Show HN: I made a pomodoro technique timer

I dig the site. I have heard before that Pomodoro is a trademark that's enforced, but I'm not a lawyer and don't understand what that really means. [0] [1]

[0]https://medium.com/@vojto/you-cant-name-a-trademark-in-app-s...

[1]https://twitter.com/cirillof/status/1228322230251270146

For those who don’t know what pomodoro technique is, It is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. In this method work is divided in time intervals of 25 min and each pomodoro interval is followed by a short break of 5 min. After 4 - 5 pomodoro sittings we take a long break of 15 minutes.

The ui of pomotimer is very simple and minimal. (the entire screen is covered by big timer!) I personally use kanban board for my tasks, therefore I thought it would be awesome to add a kanban board inside pomotimer.

The website does not have any backend, everything is done on frontend. We have used tailwindcss for styling and Next.js as a frontend framework.

Any feedback is appreciated, thanks.

Name clash -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19358798

All features except Kanban & cosmetics, and additional features are there in https://tomato-timer.com/

Additional feature requested - Breaks can immediately start with guided meditation tracks and steep up to tough sets like Theravada and Vipassana.

Explanation - Distraction for me in work is because of of two processes - Excusing yourself - " I will come back in just a minute" and undirected addiction like FB/Insta walls (more so, the third stage - Preoccupation and Anticipation).

The third one is built momentum over 25 minutes. Added to that our speeds become more volatile at the start and tapers at the end, against the constant flow of time. Managers conflate completing the work with completing faster. So, in the break chimes, implementing traffic signals is bad, but a railroad-switch is way better(but...still bad). The best is something that can personify time to coach you to modulate your efforts in tandem with the flow of consistency i.e. time.

Also, games pin down our attention because of tasks with both necessary effort and necessary punishments. Rewards to be necessary, should be compensatory to punishments, not efforts.

So yeah, something like meditation, mindful mastication of snacks, watching standup or interview clips, slow paced Habitica or Mario, etc., all within 5 minutes.

There also needs some cross pollination of ideas between personal finance apps like You Need A Budget, Opportunity cost among the livelyhoods of the poor, and investing in startups.

I lost the GitLab link that does some of that.

It would be useful if it would maintain the state in local storage so tasks and timer survive tab closures.

You know what would be lovely? If you could have this work in parallel so that you could set up a blocker, e.g. block HN. My biggest problem is that I will just 'have' to check the news, stocks, etc. and lose focus. Very nice though!

Is there a story to support background tabs or minimized browser window. For aggressively power saving browsers that sleep inactive tabs

Looks cute.