[FEATURE REQUEST] Option to disable "intervals before long break"

[SublimePeace]

Hi, Miguel, thank you so much for your work! I've been working on the exact same plugin, down to the same details but haven't quite had the time to finish it, so I'm glad to have found yours. Upon reading your blog article I realized we have the same pain points and philosophy for a pomo solution inside Obsidian, so I love the way you implemented everything all nicely together. I've been using this 10+ year old firefox extension, and the constant context-switching was a real issue.

I personally don't use long breaks, only short ones (50 min pomo, 10 min break), so I'd love if there was an option to disable the "intervals before long break" and the accompanying "long break duration". That way I wouldn't have to cycle over the long break each time when using middle mouse click on the status bar.

If you don't mind, I'd also like to share my list of the few most commonly requested features in pomodoro trackers/timers I identified while doing research:

• displaying the interval count next to the timer in the status bar, which I got from Pomotroid. This helps users keep track of how long before their long break

• auto-start, not just auto cycle. This means when the timer finishes the current work/break, it not only cycles to the next one, but also starts it automatically and immediately as well

• stats with visualization like how the firefox extension I linked above does it, using charts.js. This could be done by storing a key-value pair of date:pomodoro_sessions_completed in the plugin's data.json

What do you think of these features? I'm interested in helping them bring to life if you feel like they would be useful additions, although I can't give an ETA unfortunately.

[semanticdata]

Hey @SublimePeace,

Thank you for taking the time to open this issue. I appreciate your thoughtful feedback and wanted to let you know that knowing you read the blog post made writing it worth it. :)

I'm going to spend some time thinking if and how to implement your suggestions. Is there any of them you are interested in collaborating on? Here are my thoughts on each of them:

Add the option of disabling long breaks

I like this one. But I wonder if you could achieve the same by setting both break durations to be the same? What's your opinion?

Display internal count next to timer

Your reference helped, I can see why this would be helpful. I am having a hard time visualizing it on the status bar without expanding the current footprint of the plugin. Example: 25:00 to 25:00 (1/4)

I would be open to reviewing a mockup if you want to create a placeholder of how you would like it to look like. Like a screenshot of the plugin in the status bar with added placeholder text for the cycle counter.

Auto-start next cycle

This is a really good one. I'm leaning towards implementing it.

Stats dashboard/visualizations

This also sounds interesting but I'm less inclined to implemented with other better ideas available.

I would be open to discussing it some more if you are interested in submitting this feature yourself. It would need to align with the general idea of the plugin and by default stay out of the way of the user unless enabled.

[SublimePeace]

I like this one. But I wonder if you could achieve the same by setting both break durations to be the same? What's your opinion?

Absolutely, after writing the post I went with setting Intervals Before Long Break to 9999999, that works too. Honestly now that I'm reflecting on it, not using long breaks is probably a niche use case, and considering there's these 2 workarounds which effectively disable that feature, it's in all likelyhood best to leave it as it is.

For the interval count, the only smaller footprint way I can think of compared to your text example is displaying it as a hover text via aria-label="", like so:

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As for the stats visualization, I'll take a stab at it when I have the time in a few months and get back to you if I find a way that's worth pursuing, no promises though

[semanticdata]

I added the auto-progression feature (auto start next timer) in 1.5.0. Let me know how is working for you.

I'll experiment with the interval count. Your aria-label="" suggestion looks promising.

[winterfauna]

One idea that could possibly work if the aria-label="" suggestion proves more complex could be to have the timer show a visual change on the last interval before a long break; perhaps a change in colour when hovered, or a change in icon?
Obviously it doesn't completely stand in place of the full interval count, but might still serve the desire to be warned if a long break is coming up?
Not a use case I particularly rely on though, so just spitballing.