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`p` is for people who find that other pomodoro tools slow them down.

p is the fastest pomodoro tool you've ever used. It uses a simple tracking log file (~/.p.log by default) to keep track of your pomodoros and record simple statistics. It's less than 200 lines of pure Shell.

demo

For more information on the pomodoro technique see http://pomodorotechnique.com.

Installation

To install to ~/bin, paste this into your command line:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrismdp/p/master/p > ~/bin/p
chmod +x ~/bin/p

Usage

Controlling the Pomodoro

To start a pomodoro:

$ p start Doing stuff
Pomodoro started on "Doing stuff"

To check what we're currently doing, just type p status (or just p with no arguments):

$ p
🍅 24:34 on "Doing stuff"

To cancel a pomodoro:

$ p cancel
Cancelled. Don't worry: the next Pomodoro will go better!

Monitoring the Pomodoro

To play a ringing sound (or do any other action) at the end of a pomodoro use a command such as this:

$ p wait && afplay ring.wav
🍅 24:21 on "Doing stuff"

# (Time passes)

🍅 00:00 on "Doing stuff" completed. Well done!

To run a script each second you are waiting (to play a ticking sound, for example), pass the command as following arguments to wait:

$ p wait afplay tick.wav && afplay ring.wav

This command will be run as a seperate process, and started every second. Make sure that it finishes in a timely fashion!

Here are some example sounds you might like:

http://www.freesound.org/people/DrMinky/sounds/174721/ http://www.freesound.org/people/jorickhoofd/sounds/160052/ http://www.freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/77695/

Continual monitoring

To continually loop, running commands each second a pomodoro is running and each time one finishes, use p loop:

$ p loop "afplay tick.wav" "afplay ring.wav"

Use Ctrl-C to quit this loop.

Producing statistics

To look at your basic stats, type p log or have a look at your ~/.p.log file. It's in a simple CSV format:

$ p log

2015-05-06 10:04:20 +0100,'''-',Doing stuff
2015-05-06 10:35:20 +0100,',Doing more stuff

It should be possible to do some quite interesting statistical analysis. If you come up with anything let me know!

Credits

Chris Parsons - http://chrismdp.com