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 omnibarK 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.
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.

Use Catodoro now