Great Solution for Me, Only Minor Issues
This allows me to keep a 59 second timer on every support email I open, read, and take action on. Keeps me moving fast, by encouraging me with feedback on ones I handle in 20 seconds and the progressively escalating sounds of the timers alarm helps to lend urgency when Im taking 60+ seconds. Since I only handle client support when my business partner is on vacation, Im not used to it and it takes me forever - but this app creates an urgency I want to have but cant maintain on my own (my doctor says its insufficient production of nerve- or neuro-adrenaline, or something like that)!
My only issues are that a) it doesnt remember the color scheme/theme that Ive selected, between launches/quits or system reboots; and that b) theres no one button (or better yet would be a hot-key combination, that could be triggered while app isnt in the foreground) to just reset and restart the timer; and also that c) theres no numeric countdown when theres less than a minute left, just goes to "00:00" instead of switching to a "MM:HH" format and counting down from 00:59 to 00:01.
My biggest feature request would be that, ideally, when I finish an email in 20 seconds, Id be able to start it back at 59 seconds, with just one keystroke or click. But now, I have to click the alarm icon to make it end the timer and sound the alarm, then click the pause button (turns to a play button), then click the now play button to start the timer again. Minor issue, and maybe Im the only person who uses it to time repetitive tasks - so it could be no one else would like that feature :-
Regardless of my issues, this app is nice looking, fairly full featured, and a huge blessing for me :)
Thanks so much, Sergey!
-dan
DanRxn about Countdown Timer Gadget