Pomodoro
There is a single Pomodoro timer in TabOasis. Start it in Focus view and the pill on the Kanban board is already counting down; pause it in Widgets and Focus view agrees. It also survives reloading the tab and closing the browser, because it works from timestamps rather than from a tick.
Where it shows up
Section titled “Where it shows up”- The pill, bottom right of the board. Click it for the full dialog with the ring, the controls and today’s session count. Hide it under Preferences → Show Pomodoro timer.
- The Pomodoro widget in Widgets view.
- The centre of Focus view.
How a cycle runs
Section titled “How a cycle runs”Out of the box: 25 minutes of work, 5 minutes of short break, and a 15-minute long break after every 4 work sessions. When a session ends you get a two-tone chime and a browser notification, and the timer moves to the next session type.
The three buttons are reset, start/pause and skip.
Where the settings are
Section titled “Where the settings are”Split across two places, both writing the same values:
The gear → Pomodoro Timer, from anywhere:
- Work (min) — 1 to 120
- Short Break (min) and Long Break (min) — 1 to 60
- Sessions before long break — 1 to 10
- Play sound on completion
Focus view → Settings panel, which repeats the durations and adds the three you cannot reach anywhere else:
- Auto-start Break and Auto-start Focus — roll straight into the next session instead of waiting for you. Off by default; touching the timer in the meantime cancels the pending auto-start.
- Focus Goal — minutes per week, 60 to 2400, which is what the Weekly Goal bar in the analytics panel measures against.
The stopwatch
Section titled “The stopwatch”Focus view’s timer has a second mode, Stopwatch: count-up, with a lap button. It is for open-ended work where a 25-minute box is the wrong shape.
The stopwatch is not a Pomodoro. It does not advance the session count and it is not recorded in Focus analytics.