I’m happy to announce Pomodori release 0.3. Just follow the link and the installation instructions on the page. For those who don’t know, Pomodori is the pomodoro management application I’m using every day since February. “819 pomodoros and counting!” is what I see right now. Pomodori isn’t just a timer, it’s a tool implementing the Pomodoro Technique. At this point Pomodori is missing several important features and that’s the reason to call it a zero something release.
Pomodori improved my day by day implementation of the PT featuring essential aspects without my assistance: start a 25’ countdown, ring, ask me for a description, give me a 5’ break, ring again, start another pomodoro. Recently Pomodori can also answer questions like “what did I learned yesterday?” or “how many pomodoros can I plan for today?” and so on. Clearly this is just scratching the surface of the technique. For example, right now the inventory and the day by day todo list are external plain text files that one day I want to see integrated in the tool.
Technically Pomodori isn’t just built for time to market, quite the opposite actually. The project is my playground for MacRuby, something the typical user of the PT sure cares about! The fact that it’s targeting only the Mac is also a barrier for mass adoption. So dear customer, be patient if you don’t see the standard behavior expected from a mac app right away, I’m learning all about Cocoa right now.
In this release, 0.3, you can finally access partions of the Pomodori database. This is limited to yesterday’s and today’s pomodoros but the plan is to extend the search to any ranges so you’re free to dig deep into the past. Announce: with 0.4 you should see an exciting new feature coming up, which is just the beginning of the social part of Pomodori.
Developers! If you like Ruby and the Mac please join me on github you won’t be disappointed. Pomodori implements an interesting MVC architecture and it’s fully built TDD from the ground up, view logic included, no XCode required. Especially if you know Cocoa/Objective-C, that’s my weakest point. Enjoy!
