pomo.sh

pomo.sh is a simple Pomodoro timer written in bash with minimal dependencies. It is designed to be easy to use from the command-line and integrates nicely into status bar such as xmobar.

Installation

None necessary. Either place pomo.sh on your PATH or run it by specifying the full path.

Usage

pomo.sh [-h] [start | stop | pause | restart | clock | notify | usage]

Options:

-h

Print usage message.

Actions:

start

Start Pomodoro timer.

stop

Stop Pomodoro timer.

pause

Pause Pomodoro timer.

restart

Restart a paused Pomodoro timer.

clock

Print how much time (minutes and seconds) is remaining in the current Pomodoro cycle. A prefix of B indicates a break period, a prefix of W indicates a work period and a prefix of P indicates the current period is paused.

notify

Raise a notification at the end of every Pomodoro work and break block (requires notify-send). Note that this action (unlike all others) does not terminate and is best run in the background.

usage

Print this usage message.

Environment variables:

POMO_FILE

Location of the Pomodoro file used to store the duration of the Pomodoro period (mostly using timestamps). Multiple Pomodoro timers can be run by using different files. Default: $HOME/.local/share/pomo.

POMO_WORK_TIME

Duration of the work period in minutes. Default: 25.

POMO_BREAK_TIME

Duration of the break period in minutes. Default: 5.

Examples

To start a new Pomodoro session, pause and stop a running Pomodoro session respectively:

$ pomo.sh start
$ pomo.sh pause
$ pomo.sh stop

To see how much time is left in the current Pomodoro block:

$ pomo.sh clock

pomo.sh can also send notifications about the end of work and break blocks using notification-daemon and send-notify. This involves pomo.sh sleeping until the end of a block and so is best run in the background:

$ pomo.sh notify &

Status Bars

The clock command is ideal for integrating pomo.sh with various status bars. Some examples can be found below.

xmobar

Add the following to your xmobar configuration:

Config {
   commands = [
      ...
      , Run Com "pomo.sh" ["clock"] "pomo" "10"
   ]
}

The output of the clock command can then be inserted into the xmobar template using %pomo%.

polybar

Add pomo as a new polybar module to your polybar config:

[module/pomo]
type = custom/script
interval = 1
exec = pomo.sh clock
click-left = pomo.sh pause

Then add it to your module definition, e.g.

modules-right = date pomo

Dependencies

bash, GNU coreutils (cat, cut, date, printf, sleep, stat, touch, wc).

On Linux, the notify action also requires send-notify (supplied by libnotify) and an implementation of notification-daemon.

On MacOS, you can use homebrew to install coreutils.

License

MIT.

See also

Pymodoro contains many more features but I wanted something a little simpler.