10 Minute Timer
Ten minutes, whenever you're ready.
10 Minute Timer ready. Press start to begin.
Each mark is 30 seconds
Ten minutes is the most borrowed unit of time there is. It is the length of a warm-up, a tidy, a meditation, and the offer you make to yourself when starting something feels impossible — because ten minutes is small enough that refusing it looks silly.
What 10 minutes is good for
The ten-minute start
Agree to ten minutes of the thing you are avoiding. Most of the time you keep going; when you do not, you have still done ten minutes.
A tidy with an end
One room, one surface. The timer is what stops it turning into an afternoon.
Sitting still
The length most guided meditations settle on, because it is long enough to arrive and short enough to repeat daily.
A capped break
Longer than a pomodoro break without being a real interruption.
Questions
Why does ten minutes work for procrastination?
Starting is the expensive part, not continuing. Ten minutes is short enough that the part of you refusing to begin has no argument left, and once you have begun the refusal usually stops mattering.
Can I use it as a pomodoro?
You can, though most people find it ends before they are properly in. Twenty-five minutes is the usual length; ten is better as a starter or a break.
Will it make a sound when it finishes?
Yes — an alarm rings when the countdown reaches zero. The countdown also turns red and the tab title changes to "Time's up", so the end is visible as well as audible.
Does the timer keep running if I switch tabs?
Yes. The countdown runs from a real timestamp rather than counting frames, so it stays accurate in a background tab, and the remaining time shows in the tab title.
The hard part isn’t the timer
This page counts down, and that is all it does. Porotimer handles the part that decides whether the session actually works.
Lock away what breaks focus
Choose the apps you're allowed for the session. Porotimer puts everything else behind a wall until the timer ends — which is the one thing a page in a browser tab can never do.
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Breaks that actually rest you
A calm scene and a breathing guide when the sprint ends, instead of five minutes of scrolling. You come back settled rather than scattered.
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See where the hours went
Every sprint and break laid out in order. The day becomes something you can look back on, rather than something you try to remember.
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