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Some more feedback. I have been using this for about an hour, and it is really good. The things I like about it are that it puts the tasks in sequence, hiding them until the next task is ready to go. That is very useful to me, because it helps keep track of all the myriad things I need to remember during the day.

The time keeping is a little stressful, however. If there were a way to just show minutes, that would be less distracting overall. Maybe that is the purpose of what you are trying to do, but it would be helpful to have a configurable setting.

Although I do not know the technique, I feel like this is what the pomodoro is trying to do.

Again, I will keep using it and give you any more feedback. I hope it gets promoted to the main feed.

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, the visual timer is mostly for people with ADHD, who suffer from time-blindness. I can see your point of it being stressful.

Pomodoro is one part of it. It's more about focusing on current task at hand with something always on your screen to keep you accountable.

If you are down, feel free to join our discord channel: https://discord.gg/GavhgFrt9E

Also, it would be extremely cool to have an at symbol capability, where you can program in things that occur at a specific time during the day. This would prevent me from missing meetings :).

I would use it like:

  Check Email 15
  Review Big Document 1:30 (does it support hh:mm format?)
  Status Meeting 1h @10am (does it support "h" as time?)
  Break 10
  Lunch 30 @12pm

Ahh I see.

So currently it only supports a simple timer like "Email bob 5".

Later, we will build integration with your calendar to give you more control over your workday. At that point, the specific time will be very valuable.

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