5 Minute Timer
The short break between pomodoros.
5 Minute Timer ready. Press start to begin.
Each mark is 15 seconds
Five minutes is the standard pomodoro break — long enough to stand up, refill a glass and look at something further away than your screen, short enough that you do not lose the thread of what you were doing.
What five minutes is good for
The pomodoro break
The five minutes after a 25 minute sprint. Away from the screen, ideally on your feet.
Looking at something far away
The twenty-twenty-twenty rule's bigger cousin, and the cheapest thing you can do for tired eyes.
A five-minute start
The smallest commitment that still counts as beginning. Most sessions that run long started this way.
Steeping and resting
Black tea, a rested steak, dough that needs to relax before it will roll.
Questions
Why is the pomodoro break five minutes?
It is long enough for your attention to actually reset and short enough that you keep the context of the work you were doing. Longer breaks tend to end the session rather than punctuate it.
What should I do during it?
Stand up and look at something further than arm's length. The one thing that does not work is switching to another screen.
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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