Flux

Flux is a flexible timer for establishing your working rhythm.

Background

Psychology defines flow as the mental state in which you are fully immersed in an activity. This is sometimes referred to as being "in the zone." Managing your flow is an important part of optimizing your productivity.

Over the years, three different work rhythms have emerged in pursuit of managing flow: Pomodoro, Desktime, and Ultradian.

1. Pomodoro utilizes 25 minutes of work with a 5 minute break.
2. Desktime utilizes 52 minutes of work with a 17 minutes break.
3. Ultradian utilizes 90 minutes of work with an extended break.

This extension provides a timer that can be configured to operate at any of these rhythms.

Tip: This blog post provides a great overview of these work rhythms.

Getting Started

To get started, activate this extension by running the VS Code command Flux.

Hint: To run a command in VS Code hit cmd/ctrl + shift + p

This will create an item on the left side of your status bar. Click the item when you are ready to begin the timer.

Features

Pausing

Clicking the timer while it is running will pause/unpause it.

Configure your working rhythm

Flux provides a rhythm setting that will allow you to select between the Pomodoro, Desktime, and Ultradian rhythms.

Requirements

This extension is designed to work right out of the box.

Release Notes

Flux is in public beta. We are hard at work creating the best experience possible for this extension. If you have any feedback, feel free to submit an issue to this repository.

0.0.1

Initial release of Flux

License

Flux is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE for details.

Attribution

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