Tidy clock app for focusing (OSX)

[Rob Courtney]

I love Merlin's "Focus." idea
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/merlin/1394540/), but don't want to carry
a Walgreen's timer around with my PowerBook.

Enter WatchIt, a tiny shareware app that basically puts a Walgreen's
timer in a floating window on your desktop. It counts down. It counts
up. What could be better?

http://www.verticaleye.net/wi/index.html

[Charles Starrett]

Well, *free* could be better. ;-) As an unrepentant cheapskate, I
looked until I found Chimoo Timer:

http://www.chimoosoft.com/timer.html

It's not as elegant as WatchIt, but it does have a "Mini Window" which
is quite small *and* it responds to Speech Recognition. As strikes
against it, Chimoo has a wonky UI with preferences divided between a
drawer and the "Preferences..." dialog. Because of this, it took me a
while to figure out that the alarm sound selected in Preferences... is
not on my system and that's why the timer did nothing when it got to
zero. So, check those Preferences... and play around with the speech
recog. "Start" and "Reset" work pretty consistently for me, but "Stop"
is harder to get right. For the purposes of Merlin's tip, though,
"Start" and "Reset" are all you need!
Did I mention that it's free? ;-)

[Merlin Mann]

That's a great little app! I love how you can hotrod the settings to
your liking.

[Charles Starrett]

Okay, so I appreciate Merlin's work and all, but frankly I think I've
*wasted* more time than I've saved since I discovered his blog &
associated iLocales. Anyhoo, here's a very cute dock timer which has a
cool semi-opaque window for the countdown:

http://homepage.mac.com/tfinley/LeakyPuppy/fob.html

I found that the most convenient way to use it is to set the "Temporary
Timer..." (under the Timers menu) to 8 minutes, and then when the timer
expires, just hit cmd-T to recall the Temporary Timer. For some reason
I can't get cmd-L to work to recall the last timer...

Oh yeah, and this one's free, too. ;-)

Finally, not really apropos of Merlin's tip is Fob (as in watch fob I
assume):

http://homepage.mac.com/tfinley/LeakyPuppy/fob.html

This one is a lot more complicated, but for a stay-at-home Dad, the
ability to have multiple countdown timers all going at once is making
me drool. [Eeew] It has a fun, if gratuitous, UI widget so you can
drag the hands of a clock to set the countdown times.

And yes, it's free too.

But don't forget, I *did* pay for Tinderbox, so I'm not a completely
tight-fisted! ;-)

[Charles Starrett]

By the way Merlin, I was being facetious, but I forgot my usual ;-).
Okay, I've talked to myself enough now. Bye, self.

[TylerWeir]

EggTimer. It's free, source is available and it's not ugly.
http://homepage.mac.com/estebanuribe/software/eggtimer.html

[davidmenges]

What I'm looking for is a "chess clock", where, if I am working on ~6
things at once, I can easily switch from project to project and record
how much time I've spent on each. Something like:

Unix security :37
Look 3 1:21
study Perl :16 <-- currently
user support 3:49

(the above is hours:minutes). So, if a user requests something (I'm in
at IS/IT department) I'd click on "user support" above and it would
start adding time to the existing 3:49.

[Edward Vielmetti]

sounds like you really want a "chess clock" for four-handed Aldeberan
chess. Ed

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[Edward Vielmetti]

sounds like you really want a "chess clock" for four-handed Aldeberan
chess. Ed


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:35:03 -0800, davidmenges <david....@uchsc.edu> wrote:
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[Jeff Youngstrom]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:35:03 -0800, davidmenges <david....@uchsc.edu> wrote:

> What I'm looking for is a "chess clock", where, if I am working on ~6
> things at once, I can easily switch from project to project and record
> how much time I've spent on each.

There is a unix X application I used to use called "titrax" that does
exactly this (http://www.alvestrand.no/~hta/titrax/). Someone wrote a
version for the Palm
(http://www.freewarepalm.com/business/titrax.shtml). It looks like
someone started a Gnome version and started but didn't finish porting
it to OSX (http://gttr.sourceforge.net/).

There's a http://www.titrax.com/, but I can't get there at the moment
to see if there's anything useful.

Not an answer, just more questions, really.
jeffy
--
Jeff Youngstrom - je...@tomecat.com
http://tomecat.com/madtimes/

[bongoman]

And of course there's Hog Bay Timer:
<http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/hog_bay_timer.php>