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A calm, focused pomodoro timer — plus a one-shot timer and stopwatch. Toolbar countdown, full-page focus view, stats, gentle chimes. Ember is a pomodoro timer that stays out of your way. No accounts, no ads, no tracking — just a quiet, warm place to focus. THE TIMER • Three modes — the pomodoro cycle, a one-shot timer, and a stopwatch. • Toolbar countdown — the badge shows minutes remaining, color-coded by phase, so you never need to open anything to know where you stand. • Compact popup — start, pause, reset, skip, or label your session in one click from the toolbar. • Side panel — keep the timer beside the page you're working on. • Full-page focus view — a large progress ring you can drag like a dial to set the length, zen mode (press z) for just the flame and the time, and a pop-out floating mini timer (picture-in-picture). • Overtime (optional) — focus runs past zero counting up until you end it. • Strict focus (optional) — interrupting a focus session takes a deliberate press-and-hold instead of a stray click. • Global shortcut — Alt+Shift+P starts/pauses from any tab. • Focus on this — select a task's text on any page, right-click, and "Start focus on …" begins a session labeled with it. GENTLE SITE BLOCKING (optional) List your distracting sites and, while focus runs, their tabs rest on a quiet "it can wait" page showing the time left. The moment the session ends — or you pause — the page offers the way back. Blocking is fully opt-in: Chrome asks for the permission only if you enable it, and Ember only ever acts on the sites you list, only while focus runs. STATS THAT STAY YOURS A full dashboard tracks time worked per day: today / week / streak cards, a week·month·year chart with an optional daily-goal line, an hour-of-day "when you focus" skyline, a deletable session ledger, and a year heatmap. Label sessions with what you're working on ("thesis draft") and see a per-label breakdown. Everything lives in local browser storage and can be exported or imported as JSON (plus CSV) — Ember never sees your data. THE QUIET DETAILS • Phase-end notifications with action buttons (start focus, 5 more break minutes) and one gentle reminder if a finished phase sits unstarted. • Lock-aware — locking the machine auto-pauses focus, so the lock screen never counts as work. • Sound — three synthesized chime voices, a 30-second break-end warning, and optional ambient focus sound (ticking · rain · noise). All generated locally; nothing is downloaded. • A daily goal with one quiet cheer when you cross it. • Twelve themes plus an auto light/dark swatch, and a flame accent picker. • Settings sync across your machines; stats stay local. BUILT TO BE TRUSTWORTHY • Open source — the whole extension is on GitHub, so every claim below is something you can read and verify, not just take on trust: https://github.com/souravas/ember-pomodoro-timer • No data collection — nothing ever leaves your machine. • No install-time host permissions. Site blocking asks for its permission only when you turn it on, and works only on the domains you list. • No remote code, no analytics, no network requests. Fonts and sounds are bundled or synthesized locally. • The timer survives browser restarts: it is anchored to a timestamp, not a fragile countdown, so it stays accurate even when Chrome suspends the extension. The pomodoro technique: work in focused sprints (traditionally 25 minutes), then take a short break; every few sprints, take a longer one. Ember keeps the count so you can keep your attention on the work.