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Pomodoro Timer for Freelancers

As a freelancer, your time is your product. But without structure, hours slip away between admin tasks, client emails, and context-switching between projects. Pomodorian gives you a framework: AI breaks down your projects into focused sessions, and the analytics heatmap shows exactly how productive each day was.

Why Pomodorian?

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AI Session Planner

Describe your goal, get a structured task list with time estimates. Supports 8 languages.

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Ambient Sounds

5 layerable sounds: rain, café, lo-fi, forest, fireplace. All free, individual volume controls.

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Focus Analytics

GitHub-style contribution heatmap, daily focus stats, and streak tracking.

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Keyboard Shortcuts

Space to start/pause, 1/2/3 to switch modes, S for settings, R for analytics.

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Private by Design

All your data stays in your browser. No account, no cloud, no tracking.

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Dark & Light Mode

Beautiful glassmorphism design with smooth animations. Customize your theme.

How to Get Started

1. Open Pomodorian: no download, no account needed. Works in any browser.

2. Plan with AI: click the AI planner, describe your goal, and get a structured task list in seconds.

3. Start focusing: hit Start, put on ambient sounds, and work through your tasks one pomodoro at a time.

4. Track your progress: check your analytics to see your focus patterns and build a consistency streak.

Separating Billable Focus From Admin Work

Freelance days blur together because invoicing, client emails, and actual paid work all compete for the same hours with no boundary between them. Running Pomodoro sessions only for billable client work, and leaving admin tasks outside the timer entirely, makes the split visible: you start to see exactly how many focused hours a project actually took versus how much time evaporated in your inbox.

Planning Multiple Client Projects in One Day

Switching between three clients in an afternoon is where freelancers lose the most time to context-switching. Describe each project's next step to the AI planner separately and run the resulting sessions back to back, so each client gets a defined block instead of your attention drifting between all three at once, and a new client's kickoff work does not quietly eat the time you owed an existing one.

Proving Your Hours With a Heatmap

The analytics heatmap and session history give you a record of focused time per day, useful for your own rate-setting, and a quick sanity check when a project ran over budget and you want to know whether it was genuinely more work or just more context-switching, without having to reconstruct the week from memory or a scattered set of invoices.

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