Active Timer Widget : Apps On The Move

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Josh Fishburn

started a topic over 2 years ago

I’d love to be able to add a widget for the active timer in beorg. The existing widgets are useful but limited. Thanks for considering!

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Matthew Kennard

said over 2 years ago

That is an interesting idea. There would be some limitations - if you are using beorg and Emacs at the same and beorg hasn't synced the latest files, and therefore doesn't know what the current timer is, what you see would be out of date. However if just using beorg to manage the timers then beorg could easily persist some basic information about the running timer and display in a widget.

If you have any thoughts on the above that might be useful in seeing whether that limitation would make the feature still useful.

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Josh Fishburn

said over 2 years ago

In my experience the sync is actually pretty good—beorg tends to keep up with my active timer in Emacs unless I leave it running for way too long. So, I’d be comfortable with this limitation and would only expect perfect reliability if I initiated the timer from Beorg. Even simply having the currently timed task displayed (with our without the timer, although with the timer would be my preference) would be helpful. I would not even mind running a sync in Beorg before relying on the widget if I’m started in EMacs and moving over to Beorg. In short, I’m comfortable with some compromises for the option to have this feature and would find it more useful than the current widgets.

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Aravind PS

said 3 months ago

Hi, is there any work on timer widget or a live notification!? As of now once I start a timer there is no indication of timer running anywhere.. unless I open the app and it is also a subtle icon on the top.. I only use beorg for tracking don’t use emacs.. This will be very useful feature if not a widget atleast a live notification of a running clock!

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Matthew Kennard

said 3 months ago

I haven't done anything on this yet. Always good though to be reminded of these requirements, and bumps it back up the forum.

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Jason Yu

said 2 months ago

Would be cool! Especially with latest ios and watchos, you also get the live activity mirrored to the watch, so you would always see the org-mode clock ticking.