Building a Pomodoro app I don't forget about

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve installed and abandoned about a dozen Pomodoro apps over the last few years. Forest, Flora, Tide, Focus Keeper, the lot. They all worked when I was using them. The 25 minutes weren’t the problem. The problem was that after two or three weeks I would just stop opening them. Forget they existed.

The discipline problem in Pomodoro isn’t sitting through the timer once you’ve started. It’s getting yourself to start in the first place, on day 17, when nothing in the world is reminding you the app exists.

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Building a Pomodoro app I don't forget about