Pomodoro
A focus and break timer with an audible cue at each phase change.
What it does
Counts down a work phase, then a break phase, then back again. Start and pause with the button; reset returns to a fresh work phase. A progress bar shows how far through the current phase you are.
When a phase hits zero the timer flips automatically and keeps running; you don’t have to come back and restart it.
Work and break lengths are set in minutes, clamped to 1–180.
The alarm
The phase change plays a sound, and the cue describes the phase you are entering: it ascends into focus and descends into a break, so you know which one started without looking.
Twelve tones are available, listed from gentle to insistent: chime, marimba, crystal, pluck, droplet, birdsong, zen, bell, gong, arcade, digital, buzzer. All of them are level-matched to one peak, so choosing between them is about character rather than loudness and nothing clips at full volume. Volume runs 0–100 and the row hides itself when the sound is set to off.
The alarm ships on. A focus timer you have to keep watching is the problem the widget exists to solve.
Changing either setting previews the resulting cue.
Where the data comes from
Nothing leaves your machine. Durations are stored in the widget’s settings; the running state is not persisted, so a reload returns to a fresh work phase.
Limits
- Run state is per window. The same widget shown on two monitors will not echo its alarm, but it also means only the running instance chimes.
- There is no long-break-every-fourth-cycle rule, and no history of completed sessions.
- Nothing sounds on start, pause or reset, only on a phase flip.