Add option to use app as a simple pomodoro timer

[sbstn87]

Hi,

Can you add an option to use flowkeeper as a simple pomodoro timer, without a need to add specific tasks, etc.?

Just like those two apps do this:

https://github.com/vjousse/pomodorolm

https://github.com/zidoro/pomatez

I would like just to click a big button that starts the pomodoro timer in the focus mode. By default it should be 25 min focus, 5 break, 4 work sessions.

[co-stig]

Hello @sbstn87, interesting suggestion, I'll need to think of how to implement it without making the feature counterintuitive. For now you can work around it by using keyboard shortcuts -- pressing Ins, Enter, and then Ctrl-+ four times takes literally five seconds, and you get exactly what you need. Defaults are as you described -- 25/5/4, and you can change it in Settings, of course.

Overall, Flowkeeper sticks close to the original Pomodoro Technique book by Francesco Cirillo, where the timer itself is just a complement to a sheet of paper. The backlog with tasks is almost more important than the timer. Almost half of the book is about the value of the backlog, and how to use it not only for planning, but also as a powerful tool for the retrospective analysis and continuously improving your technique.

[sbstn87]

Understood.

Still, such a "default" timer is very useful for some ad hoc needs to focus on a current task. Or when one has a recurring/long task to do and wants a pomodoro timer to help him focus for a set period of time - for example when studying or reading a book.

By the way, it would also be useful if there was an option to turn on a "Do not disturb" setting in Windows and KDE/Gnome when the focus mode is enabled.

[co-stig]

By the way, it would also be useful if there was an option to turn on a "Do not disturb" setting in Windows and KDE/Gnome when the focus mode is enabled.

The DnD will be implemented in #163.