PIPTIM · ALWAYS ON TOP
2 Hour Timer
One exam section, one film, one free-parking limit. Two hours is the base unit of long work.
Countdown timer
Tap the time to change it
PIPTIM · ALWAYS ON TOP
One exam section, one film, one free-parking limit. Two hours is the base unit of long work.
Tap the time to change it
A two-hour timer behaves differently from a short one. You barely check it — until the last twenty minutes, when every check happens at once. That is the stretch where an exam needs its answers tidied and a parking limit needs you back at the car.
So that those minutes are not spent hunting for a clock, open the PiP window at the start and park it in a corner. It keeps its position for the whole two hours.
The longer the timer, the more can go wrong around it. Browser power saving, a closed tab, a restarted machine — none of it is under a web timer's control. For anything with a real cost attached, set an operating system alarm as well. And if you would rather split the time than sit through it, two rounds of the 50/10 focus cycle covers the same ground.
Because it works from the stored end time, the countdown does not drift while the tab is hidden or the display sleeps and wakes. It cannot survive a closed tab or a laptop going into sleep with the lid shut. For exams, parking and anything else where missing the end costs money, set a phone alarm as well.
When the PiP window is open or the tab is in front, PipTim asks the browser to keep the screen on where that is supported. The operating system's power settings take precedence, so for an exam rehearsal check the display-off timeout beforehand.