Pomodoro in KDE

README.md

I use a great widget focus-plasmoid (KDE store) for Pomodoro-driven work on KDE. There are no prominent alternatives so far.

The work happens on a different virtual desktop (or activity).

• When focus starts, the virtual desktop with working applications gets switched on.
• When focus ends, a message box asks for a short description of what is done in the past period (when it is still in the context), then a daily report is shown as a popup and the virtual desktop gets changed.
• A few seconds of the sleep time is to avoid confusion and prepare to get switched after a dong sound.
• The report gets also saved in a folder along the script for every day and can be reviewed later.

The following scripts for "Start focus" and "End focus" settings provide the additional functionality.

end.sh

#!/bin/bash

sleep 3

DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"

cd $DIR
month=$(date '+%Y-%m')
day=$(date '+%d')
logfile=logs/$month/$day.txt
mkdir -p logs/$month

if [ -f "$logfile" ]; then
    lines=`wc -l $logfile | cut -f1 -d' '`
else 
    lines=0
fi

lines=$((lines+1))
report=$(kdialog --title "Pomodoro report" --inputbox "What have you done in this focus?")
if [ ! -z "$report" ]
then
    echo "$lines) $report" >> $logfile
fi

qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin setCurrentDesktop 1
# if using KDE Activities
# kactivities-cli --set-current-activity `kactivities-cli --list-activities | grep Default | cut -d' ' -f2`

logs=$(cat $logfile)
cat $logfile | xargs -0 -I{} kdialog --passivepopup {} 10

start.sh

#!/bin/bash

sleep 3
# if using KDE Activities
# kactivities-cli --set-current-activity `kactivities-cli --list-activities | grep Development | cut -d' ' -f2`
qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin setCurrentDesktop 2

I had some script like this years ago for gnome - using zenity. I was searching for some time for something simple like this. Nice combination, thank you.