Timer or stopwatch apps?.. for note taking

[Bancrofti]

I want to be more efficient with note-taking, and I tend to spend too much time on a slide/page at times, which when you go through a lecture that has ~70 slides, can add up.

Looking at my watch or the computer clock will be too distracting to keep looking up to actually check the time and actually even waste more time. I'm wondering if there's an app or anyone has an idea for how I can set something to beep (or something along those lines) at designated intervals.

I'm hoping to be able to do something like committing a maximum of 1 min. 45 seconds per slide (or page if reading), with a notification at the end of that period, but also a warning notification at the 1 minute, 15 second mark or something along those lines. I did my own searching for it, but was unsuccessful.

So I figured instead of wasting more time I could see if anyone here has heard or used such a technique.

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[Lunasly]

If you have an iPhone you can use the clock app (comes standard) and use the timer. If you are talking about a computer you can just type timer in google and any of those links will work.

 

[theshellyb]

The issue with using just the basic iPhone timer is you have to press "Start timer" each time with the buttons, and that's clearly not the time-saver the OP is looking for.

I think what would actually serve your purposes well is an interval timer that people use for doing circuit workouts. You can set it to ping a sound every minute or so, I think something like http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/interval-timer-for-fitness/id406473568?mt=8 would serve your purposes well.

 

[Bancrofti]

The issue with using just the basic iPhone timer is you have to press "Start timer" each time with the buttons, and that's clearly not the time-saver the OP is looking for.

Exactly

I think what would actually serve your purposes well is an interval timer that people use for doing circuit workouts. You can set it to ping a sound every minute or so, I think something like http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/interval-timer-for-fitness/id406473568?mt=8 would serve your purposes well.

Thank you! Seems like that should have been a common sense alternative. I'm downloading it now for my phone, so hopefully it works well when I test it out tomorrow.