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An App Addict's Advice on: Pomodoro Technique
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Timers and Tomatoes

An App Addict's Advice on: Pomodoro Technique

There are about 1001 different pomodoro/timer apps out there and they as a whole just plain suck. Bad UI is rife.

Here are a few that don't suck as much:

Vitamin-R, the 800 lbs gorilla of Timers. This app could be my favorite if not for all the extra bells and whistles that get in the way of what could be some great UI. Nonetheless, Vitamin-R is a very capable timer with (oddly) Rich-Text logs.

Timebar, very simple, unobtrusive app that turns your menubar into a colored timer.

Timer (Fork of the Original Pomodoro), very recent find for me. I'm glad to see someone has taken over the development of this open source app. It is probably the best Pomodoro Timer out there and it's open source. Unfortunately it has languished in no-commit land and has quickly become out of sync with the latest X-Code dev tools. Timer app seems to fix that.

Tomighty, a simple cross-platform pomodoro timer. No frills here just a clean, simple UI.

Lastly, get one of these physical timers and thank me.

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