Started as a timer to track my freelance coding hours and stay focused. It’s local-only, zero-login, minimalist. Not monetizing it (yet), just seeing if others find it helpful. Thoughts welcome.
I love it. I made something for weekly planning a long time ago:
https://obligabucket.netlify.app/ - same thing, local-only, and no monetization. Wasn't even sure it still worked. Feels like the task list aspect of obligabucket might fit neatly into the task list I'd set up over in flow timer when it's time to switch into execution mode vs planning mode.
For a while my time management just kinda took care of itself, but there are more distractions and competing priorities in life/work now so I might pay more attention again./
I would like to take this opportunity to share a little side project of mine called 't0'. It's an IRC-based timer! You can try it out by joining the #bitwise channel on Libera (https://web.libera.chat/#bitwise). If you're unfamiliar with IRC, there's a quick guide at https://bitwise.codeberg.page/ that shows how to join the channel and start using the timer.
What I find most interesting isn't the timer itself, but how the community uses it. Following the channel activity helps me discover plenty of new and interesting reading and learning material, as members announce what they're reading/writing while triggering the timer.
Clean and straightforward! If I could offer one suggestion: maybe not make the post sharing stuff the central item in the page. I understand that it's nice to simply share the tool instantly but it goes against the "minimalist" nature of the tool.
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I made it for time-boxing, so setting myself a time limit on multiple tasks to not get distracted and get things done.
I just made it to have a simple tool, so of course no monetization, local-only and minimal as well.
For a while my time management just kinda took care of itself, but there are more distractions and competing priorities in life/work now so I might pay more attention again./
I would like to take this opportunity to share a little side project of mine called 't0'. It's an IRC-based timer! You can try it out by joining the #bitwise channel on Libera (https://web.libera.chat/#bitwise). If you're unfamiliar with IRC, there's a quick guide at https://bitwise.codeberg.page/ that shows how to join the channel and start using the timer.
More details on the project are here: https://github.com/susam/tzero
What I find most interesting isn't the timer itself, but how the community uses it. Following the channel activity helps me discover plenty of new and interesting reading and learning material, as members announce what they're reading/writing while triggering the timer.
What I'd like to see in a tool like this:
- loose / fuzzy autocomplete for tasks - shortcuts
PS. I made a tool for... sitting and doing nothing at all; people on HN seemed to like it:
https://sit.sonnet.io
https://sonnet.io/posts/sit/
I wouldn't mind using something like this but it needs to live in the system tray/taskbar/dock/etc.
Not in a tab in the web browser.