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 survives reloading the tab and closing the browser.

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 center of Focus view.

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.

Skip counts, but does not record

Skip on a work session advances the counter (today’s tally goes up and the break comes next), but nothing is written to Focus analytics. Only sessions you let run to zero are recorded there. That is why “sessions today” can be ahead of the analytics panel.

Where the settings are

They are split across two places, and both write 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 is minutes per week, 60 to 2400. The Weekly Goal bar in the analytics panel measures against it.

The stopwatch

Focus view’s timer has a second mode, Stopwatch, which counts up and has a lap button. Use it for open-ended work.

The stopwatch is not a Pomodoro. It does not advance the session count and it is not recorded in Focus analytics.