Time & Productivity

Time is one of the few resources everyone has the same amount of, which is exactly why these three tools focus on making time visible in ways it usually isn't — as a dollar figure, as a countdown you can actually see, or as a clear picture of what time it is somewhere else before you schedule around it.

The Meeting Cost Calculator turns attendee salaries and meeting length into an actual dollar cost, including a live ticking timer for meetings in progress — useful for questioning whether a recurring meeting is worth what it costs. The Timezone Converter handles the genuinely tricky part of scheduling across regions: daylight saving time, which shifts at different times (or not at all) depending on the country, using your browser's own timezone database rather than a fixed offset that would be wrong half the year. The Focus Timer implements the Pomodoro technique — structured focus intervals with built-in breaks — for anyone who works better against a visible countdown than an open-ended block of time.

Each tool is meant to be used repeatedly rather than once: the meeting cost tool during actual meetings, the timezone converter every time a cross-region call needs scheduling, and the focus timer as a running part of a work session.

A common pairing: run the Meeting Cost Calculator against a recurring meeting on your calendar to see its true annual cost, use that number to justify shortening or canceling meetings that aren't earning their keep, and reclaim some of that freed-up time with the Focus Timer for actual heads-down work instead — a small change in how meetings are scheduled can free up more focused time than any productivity technique applied on top of an already-overbooked calendar.