Show HN: Pomoglorbo, a TUI Pomodoro timer for your terminal

65 points by justusw 1 year ago | 15 comments
This started out as a fork of pydoro and turned into a playground for dataclasses and strict mypy type checking. Some of the advanced features are

- it writes the current status into .local/state/pomoglorbo for i3status/xbar - it is very configurable, including cmd hooks to run after a Pomodoro/break finishes or starts

The layout is compact, and it runs well over SSH/Mosh/Tmux.

  • alejoar 1 year ago
    Nice! My only grievance is that for some reason J is up and K is down!
  • localfirst 1 year ago
    couldn't install it because i have python 3.10
    • justusw 1 year ago
      Thanks for your feedback. You are right. I've lowered the minimum version to Python 3.10. If you want to give it another try, the package is on PyPI now.
    • pvdebbe 1 year ago

          sleep 20m ; mpc pause
      I keep it simple.
      • timetraveller26 1 year ago

          #pomodoro.sh
  while true; do
    echo "Time to work, dumbass" | festival --tts
    sleep 25m || rm -rf /
    echo "Have some rest, dumbass" | festival --tts
    sleep 5m
  done
        • atsaloli 1 year ago
          What’s the “rm -rf /“ for?
          • argiopetech 1 year ago
            It adds an incentive not to cancel the pomodoro.
        • argiopetech 1 year ago
          Probably easier to use shell history, but I like a loop.

            while () ; do sleep 20m; mpv bing.mp3; read; done
          • globalnode 1 year ago
            simpler than mine:

              import time
  import argparse

  def main(mins):
    print(f"Starting pomodoro timer: {mins} minutes.")

    for m in range(mins, 0, -1):
        secs = 60
        for s in range(secs, 0, -1):
            print(f"{m-1}:{s-1}    ", end='\r')
            time.sleep(1)

    print("Timer finished - take a break!\a")
    time.sleep(2)
    print("\a")
    time.sleep(2)
    print("\a")
    time.sleep(2)


  if __name__ == "__main__":
      parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Pomodoro Timer.")
    parser.add_argument("mins", type=int, help="minutes to time.")

    args = parser.parse_args()
    main(args.mins)
            • justusw 1 year ago
              Good one! That's pretty much how I started and then ended up with Pomoglorbo instead. I have wanted the timer to integrate with timewarrior, and automatically time what I am working and also keep track of my breaks. Another issue is that when your computer sleeps, you'd want to keep counting seconds in the background, so time.sleep(1) will lose accuracy very quickly.
              • jbaber 1 year ago
                You can use time.sleep in a loop to tick of seconds, but actually check the diff between now and start time to know how much time has passed.
              • pankajdoharey 1 year ago
                Mine uses Bash:

                https://github.com/metacritical/pomodorino

              • meribold 1 year ago
                Mine has an ASCII cow to keep you motivated and accountable: https://github.com/meribold/muccadoro.
                • localfirst 1 year ago
                  just tried to run it and it says i dont have cowsay command which is just an output of a text based cow with a cartoon bubble

                  So far on my M1:

                  1. I tried to install Pomoglorbo, fails due to python requirement

                  2. Scrolling down I find muccadoro, fails due to dependency

                  3. 10 minutes in im feeling the impact and inefficient

                  4. Should've just kept moving

                • 1 year ago