Notifications and Sounds
When they come
A notification comes when a session's time is up:
| When | It says | Sound |
|---|---|---|
| A focus session ends | "Pomodoro completed. Time to relax" | Pomodoro Completed |
| A focus session ends, a long break next | "Pomodoro completed. Time to have a long break" | Pomodoro Completed |
| The focus session that reaches your daily goal ends | "Congratulations! Your completed your daily pomodoro goal" | Daily Goal Completed |
| A break ends | "Break completed. Start new timer?" | Break Completed |
Its button starts what comes next: Relax starts the break, Resume starts the next focus session. A session started this way has no task.
Pausing or stopping a session cancels its notification.
On iPhone and iPad
The notifications are the iPhone's own, and arrive with the app closed or the iPhone locked. Allow them when Pomodorome asks, or later in the iPhone's Settings → Notifications → Pomodoro Me.
Touch and hold a notification for its buttons:
- Relax or Resume starts the next session, without opening the app.
- Remind in : 5 minutes brings the notification back five minutes later. The timer goes on as it was.
Tap the notification to open the app. While the app is open, the notification doesn't show.
On the Mac
The Mac shows a notice of its own, above other windows, and plays a sound. Pick how in Settings → Notifications → Notification:
- Small, the one it starts with: a short notice at the top right of the screen, with Close and the button of the next session.
- Large: a larger notice at the top of the screen, with Close, Remind in (1, 2 or 5 minutes) and the button of the next session.
- None: no notice, only the sound.
Picking one shows a sample. A notice stays until you click a button, and goes away by itself when you start the next session another way.
The notices come from the app, so Pomodorome must be running: it is in the menu bar.
Sounds
Pick a sound for each kind of notification: Pomodoro Completed, Break Completed and Daily Goal Completed.
The sounds are Default, Attention Seeker, Chimes Glassy, Consequence, Definite, Good Morning, Happy Ending, New Year, Open Ended, Slow Spring Board and To The Point, or No sound. Picking one plays it. Default is the system's alert sound.
Ticking on the Mac
The Mac can tick while the timer runs. In Settings → Notifications → Ticking:
- Focus and Break: Tick, Watch or No sound, the one it starts with.
- Focus Volume and Break Volume set how loud, once you pick a sound.
Ticking stops on pause and when the session's time is up.