Filed under: Productivity, Google, Browsers
Chromodoro adds a productivity timer to Google Chrome
We've featured productivity apps based on the Pomodoro Technique before. Jason shared Pomodoro for the Mac and I recently discovered KeepFocused for my Windows system.If you spend a ton of time in your browser -- and that browser happens to be Google Chrome, Chromium, or SRWare Iron -- you might want to install the Chromodoro extension.
Once it's active, just click the little tomato to start a 25-minute session. Best of all, the timer works across multiple windows, so you don't have to worry about losing track when you tab between instances.
When your session is done, an alert window opens to remind you that it's break time!
You'll still need a pen and paper to jot down your tasks - there's no note function built in to extension. It would, however, make an excellent addition...nudge nudge!
Chromatic is one of the best time-wasters I've recently come across. It's all about the gameplay -- no Flash graphics here. You play a "circle" (it doesn't really have a name in the game). You move around with the arrow keys, and you change colors with Z, X, and C.
You can either be red, blue, or yellow, and you can switch at any time during the game. Each color has different capabilities -- yellow can double-jump, while red has a longer dash (which is like a forward sprint, activated by double-pressing DOWN).
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Scott said 6:15PM on 1-17-2010
Chrome is rapidly closing the gap to firefox.
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Branden said 3:08AM on 1-18-2010
This looks neat, is there something for Firefox that does the same thing?
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