For years now I’ve been searching for the perfect timeboxing app for the Mac.
I’ve gone through about 30 or so but not one of them delivers what I want.
I began doing another search today and someone on Quora mentioned that Keyboard Maestro might be able to achieve this. I’m wondering whether anyone can help me or at least tell me whether it’s possible.
All I want to do is carve up my day into tasks. I focus on a lot of projects at once and I often become absorbed and/or distracted I need to be reminded of the task at hand and when it’s time to move on to the next one.
So, in the morning, I want to select a bunch of tasks (perhaps from ones I’ve used in the past)
• Then select the timings for each (ideally) So half an hour on guitar practice, an hour on a short story, half an hour replying to email, 20 minutes to watch a ted talk, an hour on my website etc etc.
• Then I want to start the timer. In the menubar I want it to tell me the task I’m currently working on and how much time is left.
• When the time is up I want a notification that gives me the option of moving onto the next task or adding an extra fifteen minutes on to the task that I want to finish.
That’s all. Is this possible? Not one of the timers I’ve tried do all of the above. Mostly they just count up (not down) or just tell me the time is up without giving me the option of adding more time onto the current task.
Any help greatly appreciated.