When rest is over time is not updated, could be confusing

Suggestion from a user via email:

I suggestion could be to have a tick box in settings that when checked would start at the Pomodoro number when re-enter the app during the same day. Always reset the Pomodoro number when enter the app on next day; i.e. if left app on Wednesday, then if re-enter on wednesday, keep the number, however if re-enter on Thursday or later, restart at #1

Hi, thanks for the app!
One request: when i press "Back" while the app is working, it sends me to one of the preloaded watch faces and it doesn't want to show downloaded watch face, which I'm actually using on a permanent basis.
Is it possible to fix this and ensure that the "Back" button sends to the actually applied watch face?

First thanks for working on this app.
I love it.

I found an area that may make your app more adopted.

Imagine this scenario:

1. Start studying for 25 minutes
2. the 5 min break start, but you need to finish something that will take you 2 min.

There is no way to decide when the Break start, it simply start inmeadiatly.

I know you may be really busy.

Let me know, if I can cooperate donating a cup of cofee, or if you have 30 min for a video call to give me some code pointer, I will be happy to fix it myself.

Hi Igor @klimeryk : I assume this is the same app I downloaded from Connect IQ. It's great for timing focused work/breaks. I'm not sure if it's possible to access the data from the device to use to create reports?

PS: While I would like the background run function, too, the app serves its purpose to make me feel like I'm working. 😄

Just downloaded to my Garmin Vivoactive 3 Music. I open up my garmin's activities menu and tap Pomodoro. I see:
"Pomodoro #1
Ready!
13:44" (I guess that's the time)

If I press the action button it sends me back to the activities menu, swiping does nothing, but if I short or long tap on the screen the device vibrates and shows the IQ logo with a (!) bubble. I've only had my garmin for a few days but I'm guessing this means the app crashed.

I tend to do 50 minute pomodoros, and wanted to see if I could use this app but change the length 'pomodoroLength' and 'shortBreakLength' in properties.XML as seen here.

It seems that making this change breaks the timer in the app on my Garmin device, as it is stuck indefinitely on 25 minutes left. Is there a separate hard-coded integer in the code that needs to be changed to fix this? Appreciate this app exists BTW, I just find scheduling 50+10 minutes much more appealing. Thanks!

The sound effects are controlled by your global sound settings - so if you've muted your sounds globally, this app will respect that, of course. But it might be better to have a more fine-grained control and some users might prefer to keep sounds enabled (for other activities), while the sounds in the Pomodoro app to be disabled (because they want to use it in a library, etc.).

Thanks for this useful application! There's one thing which confuses me a bit though:

On my Vivoactive 3 Music, the controls of this application seem to work like this:

• Touching screen: Starts pomodoro (unexpected but okay)
• Swiping to the right: Exits application (expected)
• Pressing the physical button: Exits application (unexpected!)

With e.g. the builtin timer and stopwatch app, touching the screen does nothing, pressing the button starts/stops. Intuitively, I'd expect the same to happen in the pomodoro app as well, so I routinely press the button and lose my state because the app exited.

The top line of text, e.g. "Pomodoro # 5" is obscured by the circle in the upper-right corner of the instinct series watch faces.

Seems like there are three fields here:

1. the label "pomodoro"
2. the pomodoro number "# 5"
3. Time of day

Might be better to layout as the "3 Fields Layout" from https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/user-experience-guidelines/instinct-2022/

Hi,
Why enable vibrate when timer is ongoing?
why not use use minutes:second directly, no vibrate, and vibrate & sound after timeout.

While I stand by my reasonings mentioned in #1 (comment), as stated there I understand that not everyone will agree with this feature. So as a compromise I'll try to introduce an easily toggleable setting inside the app itself - so that you don't need to search for it in the mobile app or Garmin Express. Plus, it's easier to discover the setting this way.

cc @alphajayGithub @julienbourdeau

The original idea was to mimic the ticking of a clock with a slight vibration every second. However, not everyone likes this (and why it's disabled by default). However, as pointed out by a user via email, less frequent vibrations could be a good middle point. For example, every minute. There should be a setting to control this.

4% for 1h, nothing else is running.

Hi

I'm using your app on my vivoactive 3, it work great ! Thank for your work !

I don't know if I don't use your app well but I'm facing some problems and maybe you have a workaround.

• Is it possible to show actual time during a pomodoro / resting timer ?
• Is it possible to exit app (with button or gesture) and be back at the right moment ? For example, I want to use my watch during resting time but as soon as I exit the app, I lost progression and timer.

Thank again for your work.

I'd like to see the seconds in addition to the minutes. Thanks! Great app :-)

Hi. The app is awesome.But there is one main problem wich can be fixed:App will exit if swap right.Looks like it doesn't work fully asynchronous. Is it possible to fix quick?Thanks!

Thanks for your good work. The 1.2.0 version went on pretty well, until yesterday I update to 1.3.0, the App was crashed and my devise was power off and start again every time when I restart or exit this app. Please fix this bug ASAP, my devise is fenix 3HR.

I suggest each pomodoro is saved as custom workout.

Hi klimeryk, I'm using garmodoro on Fenix 3, and after pressing START, I feel like I've had a new heart on my wrist, as the app keep vibrating on and on. I tried to disable it by setting 0 for either strength and duration but it said "invalid value"

Hi,

I would like the meaning of "Duration of the vibration on every tick" ? its minimum no is 80 !! What does it mean ?

Also, during the countdown, the notification of whatsapp to my watch, Fenix 5 is disbable?

Looking for some answer thx a lot

hello
this is a follow up / similiar to: #22
there it was asked to "Preserve pomodoro count per day", which is an excellent idea.
what about having your pomodoro count on your daily dashboard nearby the activity?

i m doing the 300 pomodoros challenge -> https://www.cocooa.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/300-pomodoros.pdf and using this app could help it a lot!

Thanks Manolo

edit: title & grammar in main post

Fantastic App!!! 😄

I'm often working in the library and the beeping is not polite to others. It would be cool if there was a setting "only vibrate".

On my fenix 3 back button on main screen doesn't work, so I need to start/stop timer and then exit.

Please add the Garmin Descent G1 to the Supported List.
In theory, it should have the same watch face as the Garmin Instinct 2 and shouldn't make a lot of extra work.

It would be a real blessing.
Thanks for your Work

Submitted by a user:

Any chance you can implement a better user flow on the screen touch during a session? When I touch the screen it asks me if I want to reset or exit, a confirmation would be nice on both of these since this screen happens for me accidentally a lot. Also the bottom button takes me back to the time left screen from there because that's the watch's default back button but there could be a resume/back menu item next to the exit restart too. Would it be possible to implement a setting where you would enable getting to this screen with only the top button push. So touching the screen accidentally wouldn't show the menu if that onlyTopButton setting is enabled?

Makes total sense - my devices all have physical buttons (and no touch screens), so I missed how the default behaviour might not be optimal for touch devices. I'll try to look into it - hopefully, the device simulator from Garmin will allow me to work on this without having an actual touch-enabled device 😅