Timer webhooks!
In the same week, a couple of different users messaged me to ask if I would add timer webhooks so that they could automatically have RescueTime turn on & off the Focustime feature (which blocks distracting websites) when the pomodoro timer starts & stops.
So I did it!
I set it up so that you could do the filtering on your end or on Complice’s end. If you just want to get all of the different events and deal with them, use “any”, or “pomo-any”. Or you can pre-aim different timer events to different places by making multiple hooks. I’m planning to add webhooks for task events as well, based on the beeminder arbitrary-task module, which will be awesome.
Ideas for things you can use this for:
start/stop something like focustime to reduce distractions
maybe integrate with tasker somehow to turn your phone to airplane mode
store all timer-finished events in a spreadsheet so you could track which times of day you're working
notify a slack channel that you're working
change your status on some other site/system
hook up an arduino and make a light outside your room turn red or green based on whether you're working or breaking (I've wanted to do this for years)
(and more! what are your ideas?)
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