A countdown timer extension for Alfred.app

A simple countdown timer command for Alfred.app that uses Mountain Lion User Notifications.

The extension is described in closer detail on my blog.

Benefits

• Helps you make great tea.
• Solves your Pomodoro needs.
• Uses Mountain Lion's User Notifications to tell you when time's up.
• Plays a non-intrusive alarm sound.
• Allows you to run multiple timers at the same time.
• Allows you to add an optional label to the timer, e.g. "Laundry is done!". Thanks to Alexander Lehmann for the suggestion.
• Shows you how to write Alfred extensions in Python.

Installation

Depending on whether you're running Alfred 1 or Alfred 2 you need different versions of the extension. Please also note that this extension / workflow requires OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) or greater to work.

Alfred 2

• Download Timer.alfredworkflow
• Double-click Timer.alfredworkflow to install the extension.

Alfred 1

• Download Timer.alfredextension
• Double-click Timer.alfredextension to install the extension.

To use this extension you need Alfred.app for OS X and the Alfred PowerPack.

Usage

• The general syntax is timer [minutes] [optional:title]
• timer 5 sets a countdown timer that goes off after 5 minutes.
• timer 0:30 or timer 0.5 sets a timer that goes off after 30 seconds.
• timer 40 Laundry is done! adds an optional title to the timer.
• timer displays usage information.

##Meta

Daniel Bader – @dbader_org – mail@dbader.org

Distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE.txt for more information.

https://github.com/dbader/alfred-countdown-timer