PIPTIM · ALWAYS ON TOP
15 Minute Timer
There is a reason "just fifteen minutes" actually works.
Countdown timer
Tap the time to change it
PIPTIM · ALWAYS ON TOP
There is a reason "just fifteen minutes" actually works.
Tap the time to change it
One of the few reliable answers to procrastination is work for fifteen minutes, then stop. It is short enough to be hard to refuse, and once you have started you usually keep going. The point is not finishing; it is lowering the cost of beginning.
So a fifteen-minute timer is less a device for ending something than permission to start it. When it rings you decide whether to continue. Stopping is not a failure — it was the deal you made going in.
Standups, clearing one room, working through a backlog of email all sit at this length too. On days when twenty-five feels like too much, this beats the 25 minute timer.
That is the point. Press +1 min to extend, or switch to the 25 minute timer. Fifteen minutes is not a stopping time; it is a starting device.
More often the attendees are the ones who want it short. Say "we finish at 15" at the start and keep the countdown visible, and it is the clock that ends the meeting rather than a person.