Features
and shortcuts
Everything Catodoro does, and every key that does it faster. The guide walks through a day with it; this is the reference.
The timer
A pomodoro clock that a browser can’t break.
- Three modes — focus, short break, long break, with auto-start chaining so one runs into the next.
- A deadline, not a tick. The countdown stores an absolute end time rather than counting down, so a refresh, a sleeping laptop or a throttled background tab can’t lose your minutes.
- Picture-in-Picture. Pop the timer out into its own floating window and it stays in sync with the tab it came from.
- Four end sounds — two meows, a chatter and a purr.
Tasks, and the cat you earn
The part that makes the hours add up to something.
- A task list with drag-to-reorder, a session count per task, finish-early, and a guard when you switch tasks mid-session.
- Choose your cat. Every task carries the cat you’re working towards. Finish the session and that’s the one that arrives — not a random one.
- Twelve cats, each with a name, a quote and a personality.
- Real physics. Earned cats are rigid bodies, and the colliders are generated from the live interface — so they land on the timer and pile against your task list rather than against a guess at where it is. Drag them, throw them, and rescue the ones that escape.
Notes and the canvas
Somewhere to put the day as it arrives.
- Sticky notes and lists on an infinite pannable, zoomable canvas. Name them whatever you like.
- Pin or stash anything you don’t need yet, and edge indicators point at whatever has drifted off screen.
- The omnibar — ⌘K flies the camera to any note by name, from anywhere, even mid-sentence.
Notion, the calendar and the CatBook
- Notion. Connect your workspace once and turn Notion pages into tasks from the same keyboard flow. Read-only, you pick the pages, and the tokens never touch the browser.
- A calendar with month, week and day views and task scheduling — draggable and pinnable like any other note.
- The gacha. A daily turn of the crank for a cat you don’t own yet, which then joins the list you can assign to a task.
- The CatBook — the gallery of everyone you’ve collected so far.
Stats
A week you can actually look at.
- Day streaks, total focus time, your busiest hours, and a bar for every day of the week.
- A year heatmap you can walk with the arrow keys.
The extension
For the nights the work has to be done. Catodoro runs as a browser extension as well as a tab, so the timer and the meows follow you across whatever you’re working in.
Your data
- No account needed. Catodoro is fully usable signed out.
- Sign in later and nothing is lost — the cats, tasks and notes you made anonymously migrate to your account on the way in.
- Row-level security on every table.
Shortcuts
⌘ on a Mac, Ctrl everywhere else.
| ⌘K | Open the note search. Works while you’re typing in a note or a list, not only from the canvas. |
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| ⌘P | Open the Notion search. Only once Notion is connected — until then the key stays your browser’s print dialog. |
| ⌘K / ⌘P | Pressed while the other search is open, switches between them instead of closing. |
| ↑↓ | Walk the results in either search. |
| Enter | Open the highlighted result. |
| Tab | Cycle within the open search. |
| ↑↓ | In the stats heatmap, a day at a time within the week. |
| ←→ | In the stats heatmap, a whole week at a time. |
| Home / End | In the stats heatmap, jump to the first or last day. |
| Esc | Close whatever is open — a search, a modal, an editor. |