2 Minute Timer
The two-minute rule, timed.
2 Minute Timer ready. Press start to begin.
Each mark is 15 seconds
Two minutes is the threshold in David Allen's two-minute rule: if a task takes less than this, do it now rather than filing it. Timing it is how you find out whether that is true or whether you have been telling yourself a story.
What two minutes is good for
The two-minute rule
Anything you could finish before this runs out should not go on a list at all.
Teeth, properly
The dentist's two minutes, which is roughly twice what most people actually do.
A plank you will remember
Long past the point where it stops being about the muscle.
Questions
What is the two-minute rule?
If a task will take less than two minutes, do it immediately instead of capturing it for later — the overhead of tracking it costs more than doing it.
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.
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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