Event triggers

When I need to break my freelance habits and get back into long-form writing I follow the Pomodoro technique using my phone's timer. Because iOS defaults to the last tone used on the timer and I don't want to have my writing interrupted by my morning alarm I set out to find a Pomodoro timer without a subscription. There isn't one. All the available apps are synced with fitness trackers or productivity monitors or tranquility apps (an oxymoron if there ever was one).

All I want is a single-use timer that counts down silently to a configurable alert (a single beep, thank you). I built a shortcut which is okay, but it defaults to the last-used tone (the alarm, again). A good website version requires you to enable pop-ups. Another hunt through Reddit etc is forthcoming.

A few nights ago I sat down early in the morning to write with my headphones on and an ambient track playing which a few minutes later stopped and then stopped again. I didn't need to research why because I knew it would be an issue with Apple Music not playing Bandcamp MP3s (the issue is with Bandcamp's encoder, apparently). So I logged back into Bandcamp, downloaded the tracks as FLAC files and reconverted those to AAC... And then I was able to get back to work.

Anyway, I'm writing.