🧠 DevPulse - Enhanced Terminal Focus Tracker

A powerful, terminal-based focus timer with multiple notification methods to ensure you never miss when your session completes!

✨ Features

🔥 Core Functionality

• Focus sessions - Pomodoro-style focused work periods
• Break timers - Reminder for rest periods
• Session logging - Track your daily and weekly progress
• Beautiful terminal UI - Colorful, animated spinner with real-time countdown

🚨 Enhanced Notifications (NEW!)

When your timer completes, DevPulse uses multiple notification methods for maximum impact:

1. 🔊 System Audio Alerts

   • Multiple sound methods (PulseAudio, ALSA, SoX, speaker-test)
   • Synthetic beep sounds as fallback
   • Optional voice announcements (espeak/festival)

2. 🖥️ Visual Notifications

   • Colorful terminal flash alerts
   • Desktop notifications (node-notifier)
   • Full-screen browser popup with animations

3. 📱 Browser Alarm Page

   • Animated gradient background
   • Confetti effects
   • Multiple audio sources
   • Auto-closing popup

4. ⚡ Terminal Features

   • Multiple terminal bells
   • Vibrant colored alerts
   • ASCII celebration messages

🚀 Installation

Global Installation (Recommended)

Install from npm/Bun registry:

# Using Bun (recommended)
bun add -g devpulse

# Or using npm
npm install -g devpulse

Install from source:

git clone <repository-url>
cd devpulse
bun install
bun link

Local Development

git clone <repository-url>
cd devpulse
bun install

📖 Usage

Global Commands (After Installation)

# Quick test (1 minute)
devpulse focus 1

# Standard sessions
devpulse focus 25      # 25-minute Pomodoro
devpulse focus 45      # 45-minute extended focus
devpulse break 5       # 5-minute break

# Check your progress
devpulse log           # Today's sessions
devpulse report        # Weekly summary

# Get help
devpulse --help
devpulse --version

Local Development Commands

# Start a 25-minute focus session
bun run src/index.ts focus

# Start a custom focus session (e.g., 45 minutes)
bun run src/index.ts focus 45

# Start a 5-minute break
bun run src/index.ts break 5

# View today's sessions
bun run src/index.ts log

# Weekly summary
bun run src/index.ts report

Testing Notifications

# Test all notification methods
bun run test-notifications.ts

# Test just the sound alerts
bun run test-sound

# Quick timer test (6 seconds)
bun run test-timer

🛠️ Requirements

• Bun runtime (v1.2.14+)
• Linux desktop environment (for full notification support)
• Audio system (PulseAudio/ALSA recommended)
• Web browser (for enhanced alarm popup)

📁 Project Structure

devpulse/
├── src/index.ts              # Main application
├── alerts/
│   ├── alarm.html            # Enhanced browser notification
│   └── play-sound.sh         # Multi-method sound script
├── data/logs.json            # Session history
└── test-notifications.ts    # Notification test suite

🎨 Notification Customization

The notification system is designed to work across different Linux environments:

• Desktop environments: Full visual + audio notifications
• Server/headless: Terminal + audio notifications
• Minimal systems: Terminal bells + text alerts

🔧 Troubleshooting

No sound?

• Check audio system: speaker-test -t sine -f 800 -l 1
• Install audio tools: sudo apt install alsa-utils pulseaudio-utils sox

No desktop notifications?

• Install notification daemon: sudo apt install notification-daemon

Browser popup not opening?

• Ensure you have a web browser installed
• Check if xdg-open works: xdg-open https://google.com

🎯 ✅ SIMPLE COMMANDS

🚀 Global Commands (After bun add -g devpulse):

# Quick test (1 minute)
devpulse focus 1

# Standard sessions
devpulse focus 25      # 25-minute Pomodoro focus
devpulse focus 45      # 45-minute extended focus
devpulse break 5       # 5-minute break

# Default sessions
devpulse focus         # 25-minute focus (default)
devpulse break         # 25-minute break (default)

# Check progress
devpulse log           # Today's sessions
devpulse report        # Weekly summary

# Help & info
devpulse --help
devpulse --version

🚀 Local Development Commands:

# Quick test (1 minute)
bun focus1

# Standard sessions
bun focus25        # 25-minute Pomodoro focus
bun focus45        # 45-minute extended focus
bun break5         # 5-minute break

# Default sessions
bun focus          # 25-minute focus (default)
bun break          # 25-minute break (default)

📊 Check Your Progress:

# Global install
devpulse log       # Today's sessions
devpulse report    # Weekly summary

# Local development
bun devlog         # Today's sessions
bun devreport      # Weekly summary

🧪 Quick Testing:

# Global install
devpulse focus 0.1     # 6-second test

# Local development
bun test           # Test all notifications
bun test-sound     # Test sound alerts only

📱 What You Get When Timer Completes:

• 🎨 Colorful terminal alerts
• 🔔 8 terminal bells (extra loud!)
• 🔊 System beep sound (1000Hz tone)
• 📱 Desktop notification (if available)
• 🌐 Browser alarm popup (if display available)
• ✨ Celebration messages

🎯 Quick Start:

# Install globally first
bun add -g devpulse

# Try this first to test all notifications:
devpulse focus 1

💡 Alternative Commands:

# If you prefer longer commands or local development:
bun run src/index.ts focus 1       # 1-minute test
bun run src/index.ts focus 25      # 25-minute focus
bun run src/index.ts break 5       # 5-minute break
bun run src/index.ts log           # Today's sessions
bun run src/index.ts report        # Weekly summary

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