🍅 pomo

pomo is a simple CLI for using the Pomodoro Technique. There are some amazing task management systems but pomo is more of a task execution or timeboxing system. pomo helps you track what you did, how long it took you to do it, and how much effort you expect it to take.

The Pomodoro Technique is simple and effective:

• Decide on a task you want to accomplish
• Break the task into timed intervals (pomodoros), [approx. 25 min]
• After each pomodoro take a short break [approx. 3 - 5 min]
• Once all pomodoros are completed take a longer break [approx 15 - 20 min]
• Repeat

git clone git@github.com:kevinschoon/pomo.git
cd pomo
make
# copy pomo somewhere on your $PATH
cp bin/pomo ~/bin/

On Arch Pomo is available on the aur.

On macOS, pomo can be installed via MacPorts.

Once pomo is installed you need to initialize it’s database.

pomo init

Start a 4 pomodoro session at 25 minute intervals:

pomo start -t my-project "write some codes"

Pomo has a few configuration options which can be read from a JSON file in Pomo’s state directory ~/.pomo/config.json.

You can map colors to specific tags in the colors field.

Example:

{
    "colors": {
        "my-project": "hiyellow",
        "another-project": "green"
    }
}

By default pomo will setup a Unix socket and serve it’s status there.

echo | socat stdio UNIX-CONNECT:$HOME/.pomo/pomo.sock | jq .
{
  "state": 1,
  "remaining": 1492000000000,
  "count": 0,
  "n_pomodoros": 4
}

Alternately by setting the publish flag to true it will publish it’s status to an existing socket.

The Pomo CLI can output the current state of a running task session via the pomo status making it easy to script and embed it’s output in various Linux status bars.

You can create a module with the custom/script type and embed Pomo’s status output in your Polybar:

[module/pomo]
type = custom/script
interval = 1
exec = pomo status

Configured this bar by setting publish to true.

widget = {
	plugin = "unixsock",
	opts = {
		path = "pomo.sock",
		timeout = 2,
	},
	cb = function(t)
		local full_text
		local foreground = ""
		local background = ""
		if t.what == "line" then
			if string.match(t.line, "R") then
				-- green
				foreground = "#ffffff"
				background = "#307335"
			end
			if string.match(t.line, "B") or string.match(t.line, "P") or string.match(t.line, "C") then
				-- red
				foreground = "#ffffff"
				background = "ff8080"
			end
			return { full_text = t.line, background = background, foreground = foreground }
		elseif t.what == "timeout" then
			return { full_text = "-" }
		elseif t.what == "hello" then
			return { full_text = "-" }
		end
	end,
}

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