Hello people, as you may or may not remember I shared a sneak peak of my latest tool for my project Ephestos , a time managment tool I call ChronosManager.

This tool is important for me for 2 reasons
1) Its my first venture into the island of Custom GUIs with Morphic here is how it looks like

chronosmanager01.png

The goal of this tool is to be a next generation for the Pomodoro tool that was available through Catalog/Configuration Browser.
2) My goal is to expand this tool way more than you see into a more advanced time management tool , with several ideas I will reveal in each release.

So for those not familiar with the Pomodoro technique , its quite simple really, the idea is that its best to work taking regular brakes to help relax the mind but also to keep careful track of time to keep away distractions. So we divide our work into tasks , a number of tasks make a daily goal , each task is divided to the actual work time (time limit) and time to relax (brake limit) .

Bare in mind this is a version 0.1 it may contain bugs and issues, right now I forgot to implement a display for the completed tasks but that will be added in the next few days.

The GUI you see in the image is fully expanded the secondary panel can be hidden and the whole GUI can be minimised into a regular taskbar button like all pharo windows but instead of displaying the name of the app it displays useful info like timer and stopwatch time so you can keep it minimised without taking any space from your GUI.

The concept of timer and stopwatch is just about how you want to display the time passed for each task, it makes no diffirence which one you choose the one displays remaining time (timer) of timelimit period or brakelimit period depending in what period you currently are and stopwatch its just moves time forward with similar workflow.��

Installation
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Installing is dead easy just open configuration browser/ catalog browser and load it from there and it will also add a menu entry at the world menu.

Hope you like it much more to come :)