Re:Show HN: ADHD-friendly pomodoro web app
by sizzle on Thursday April 06, 2023 @06:27PM
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Absolutely, the ADHD version would be a physical egg timer you manually turn the dial on and can’t lose sight of on your desk. A digital representation would have to float on top of all other apps somehow.
Re:Show HN: ADHD-friendly pomodoro web app
by shaunsingh0207 on Thursday April 06, 2023 @06:53PM
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now I'd spend all my time turning the dial and overengineering its replacement :(
Re:Show HN: ADHD-friendly pomodoro web app
by thedrexster on Thursday April 06, 2023 @10:44PM
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me too, brother! <3
Re:Show HN: ADHD-friendly pomodoro web app
by robotresearcher on Friday April 07, 2023 @12:26AM
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That’s the original version. Pomodoro is named after a popular physical kitchen timer in the shape of a tomato (‘Pomodoro’ is Italian for ‘tomato’).
Re:Show HN: ADHD-friendly pomodoro web app
by loloquwowndueo on Thursday April 06, 2023 @09:55PM
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> 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 :)
There is a problem with hoarding tabs and multiple windows of a browser. If you have a window with 100 open tabs, and then a second window with 3 open tabs, and then you close the 100-tab window first and 3-tab window second, then browser will silently close all 100 and save only 3 tabs you have closed the last.
It is easy issue to avoid until that one time you accidentally forget about it. So I try to avoid multiple windows of Firefox.
Also if we are talking about a separate icon on the taskbar, then why not make it a dedicated app with proper settings, notifications and stuff, which you can't forget or disable?
Re:Show HN: ADHD-friendly pomodoro web app
by chrisvalleybay on Friday April 07, 2023 @02:20AM
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Raycast has a pretty good pomodoro timer. You can activate it directly from Raycast and it will show the timer in the menu bar.
If you own a Mac, https://github.com/glyph/Pomodouroboros/ shows the timer on your whole screen and runs it all the time.
There are also no notifications or sounds in your website (I may have nuked all browser notifications at some point, to combat asshole webdesign, and now I have no idea if that's a default setting).
The 100% expected scenario of how ADHD person would use your timer is open it, set up a timer, check it periodically if it has finished or not, happily get to first break, then setup second work period, forget about timer until 3 days later, and find it when cleaning up open tab. Close it forever. Source - this would be a fifth or so exact same pomodoro "app"-website I've tried and abandoned.