (or 10 minutes...), it just gets boring. So I toggle between 3-4 similarly important projects a day. The excitement of doing something new when I switch helps me keep working (just on a different project). Yes there is a cost to mentally switching regularly but it's worth it to avoid the much higher cost of watching Youtube instead!
- prawn 10y agoI use Timebar, which is unfortunately no longer available through the Mac App Store. http://lifehacker.com/timebar-turns-your-macs-menubar-into-a-timer-484724310 http://lifehacker.com/timebar-turns-your-macs-menubar-into-a... It turns your entire top menu bar into a countdown bar which you can keep an eye on peripherally as you work.
- asciimo 10y agoI just set a 25 minute time and forgot about it. The gong sound terrified me.
- dcousens 10y agoI just use `notify-send` every 30 minutes... https://github.com/dcousens/dotfiles/blob/master/.xinitstatusbar#L88-L94 https://github.com/dcousens/dotfiles/blob/master/.xinitstatu....
- fomq 10y agoYay. Here's mine: http://xcvfd.com/pomodoro http://xcvfd.com/pomodoro
- jastr 10y agoOP here - interesting to see not only how many developers on HN use the Pomodoro Technique but also how many have built their own app!
- wastedhours 10y agoI built my own for Android (still on the store, but not linking as I need to pull it and fix) - love the Pomodoro technique, and it's quite a nice, simple challenge to build something for. I used it to learn the basics of Java/Android and get something functional into the store within 48 hours. Good intellectual exercise.
- christiangenco 10y agoI made my own timer after trying almost everything else out there. The one I have now is a tomato emoji in my Mac menubar. When I tell it I'm working, it asks what I'm working on (so I can keep it in a logfile and do fun analytics on it later), then plays my work playlist in iTunes and updates a webpage[1] that lets my wife know I'm working for the next 25 minutes. When the time is up, it stops the music and asks how the pom went (also for the logfile). It's absolutely the perfect solution for me. I can't imagine finding an app that does these things that someone else had built. The ROI on building tools for myself that help my workflow has been extremely positive. 1. http://gen.co/ischristianworking/ http://gen.co/ischristianworking/
- tianshuo 10y agoMy favorite timer is pomotodo.com which merges a todo list with a pomodoro timer, and gives stats on completion rates.
- kinleyd 10y agoI use Pymodoro in a dzen bar in a minimalist tiling windows manager. Really nice.
- conception 10y agoPlug for https://complice.co/ https://complice.co/ for group pomodoro's. There's a hacker news channel. Pretty interesting concept, especially for mobile workers who still want to "chat" with someone.
- wodenokoto 10y agoIs there an article outlining the idea behind these tomato timers, similarly to GTD or is it in reality just a simple system that I am trying to read too much into?
- Walkman 10y agohttp://pomodorotechnique.com/ http://pomodorotechnique.com/
- mysterypie 10y agoAnyone else getting a black screen that says, "Sorry -- Because of its privacy settings, this video cannot be played here"? I can't tell what it's complaining about. I'm allowing tracking, DRM, cookies, everything I can think of. Oddly enough, I was able to easily download the video using youtube-dl, a general-purpose command-line video downloader for Unix/Linux/Windows/Mac[1]. The video was well done and informative, but I still don't understand why it doesn't play on their web page. [1] https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl
- Gnarl 10y agoCan it send email?
- Derbasti 10y agoAh, memories. I did one of those, too, a few years ago: http://pomodoro-timer.org/ http://pomodoro-timer.org/ It even has an animated tomato, uses localstorage to save your work record, and makes ding in the end!
- esseti 10y agoI use this http://martakostova.github.io/timer/ http://martakostova.github.io/timer/ (compiled by myself) . It's good becuase it can run script, so i can sete myself to a DND status on slack when the pomodoro is running and turn back online after that. E.g.f for start you can use a script like this do shell script "curl 'https://slack.com/api/dnd.setSnooze?token=<yourtoken>&num_minutes=$duration'" https://slack.com/api/dnd.setSnooze?token=<yourtoken>&num_mi...
- gianc 10y agoHi, nice one! Just a suggestion, check the behaviour of the "do_it" div. If I click on it and then click outside without writing anything, the div will collapse leaving a blank area, and it will not be possible (or it will be very hard) to open it again. I did one too before summer. Here's mine http://codepen.io/gianc/full/oLdGAv http://codepen.io/gianc/full/oLdGAv I'm still learning, any criticism and/or advice is appreciated.
- andyjohnson0 10y agoNice work! A good, minimalist solution. ---- My personal favourite is Strict Workflow [1], which is a Chrome extension. It has the added benefit of preventing idle website browsing during a work phase. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/strict-workflow/cgmnfnmlficgeijcalkgnnkigkefkbhd https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/strict-workflow/cg...
- gerbal 10y agoI really dig the aesthetic and simplicity of http://luckyshot.github.io/twentyfive/ http://luckyshot.github.io/twentyfive/
- sc4les 10y agoI have a simple PS script to use at work (so I don't have to install any extra applications, plus I can customize it easily). It shows the remaining time as well as a desktop notfication: https://github.com/maxlorenz/ps-pomodoro https://github.com/maxlorenz/ps-pomodoro
- Walkman 10y agoWhy is this on front page? It has two buttons and one text input.
- ohadron 10y agoThe 'Flappy Bird' effect.
- Scarblac 10y agoAnother Pomodoro timer that assumes that a Pomodoro is 25 minutes, even though that was only an example that worked for the author.