Work Timer — Timebox Your Working Day

A free online work timer for getting real work done between the meetings, messages and interruptions. Start a focus session, do one thing until the chime, take a short break, repeat. The pop-out button floats the countdown above your editor, browser or documents, so the session stays visible while you work.

Timeboxing in an office day

Knowledge work fills whatever time it's given, and the modern workday gives it fragments. Timeboxing pushes back: you assign a task to a fixed box of time and give it nothing else. Slack and email live between the boxes, batched, instead of leaking into everything. Even two or three protected sessions before lunch routinely outproduce a whole reactive afternoon.

A practical setup

• Block focus time in your calendar so the boxes actually exist.
• Pick a session length that matches the work — 25 minutes for shallow tasks, 45–90 for deep work.
• Pop the timer out into its always-on-top window and go full screen in your actual work app.
• Keep a scratchpad for intrusive to-dos: write them down, return to the task.

Frequently asked questions

What about interruptions I can't refuse?

Pause the timer, handle it, and restart the session rather than resuming — a session is about unbroken attention, and the honest restart keeps the habit meaningful. If interruptions are constant, shorter sessions survive the chaos better than long ones.

How many deep work sessions fit in a workday?

Three to four hours of genuinely deep work is an excellent day for most people. Spend the rest on the shallow-but-necessary work — and let the timer mark the difference between the two.