pomobar

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A macOS menu-bar Pomodoro timer that logs every focus session to Notion.

ElectronReactTypeScriptViteTailwind CSSNotion API

pomobar lives in the macOS tray — no dock icon, no window to manage — and pulls the day’s scheduled tasks straight from a Notion database, so the timer and the real to-do list are the same thing. Every completed session is written back to Notion as an honest record of where focus time actually went.

Highlights

Menu-bar popover UI with configurable focus / short-break / long-break durations and pomodoros-per-cycle.
Two-way Notion sync — starts focus sessions against scheduled tasks, marks them done, and logs every session to a sessions database.
Local-first writes: sessions hit disk before the network, so a flaky connection never loses data.
Crash recovery — in-progress sessions are persisted on every transition and restored on relaunch.
Daily planning, goal tracking with streaks, native completion banners, and an optional Discord webhook.

Why it exists

Every other timer I tried was a silo — you’d finish a session and the data died with it. pomobar reads the day’s scheduled tasks from Notion, times the work against them, and writes each completed session back as a record I can review later. The timer is the logging tool.

Screenshots

A full pomobar cycle — pick a task, start focus, count down, then mark complete and write back to Notion. — One full cycle: pick a task, focus, then the mark-complete write-back to Notion.

pomobar task picker showing today’s plan and scheduled tasks pulled from Notion. — Today’s plan and scheduled tasks, pulled straight from Notion — pick one and start.

pomobar popover counting down during an active focus session. — An active focus session, timed against the chosen task.

pomobar prompting to mark the task complete when a focus session ends. — When a session ends on a task, pomobar offers to mark it done in Notion.

pomobar goals strip tracking pomodoros and focus minutes with a running streak. — Daily goals track pomodoros and focus minutes, with a running streak.

Repository

njranum/pomobar