I’ve been searching for a Windows countdown timer that satisfied all my requirements for a long time. If you recall, I searched back in 2008 and posted my findings here. I’ve continued to search without success, so I decided to write my own. It’s called SnapTimer.
While writing it I reviewed all the Lifehacker timer posts and implemented any reasonable feature I could find. It’s flexible enough to be used with the 2-minute rule in GTD, the Pomodoro technique, the 30 minutes of uninterrupted work from the Now Habit, Steve Pavlina’s 15-minute method, Merlin Mann’s (10+2)*5 hack and any other productivity method requiring a timer.
I’ve been using it for the past few weeks and I’ve seen a significant increase in productivity. I hope you will too.
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Hi, excelent program. One feature request: disable manual window resizing.
» Comment by yethwa on August 15, 2010 @ 1:53 am@yethwa Thanks. Do you mean to automatically resize the Window to when you change font sizes? If so, I’m planning to implement that in the next release.
» Comment by Dan on August 15, 2010 @ 8:49 amI mean if I catch a corner of the window, I can change its size. I think that it is not needed, automatically resize of the Window when I change font sizes is good idea.
And one more thing why sometimes time flashes every second?
» Comment by yethwa on August 15, 2010 @ 11:40 am@yethwa Even when it auto-resizes, there’s no harm in being able to adjust the size. If you don’t want to resize the window, then don’t
I tried to stop the flashing for a while, without much luck. The form is double-buffered which is supposed to stop it, but it obviously hasn’t.
» Comment by Dan on August 15, 2010 @ 2:35 pmHi Dan–
I love this app. Great work. Just curious: Is there a way to set a countdown to 30 seconds? I can only seem to set per minute countdowns.
Rob
» Comment by Rob Robinson on October 14, 2010 @ 7:42 pmHey Rob, thanks for the comment. There’s an undocumented way to make it countdown in seconds (though the label will still say minutes). Open up SnapTimer.ini with a text editor like Notepad and add this line anywhere in the [Main] section: SecondsMode=1
With this set the value in the minutes field will be treated as seconds. You can turn it off by setting the value to 0.
» Comment by Dan on October 14, 2010 @ 10:14 pmThanks, Dan. That’s definitely helpful. It would be great to see this functionality incorporated officially in a future release. Could you make it so that typing a period or colon and then numbers updated the seconds? Just an idea.
Rob
» Comment by Rob Robinson on October 15, 2010 @ 5:51 amI’d thought about allowing decimals, but I hadn’t considered a colon. That’s a great idea! It’s been added to the todo list.
» Comment by Dan on October 15, 2010 @ 8:46 amThank you very much!!! the program really helpful.
» Comment by Sreng on January 14, 2011 @ 5:42 amthank you again…
@Sreng You’re welcome, thanks for the comment.
» Comment by Dan on January 14, 2011 @ 10:05 am