This is not an ordinary work timer

[@c1dk1n]

It's astonishing that so many of my favorite creators also live with ADHD. Like me. I didn't even know this about you :)

[@05degrees]

This↑ Though it’s very reasonable in retrospect, as to my knowledge it’s usually very not obvious even you yourself have ADHD, even after learning about what it is (even barring widespread myths)¹, and it’s not much obvious for others around either (UNFORTUNATELY)-paradoxically, even for those who themselves have ADHD! (I browsed the r/ADHD sub and easily found two such cases described one day.) So, when we make the window into another’s life even narrower, we’ll most likely be missing things like this one. ¹ In my case, I was coming to realisation for half a year before I was certain and full of remembered facts about my life that checked out.

[@Scio_]

The insight about seeing time as snapshots when seconds aren't showing is making me realize something I wish I had realized a long time ago. I've turned on seconds on my own panel now! Thanks for building this tool, but also, for discussing your thought process!

[@ucielvai]

Man, I love this. I am a teacher but I also discovered I have ADHD like two years ago. I need to plan lessons all the time. Sometimes I research stuff online and I go down a rabbit hole when I should just keep on planning. I think this is gonna be a valuable addition when I need to finish my everyday tasks!

[@_BMS_]

This is not a comment on the idea of or the specifics of this productivity timer. Having gone to and successfully finished school, then attended college / university, and having successfully finished your teaching degree, then having competed for and successfully interviewed for your first postgraduate teaching position, and -- I am guessing here -- having finished that initial phase successfully, and then having successfully gone on to a job in the teaching profession, we can be certain beyond a reasonable doubt that you do _not_ have a mental illness that imparts a higher than average burden on you when it comes to paying attention and doing tedious tasks. In fact, almost all of your higher education consisted of what most common people would regard as tedious and boring activities. I think the concept of adult ADHD is completely bankrupt and driven by a wayward activism that does not accept that life is hard, and that modern life in particular with its unparalleled demands on success at what by far most uneducated people would consider utterly tedious and boring activities does not give you any free lunches. I have not read a book from cover to cover for at least 20 years. Getting a diagnosis of ADHD would be easy as pie. Would it have any explanatory value at all, though? Not on your life! A judgmentally detached reading of the evidence -- e.g., by looking at the Cochrane Library systematic reviews -- quickly tells you that the idea of stimulants treating a specific mental disorder is beyond ridiculous. There are no long-term data on outcomes. The data on short-term outcomes shows conclusively that objective measures of performance are not positively affected by stimulant treatment -- i.e., days missed at work, quality of performance, etc. You've been sold a lie by a disingenuous unholy matrimony of quack psychiatrists and industry players wanting to hawk a product. In psychiatry, everyone can be an _"expert"_. You just have to sell a convincing sounding narrative. The current neurodiversity movement hurts those that are really in need of our help and are unable to lobby loudly for themselves.

[@youforgotthelinkinthedescr6798]

As someone with adhd I will never finish this video Awesome timer though, will use

[@Persun_McPersonson]

Same but I put the video on in the background while I did something else so that I _could_ finish it lol

[@eren3390]

i don’t know if i have adhd, i can’t finish anything ever but when i’m focusing i lose hours and hours anyway and always start new things without finishing😅

[@unfa00]

Sounds familiar :D

[@Grunfeld]

I like the idea of this! I have issues with attention, the same as you describe. I want to try it with my next project due in 4 weeks. (I usually just stare into space, unable to move, for ages! lol) But let's see. Thank you for making this.

[@adriansguitar]

That looks so cool! I was searching for something like this to keep some consistency with my practice time. I also have a tendency to either hyper-focus or not focusing at all. Found someone did a Pomodoro plugin for the Xfce4 panel. Not so many features but it helps. Thank you unfa, It's always nice to see you!

[@unfa00]

Hey, thanks! I was using pomodoro a bit, but it doesn't really do it for me any more. Pomodoro is process-oriented, and I made HyperTimer to be (single) task-oriented. I could use pomodoro and still get sidetracked, because the timer doesn't really do anything else that say "stay focused on... whatever you're supposed to be focusing on right now!". And that quickly stopped being effective in my case. Now when I set HyperTimer I do that for a specific piece of work, and when I read it I have that one task in mind, racing against the timer to get it done before the timer runs out. And that seems to work much better for me.

[@infectedmushroom3488]

Amazing! I recently discovered I have ADHD and I couldn't figure out why pomodoro just wouldn't work for me but this is looks like a boon. Thank you.

[@davidak_de]

What is your issue with pomodoro? It does work well for me. Have you found a different solution?

[@Emc-it4lg]

Thank you for this tool Unfa. I also have ADHD, so this tool is a blessing! I'm glad to see you again and hope and wish you the best of health.

[@Dudex11a]

I'm blown away by the amount of polish that you've put into this

[@unfa00]

Thanks! Maybe it's because if it was janky I would be happy to use it :)

[@yosoyfreeman]

As always, is awesome how you contribute to the community. Excellent work!

[@unfa00]

Thanks, Freeman!

[@Rohtie]

Very cool! I made a condensed version of it as a fork to your codeberg repo for my own use case. I hope you can take some inspiration from it and maybe add a condensed setting for those of us that need a smaller version because big text is too distracting to work :)

[@unfa00]

Awesome! Yeah, I see a need for adding a "slim mode".

[@Rohtie]

Slim mode is definitely a better word for it than condensed, haha :D @@unfa00

[@VeganCossack]

post the exe please

[@caigner]

Especially when working at night time seems to fly by. This is a very useful tool. Thanks!

[@nvolcz]

Thanks for creating this! Will definitely try it out! I wonder if you could do a video on how to tune microphone settings for streaming/video conferancing in a libre environment.

[@unfa00]

Hey, thanks! I'm most likely not going to be making audio tutorials in the future. I've done a fair share of these over the years, and I think it's time for me to do some other things - like HyperTimer for example :D I have videos about processing your voice live for VoIP and streaming and I have videos about processing vocals. Just do some searching! And if these don't satisfy your needs, head over to chat.unfa.xyz and ask my community there :)

[@nostalgianinja]

Thank you for this! Currently using this for work especially for the fact that I'm time blind before and after work updates.

[@unfa00]

@@nostalgianinja Awesome, I'm glad I could help!

[@info-saturation]

Really cool, definitely gonna give this a try.

[@another-niko-pfp-holder]

This looks really cool! I've been looking for something that would help me stop playing so much games, and this might just do the trick.

[@unfa00]

Cool! Let me know if it did help :)

[@05degrees]

Oh I need to try this!! I just so often blow my sleep schedule up because I can’t just get up and go. Maybe I’ll need to run several timers at once though, lest I forget to do something else. We’ll see. ADHD too.

[@mountain-man0]

love this. Imma try this tomorrow while working. I think it will help a lot. Under gnome disabling the compiz animation stuff seemed to help, so I did since I don't care for it. Thank you!

[@ferossan]

Looks fantastic. I will try it. Thanks!!!

[@unfa00]

You're welcome!

[@SuperZutsuki]

I think a way to simplify the UI would be to remove the bar used to set the countdown time, and move the cancel/pause buttons into the progress bar. For setting the time you could just left-click drag on the empty progress bar for 1 hour increments and right-click drag for 15 minute increments. You could even animate the time allotment being added to the bar as you drag (maybe 1x4 block columns where each block is 15 minutes?). I don't know, just watching this video at 1am when I should be sleeping and my first use of the timer is to make me going to sleep in 55 seconds from now lol I love the TIME IS UP! sound and animation btw

[@xrenynthemusicmage6422]

Oh my gosh, this is exactly what I need! Thanks so much for sharing ❤️

[@newuniversespectacle2377]

THANK YOU! this is amazing!

[@unfa00]

Thanks! I'm glad you like it!

[@Insert_Bland_Name_Here]

This is such a cool little tool

[@foss_sound]

This. Is. Great. Thanks for sharing. :) For me it would make a lot more sense, to set the minutes in 5 minute intervals instead of the 15 minutes. (the design is not my favorite, since I struggle with OCD-ish thoughts I prefer the Apple/Gnomish way to design things for not distracting me in other ways, but I really appreciate your work anyways) :) At least the mode shown at 9:00 works for me.

[@paavoilves5416]

Hey man, this feels like a very useful program for me, thank you! One thing I'd like would be the possibility to make it smaller, like slimmer so it wouldn't take so much screen space.

[@paavoilves5416]

Oh you already had all these ideas xd should've watched before commenting

[@s77funky]

i like that the color changes

[@unfa00]

Yeah, I wanted to utilize everything I could to make this timer as low-effort to read as possible.

[@s77funky]

will it ever come to mac?@@unfa00

[@davidak_de]

Very interesting. I also experience hyperfocus where i can spend 30 hours on one thing and forget to eat, drink and sleep. I have not figured out a solution for time management. To concentrate on work and take breaks, the pomodore technique works well for me!

[@unfa00]

Yeah, for continuous work Pomodoro also helped me a but to take breaks, but honestly it mostly helped then I had very low energy so I could use the brakes to do something that'd energize me a bit so I don't fall asleep. I think I work best when I have a clear goal and a limited time to achieve it. That allows me to focus and be very productive. Continuous work without end in sight doesn't give me such motivation, and then pomodoro is good.

[@Spamdalf]

Omg, Thank you! This is so helpful. I tried using time timer but it doesn’t work, because I always readjust or turn it off. Creating extra steps in destructive actions is such a good idea.

[@foss_sound]

Interesting, that the mouse cursor is different in the magnifier window. o.O

[@unfa00]

Yeah, it always draws some default basic arrow, instead of whatever is configured in the system.

[@erfanium]

I have installed that now. let's see how it works Thanks!

[@davidak_de]

How is it going?

[@EmiPianoMX]

It's funny because I blowed today's time on repairing my Linux audio (another of your video topics), hahahaha.

[@sykoteddy]

This is really awesome man! Thank you for this tool. I have a really hard time doing stuff in time, and even if I like to get lost in time, many times I just need to finish the important stuff first. It doesn't say what dists it supports, so I expect it to not matter. It because of the program you used to make it? I can't say I recognize the name.

[@unfa00]

Hi! Thanks! The Linux binaries are pretty distro-agnostic. I used Godot game engine to make this tool.

[@PepeCheb]

10:40 Good project, but what is the point of displaying 0 hours until the end at the beginning (isn't it better not to display it at all if it is equal to 0?)

[@unfa00]

I was thinking about it, bit I thought keeping each section in its place will be easier to follow. I hate when timers jump around :D The inactive section gets semi-transparent to help ignore it.

[@tomar666]

Yeah, this can be helpful for me 😊 awesome idea 👍

[@nonwibb]

i have adhd and know the problem for sure. i might try this out tonight

[@monad_tcp]

I have a problem with my ADHD, I can't start things, but when I finally do it, I can't stop doing it until its done. I need an anti-timer.

[@penetrationof]

Use TickTick to record time

[@HomestudioDad]

Time management is HARD, I'll run your tool.

[@FloodSociety265]

Great project, so well thought out... I love how good it looks too, I code a little but my interfaces tend to look like the dog's dinner... I'm curious: do you use this kind of time boxing only for paid, billable work, or also for creative projects (making music, your FPS project, etc...)? I hope you're doing fine, best wishes...

[@rosseastman2134]

Hi thank you so much for this I love it. I'll try it out with my workstation tomorrow :) I have no experience with Godot, but noticed a couple of spellos with your readme. Would it be ok for me to make a PR for that tomorrow on my (now stylishly timed) lunch break? Thank you again, I really think this will be valuable to me as a fellow spicy brained individual. All the best R

[@rosseastman2134]

Also, I had a idea for a 'pomadoro' mode - set your task length, and hit trigger the mode to insert breaks at intervals, maybe indicated in the progress bar? Just a thought for a feature expansion that some folks might find useful

[@unfa00]

Hey, thanks! Feel free to submit a PR for the Readme changes - and thank you! A pomodoro mode could be a great idea!

[@Lito_419]

I have always wanted an MGS HP bar to be a timekeeper. I’m making a switch into web design/development and the time blindness can get real quick lol

[@TomChristian-nl4yi]

Hi unfa. I learned a lot from your video. I want to learn how to export dolby atmos audio from ardour

[@unfa00]

Hey, thanks! I'd recommend to ask in my community chat: chat.unfa.xyz

[@leonaardegraeve9242]

Unfa, congratulations! A feature suggestion: make it transparent. And a question: where are you from?

[@manuelrivera6778]

Hi Unfa! Just wondering, do you still use Olive Video Editor for your videos in 2024? What version are you using? Do you have or could you make a video on how you use olive for your videos??? Thank you!

[@unfa00]

Hey! I do! I use the latest 0.2 version. It's usually stable, and outside of a couple annoying bugs it works pretty well. Though in some projects it doesn't start crashing a lot. It is quite on par with 0.1 or even better, because of the node compositing, and deep color processing. The community is going strong and developing the software, even though Matt had to get a different job, because community donations and KZbin were not enough to sustain his living.

[@annacruz2866]

Is there any chance for a mac version? I love this timer idea... If you just need some way to compile please send me a message and I can do that xD

[@unfa00]

Hey! Yes, I could use your help - I don't have any Apple hardware I could use to test. Please file an issue and hopefully we can figure it out together :) codeberg.org/unfa/HyperTimer/issues

[@annacruz2866]

@@unfa00 Done ;)

[@BadBoy-wk5uu]

Unfa why u quit music? Cuz of Ardour that it’s chargeable now?

[@unfa00]

Ardour always offered official binaries for $1 one time or monthly :) I didn't quit music, I ended my audio production educational project :)

[@Hollowbirb]

the funny thing is that i came here while not concentraiting

[@die_lokki287]

It is quite resource heavy tbh. 100+ mb of RAM. But the app is nice still, I can see myself using it. Thanks

[@C4CH3S]

It being made in a game engine is probably why. A fully native approach would probably weight much less but it would take a whole lot more work

[@unfa00]

Yes, the 100MB of memory (and 60 MB of binary) is due to full functionality of Godot game engine being there. I am looking into making custom builds for reduced size, but initial attempt was not successful (the build failed). I'd love to get some help from fellow Godot game/app developers :)

[@C4CH3S]

@@unfa00 I'm a web developer so I don't think I can help. Good look tho, if you end up making it a browser extension you can make those pop out and persist on top fo windows too iirc

[@erfanium]

@@unfa00 can't it be done using simpler solutions? an GTK app or QT? Godot sounds like a overkill to me

[@die_lokki287]

@@erfanium I think it's harder to do all that eye candy in GTK or Qt

[@egyt5453]

21:09 I hate this sound sooo much 👀