Comment by alfonsodev
2 years ago
I've created a Mac OS app that shows a progress bar 5 pixels tall and 100% the with of the screen when complete, it's always on top of any window.
It's a menu bar app, so you click on the icon and there are a few options.
- You can choose how long will take for the bar to complete, 1, 5, 10... ( I have hardcoded all minutes in intervals of 5 minutes up to 1h :D ).
- Choose a color. - Choose the sound it will make at the end, the options are the standard mac sounds.
Additionally:
- Choose screen to video capture your work.
The idea is to have a pomodoro app that helps with time blindness and time perception, having a constant reminder, it's a bit video game like if you can image.
The video capture feature it's a kind of self accountability and documentation. It's also useful to resume work where you left.
This sounds interesting too from a calm technology perspective (at least as far as I understand the concept). I often run into the problem of not realizing when I'm close to being out of time and having a less-intrusive way of quickly seeing when I should be getting close to done would help me prioritize how I'm thinking/working.
@alfonsodev, do you have a link to a repo or something where someone could download this?
Thanks for the comment! there you go, repository[1] and build [2], I'd really appreciate your feedback, and feel free to open issues on the repo in case you have any problem / suggestions.
- [1] https://github.com/indiedevai/flowcus.bar
- [2] https://github.com/indiedevai/flowcus.bar/releases/tag/20220...
This is neat. I like how unobtrusive it is compared to most things like pomodoro timers that have big numbers changing every second.
Is there a way to get the full progress bar to hide (without quitting the app) once I'm done with a timer, but am not yet ready to start another?
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The idea sounds really cool! You should add some screenshots to the repo to give a sense of what it looks like in action :)
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