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dziemborowicz / hourglass

The simple countdown timer for Windows.
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Add combined timers option for loop timer #118

Open alnajar opened 8 years ago

alnajar commented 8 years ago

Won't it be nice to have a 10 min break after a 50 min session without your interference!

dziemborowicz commented 8 years ago

Do you mean something along the lines of being able to start a timer by typing "50 minutes, 10 minutes" and have it time 50 minutes, 10 minutes, 50 minutes, 10 minutes, ... until you hit stop (if loop timer is enabled)? Something like the Pomodoro Technique?

alnajar commented 8 years ago

Yeah, exactly!!

prat0088 commented 8 years ago

I had the exact same idea no more than 10 minutes ago before visiting this project. I wanted to use Hourglass for time-boxing and pomodoroish things, too.

It would be useful to have an option to queue the next timer instead of automatically start it. Especially if you're using it for work/break cycles, you might be in the zone and not want to start your break for another 5 minutes until you finish a task. Maybe a special syntax?

Auto-start:

50 min --> 10 min

Queues up 10 min after 50 min is done, but requires the user to click "start" before the 10 min begins. 

50 min -/-> 10 min