It's quite straight forward.
What makes Timerrhymer unique (apart from its astonishing display of beauty) is the way the time is formatted.
A table with examples should be clearer than any explanation:
| Input | Rendered Time |
|---|---|
| 45 | 45s |
| 130 | 1m 30s |
| 4500 | 45m 00s |
| 13000 | 1h 30m 00s |
| 123456 | 12h 34m 56s |
You can even enter things like 90 seconds or 90 minutes.
| Input | Rendered Time |
|---|---|
| 90 | 1m 30s |
| 9000 | 1h 30m 00s |
| 9090 | 1h 31m 30s |
You can also add spaces wherever you like, if that's what you're into.
| Input | Rendered Time |
|---|---|
| 13000 | 1h 30m 00s |
| 1 30 00 | 1h 30m 00s |
| 13 0 0 0 | 1h 30m 00s |
Let's say we want a timer for 12h 34m 56s. So we enter:
and hit enter, or click OK if our keyboard fell out of a skyscraper.
Then, Timerrhymer is nice enough to inform us of the result of the time we entered and asking us for confirmation.
In this example you can clearly see why this time format is substantially simpler than entering the required seconds for example.
Since the formatted time is correct, let's hit enter again.
And there we go! Our timer is running, happily ticking away wherever you like to put it. Minimizing it works just fine as well of course.
Hovering over the windows icon in the taskbar shows us the remaining time as well.
And once the time runs out, Timerrhymer gently informs us of this matter by coming into the foreground and playing a sweet lullaby to gently pry our attention away from whatever we were doing.
To close the window once the alarm goes off, bring it into focus and press space, enter or escape, and Timerrhymer will shut down.
...lies in its simplicity.
So Timerrhymer's whole lifecycle looks like this:
- start Timerrhymer
- enter time
- hit enter 2 times
and you're done! Timer's going, and you can go along your business again as well, a matter of 5 seconds.
The core uses for Timerrhymer are
- doing something for n minutes
or - doing something in n minutes
Examples for my personal primary uses for which I can highly recommend it:
- getting food out of the oven in n minutes
- or out of the pot in n minutes
and - leaving in n minutes
- relaxing before studying in n minutes and
- studying for m minutes before taking a break (for n minutes before studying for...)
Simply download Timerrhymer.exe from the Releases section, and you're good to go! No installation required, not even Python.
The first time running the .exe file you might get a warning saying that the app isn't recognized, but after clicking 'More Info' and 'Run anyway' the warning shouldn't pop up anymore.
The only way to get rid of the warning would require me to buy a yearly subscription costing hundreds of euros, and since this is free, open-source software, that isn't in the cards for now.
Alternatively, if you prefer to use Python to run the program instead, clone the repository and run main.py using a Python environment containing the packages listed in requirements.txt, which can simply be installed by running:
python -m pip install -r requirements.txtIf you enjoyed Timerrhymer, feel free to check out my other quality-of-life tools, all free and open-source as well, no ads and no nonsense.
(coming soon)
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- 4Focus: https://github.com/JohnStephens1/4Focus
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