A nicely designed Pomodoro app for the Mac menu bar: TomatoBar (GitHub). It puts a little black and white icon in the menu bar and shows the time counting down to its right. An especially nice feature is that the time doesn’t shift around slightly as the digits change — thanks to a monospaced font.
The one thing missing: a sound when a break ends. It’d be nice to close one’s eyes or step away from the desk and hear that the five minutes are gone, without having to check the menu bar. Having to watch the time is kinda at odds with the idea of taking a break, no?
February 21: A comment cleared things up for me: turning on the wind-up noise in Preferences will signal the end of the break. I was thinking only about dings.
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Monday, February 20, 2023
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hi Michael
if you set the wind up noise to 'on' in the preferences, you'll hear that when your break is over and you have to start work again 😅
Aha! I was thinking only about dings. Thanks.
And thinking of the wind-up only as what starts the app. Thanks again.
always glad to be of service! a ding would be better though — but a choice of noises would be better still. i find the ding a little jarring when i am in the middle of a train of thought or the writing of a sentence.
johannes
I especially like the new damped sounds of macOS and iOS — less jarring, and more discreet in public places.
i dont know about them but maybe this is on ventura? i am still on monterey 😢
It must be Ventura then.
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