• she/her

Recently appeared on this plane. Last seen: Posting (in a serif font) and/or casting spells. my icon and header image are turned around on purpose actually its not like i dont know how to fix it or anything. my age is private information but if you feel the need to know it presume i'm somewhere between 18 and the age you are and treat me accordingly


bazelgeuse-apologist
@bazelgeuse-apologist

throws this ADHD app idea into here - an alarm app but when you set up an alarm, it creates a visual representation of how much time is left. so if it's 10 AM and you have an appointment at 1, you can set an alarm for 12:30 and it'll display as a 2 hour 30 min countdown timer with some kind of visual to represent the amount of time left, like one of those circle timers that slowly depletes.

bonus: you can set intervals for a timer, like you can say "alert me both 30 minutes and 5 minutes before this time in particular" and set the timer for 1, and it'll ring at both 12:55 and 12:30.

the issues I have with existing alarm/reminder stuff is that they do not give me a visual of how much time remains, which our fool of a brain interprets as "there is no time remaining, time to sit here paralyzed forever." seeing a slowly depleting circle or some other concrete representation puts it at ease. I have so far been accomplishing this by setting up timers by hand, but that requires me to calculate the time differences myself and it is an error-prone process


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in reply to @bazelgeuse-apologist's post:

Oh wait, these might not be exactly what I'm looking for - I was thinking about something where the input is a specific time (like 2 PM) rather than an amount of time (like 50 minutes) if that makes sense? And it calculates the amount of time until your input time and shows a visual countdown based on that, instead of just going off at the input time.

I actually do use a great app called MultiTimer for time visualization, but it doesn't have the functionality I described.