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Pomodoro Timer

A Pomodoro Timer is a timer that allows for following the Pomodoro Technique, which is 25 minutes of focus followed by 5 minutes of rest (or really, unfocused thinking, day dreaming, type activities). This allows the brain-mortar to dry when you are building new neurological connections.

My Pomodoro App

Built in AngularJS, it provides the basic timer for 25 min work and 5 min relaxation, plus every fourth round the rest period extends to 30 minutes. It also connects to Firebase for tracking activities.

Roadmap

There are a number of things I hope to continue to add.

1. Giant rotating tomato - this proved a time suck because I need to photograph a rotating tomato - CSS animations and JS animations both do better on a 'axis-on' view (think of looking at a spinning tire hubcap) instead of 'equator' view (think tire tread). I want to show timing hash marks so would need to take a number of pictures of the tread and then animate a transition between pictures, estimating that for 360 degrees and 30 minutes I would need 30 images representing 12 degrees each. Each minute I am transitioning from minute to minute.
2. Login - right now anyone can add a task specific to everyone, which is not really a great outcome. I am running on security by obscurity and blogging about it so that is not all that bright. Ideally I would create a login and signup mechanism so everyone could use their own task list.
3. Task specific tracking - I would want to know how many times per task I am interrupted (have to hit the pause button) and how many task-break cycles I have completed. It would be great to be able to select and existing or create new task when I hit the start button.