READY
READY
Half an hour is the unit the rest of the world is scheduled in, which makes it the easiest block to defend. Nobody argues with half an hour. It is a chapter, a service wash, a bake, a walk that counts as exercise, and the standard length of every meeting that could have been shorter.
It is also the point where a countdown becomes genuinely useful rather than decorative: thirty minutes is long enough that you will lose track, and losing track is how a half-hour job takes an afternoon.
One practical trick. If half an hour is what you have, spend the last five deliberately: stop the work at twenty-five and use the remainder to leave the task somewhere you can pick it up. Notes closed, file saved, the next step written down. Work that ends mid-sentence costs ten minutes of re-reading tomorrow, which is most of what you saved by rushing.
Press start or the space bar, and press F for fullscreen if this is running on a screen across the room.
There is no interim warning by design: a timer that interrupts twice is worse than one that interrupts once. If you want a marker halfway, run two fifteen minute blocks.
Yes. The +1 MIN button extends the countdown in place, as many times as you like, without resetting what has already elapsed.
No. Reopen the page and it picks up where it should be. If it finished while you were away it opens in the finished state, quietly, because an alarm for something that ended an hour ago only confuses.