My "focus system" for years: a browser tab labelled Pomodoro that I muted on day two, and the unshakeable confidence that I would take a break eventually. Turns out "eventually" arrives around hour four, right after the neck starts filing complaints.

The problem was never the timer. It's that every timer politely suggests a break and then lets me click "skip" like the responsible adult I clearly am not. So I ended up building a tiny desktop one that just... forces it. Work block ends, break block starts, no negotiation, no snooze to abuse.

It's a small Tauri app: set work/break minutes, a warning sound before the switch, and that's the whole feature list. No streaks, no accounts, no "productivity score" to feel bad about. Cross-platform, open source, does one thing.

Posting it here mostly so the next version of me can't pretend the tool didn't exist: https://github.com/p32929/pomota