Marcin Borkowski: Recent Changes

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2025-10-27

15:20 UTC (new) (history) 2025-10-27 Org mode burst timer . . . . mbork – Preview: Org mode has two built-in timers – the “relative timer” (which is basically a stopwatch – it starts with 0 and counts up), useful for taking meeting minutes with an indication of when things were discussed, and a “countdown timer” (which is, well, a countdown timer – you tell it a duration, it counts down from it, and rings a bell when it gets to zero). What I sometimes miss is the following feature. I’d like to have some kind of timer which would tell me when a given amount of time passed, but then it would keep running. For instance, let’s assume that I want to write this blog post for at least 25 minutes, but also measure the time I spend doing it even if I keep writing for longer.