IX
A pomodoro timer for macOS
macOS 13 or later

IX

A timer that holds one sentence
of yours, in front of you.
Then it shuts up

There is no window to open and nothing to check on. Glance up if you want the time; otherwise the clock just runs, and the thing you meant to be doing is still there in front of you.

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Focus14:02

Rip the polling loop out of the sync worker.

The card

One line,
before you start.

Before the clock starts, IX asks what you're working on. What you write stays on screen while the time runs — so when you surface from a tangent and think what was I doing, the answer is already there, in your own words. There is only room for one sentence, which is the point. Put it wherever it's least in the way, or close it when you'd rather have the space.

What are you working on?

Rip the polling loop out of the sync worker
⏎ start · ⇧⏎ new line · esc cancel

The cycle

Orthodox pomodoro, unchanged.

Focus 25 Break 5 25 5 25 5 25 Long 15

Two hours and ten minutes, then it starts over.

  1. 1Breaks start themselves. A focus never does — you decide when you're ready.
  2. 2The long break arrives after the fourth pomodoro.
  3. 3Skip a focus and you don't get the credit for it.
  4. 4Quit mid-focus and it's still counting when you come back.

Settings

Change what you like. Or leave it — the defaults are the orthodox ones.

Open with Command-comma

How the card looks — its typeface, size, opacity, corner, and what it shows you — is in the same window, if you ever want to touch it.

Mac App Store

Smaller than one photo on your phone.

GetMac App Store

Free · 0.8 MB · no account, no sign-in

Nothing to set up, no account to make, nothing to close. Install it and start the first one.

  • Developer JD Huntington
  • Version 1.0 (11)
  • Size 0.8 MB
  • Requires macOS 13.0 or later
  • Chip Apple silicon

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