mindoverflow

The time management app built with GTK and libadwaita, designed with stack memory and pomodoro in mind.

What is the goal of this project?

After using pomodoro technique for quite a long time, I notices that I always do one thing before switching tasks in the next work interval (a.k.a the pomo): I copy links to the websites of all of the browser tabs I have open, and paste them into a text file, so that I can return right back to the thing I was working on without spending time on remembering all of the stuff I have been doing.

So, I called that the "stack memory management" technique, where the stack meant the note I had for each task. It actually has nothing to do with the stack data structure, but since the name has already stuck, I am going to keep it.

But the problem was, I had to use multiple apps to perform this: timer, browser and a text editor. At the first glance, it might seem like it's not that big of a deal. However, in reality this used to fill my desktop with an overwhelming amount of windows. But if that wasn't enough, a lot of this software didn't work as inteded. A lot of times the pomodoro timers didn't make any sounds, or would incorrectly monitor the time spent on a task.

So this project was born to fix those issues. To make a pomodoro proguctivity timer that is:

• Reliable.
  • No weird sound or notification issues.
  • Simple and well-defined method of calculating the work time.
• Flexible.
  • Pomo/break times can be configued.
  • Pomos/breaks can be skipped.
  • Pomos/breaks can be paused.
• Compatible.
  • All of the configuration files and data should be written in an easy-to-understand format and directly available to the user.
    • To support syncthing for sync.
    • To be able to edit outside of the app.
• Built with stack memory in mind. +