HyperTimer

A visual countdown timer designed to require minimal effort to read and provide a reliable time reference. Primarily useful for people suffering from ADHD, but not limited to that group.

Video demonstration and tutorial: https://youtu.be/rmUZ_iem1xw

These are the three design goals that summarize HyperTimer:

• Minimal attention cost - reading the time should be like breathing - continuous and not requiring any effort
• Reliability and persistence - nothing short of a complete hardware failure should make you loose track of time
• A sight to behold - your timer should be a joy to use and to look at, so you want to use it just that little bit more!

Use cases

Task clock You have trouble completing tasks on time, but regular timers are too easy to miss or ignore and don't give you piece of mind

Break clock You want to take a break from work/study etc, but you tend to drag these out and break your schedule

Live event countdown You're preparing to start a livestream at a given time You've started a livestream but need to end it at a certain time

If you find any others, let me know so I can add them here :)

Features

• Countdown timer that can be set between 15 minutes and 48 hours
• Always on top, semi-transparent focusless window that blends with your desktop and becomes a natural part of it
• Large smoothly animated, colorful progress bar to provide relative time reference readable with peripheral vision alone
• Large explicit text mentioning hours, minutes and seconds left to remove confusion and lower read attention cost
• Lockable position and width on your screen - you can always count on your time piece to be where you expect it
• Prevention from accidental closing or resetting of the timer - certain actions require holding down a button to activate
• Timer persistence, so you can continue counting down after re-starting the app or your computer
• Crash recovery to ensure your time reference will never get lost, even if your OS crashes or you loose power
• Variable window width, so you can make the timer as large or small as you want Compact, pleasant and animated interface with custom-designed icons to make the interface small and slick
• Anti-aliasing for the progress bar, making it smoothly animate with subpixel precision, to avoid distracting pixel jumps
• Animated "time over" state with optional sound that will ensure you won't miss it