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Comment by alfonsodev | Hacker News Reader

I've created a Mac OS app that shows a progress bar 5 pixels tall and 100% the with of the screen when complete, it's always on top of any window.

It's a menu bar app, so you click on the icon and there are a few options.

- You can choose how long will take for the bar to complete, 1, 5, 10... ( I have hardcoded all minutes in intervals of 5 minutes up to 1h :D ).

- Choose a color. - Choose the sound it will make at the end, the options are the standard mac sounds.

Additionally:

- Choose screen to video capture your work.

The idea is to have a pomodoro app that helps with time blindness and time perception, having a constant reminder, it's a bit video game like if you can image.

The video capture feature it's a kind of self accountability and documentation. It's also useful to resume work where you left.

This sounds interesting too from a calm technology perspective (at least as far as I understand the concept). I often run into the problem of not realizing when I'm close to being out of time and having a less-intrusive way of quickly seeing when I should be getting close to done would help me prioritize how I'm thinking/working.

@alfonsodev, do you have a link to a repo or something where someone could download this?

Thanks for the comment! there you go, repository[1] and build [2], I'd really appreciate your feedback, and feel free to open issues on the repo in case you have any problem / suggestions.

- [1] https://github.com/indiedevai/flowcus.bar

- [2] https://github.com/indiedevai/flowcus.bar/releases/tag/20220...

This is neat. I like how unobtrusive it is compared to most things like pomodoro timers that have big numbers changing every second.

Is there a way to get the full progress bar to hide (without quitting the app) once I'm done with a timer, but am not yet ready to start another?

I’m glad you like it!

I’ve opened an issue[1] for implementing what you are asking, so you can subscribe to get notified when this is released.

Also I’ve opened the discussions tab in case you have any other ideas or needs.

- [1] https://github.com/indiedevai/flowcus.bar/issues/2

The idea sounds really cool! You should add some screenshots to the repo to give a sense of what it looks like in action :)

thank you! I'ved added screenshots and a brief description.

https://github.com/indiedevai/flowcus.bar/

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