potato-timer

Simple program for work/break alternating timing.

In europe, using the italian word for tomato (pomodoro) to name this project would be violating a copyright. Feel free to call this timer whatever you want in your own personal home. We'll call it potato timer here for the sake of avoiding italian prison.

Install

(requires nodejs to be installed on your system)

npm i -g potato-timer

Basic usage:

start server

# start the server (you probably want to put this in your xinitrc, 
# i3 config, or make a systemd --user unit)

(potato-timer-server &)

commands (once server is running)

potato-timer-cli start-timer
potato-timer-cli get-display
potato-timer-cli toggle-timer
potato-timer-cli stop-timer

Polybar config

This is how the potato timer is meant to be experienced - as a vivid first-person multimedia interactive experiences:

[module/potatotimer]
type = custom/script

; click actions
click-left = potato-timer-cli start-timer
click-middle = potato-timer-cli toggle-timer
click-right = potato-timer-cli stop-timer

; rewrite and style the component
; idle state -> [ START FOCUS ]
; FOCUS state -> timer only (with red background)
; BREAK* state -> timer only (with green background)
exec = potato-timer-cli get-display 2>/dev/null | sed 's/idle$/[ START FOCUS ]/' | sed -r 's/FOCUS: (.+)/%{B#800}        \1        /' | sed -r 's/(.*BREAK.+)/%{B#080}        \1        /'

; evaluate 10 times a second to waste your CPU
interval = 0.1

; red underline
format-underline = #800

; you should have a line in your config: `font-4 = ... (whatever font you like)`
format-font = 4