The Pomodoro Timer That Survives You Closing the Tab

Rajat

14 min read6 hours ago

DeepWork is a free focus timer, task manager and calendar for Windows, macOS, Linux and the browser, and it keeps every record on your own disk

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It is 2:47 in the afternoon and you have fourteen tabs open. One of them is a focus timer. You started a session in it an hour ago, then closed it along with the rest, because that is what you do with tabs.

Ninety seconds later you cannot remember whether you were twenty minutes in or forty. The session is gone. So is the intention behind it.

That is not a productivity problem. That is a software problem, and it is the one this article is about.

Why every focus timer I have tried ends up closed

The pattern is always the same shape, and I have been through it enough times to recognise it early.

You find a timer. It is beautiful.…