READY
READY
Ten minutes is the working unit of a tidy house and a functional meeting. It is the length of a proper warm-up, a phone call that has a point, and the tidying sprint that gets a kitchen from unusable to fine. Teachers use it for independent work; nurses use it for observations; anyone with a stove uses it constantly.
It is long enough that you will settle into something and short enough that nobody negotiates about it. That combination is why ten minutes ends up as the default block in so many routines.
The tip: give the ten minutes a finish line rather than a subject. "Ten minutes of tidying" drifts. "Everything off the counter before this rings" does not, because you can see whether you made it. The countdown supplies the urgency, but you have to supply something for it to be urgent about.
Start it with the button or the space bar, add a minute if you are close, and reset with R. Nothing is stored anywhere but this device.
It does. The end time is recorded as a real clock time, so locking, sleeping or switching apps does not slow it down. Reopen the page and it shows the correct remaining time.
Not automatically, because a countdown that restarts itself is how people lose track of an afternoon. For repeating work and rest blocks, use the interval timer instead.
The display rounds up, so a full ten minutes reads as ten. A clock that shows 09:59 the instant you start it feels like it has stolen a second, and by the end it will have.