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Tameno allows you to set ever-repeating, “tapping” timers. This is perfect for repetitive tasks, like watering your plants for 30 seconds each, or brushing each side of each quadrant of your teeth for 10 seconds, or stretching different parts of your body 15 seconds each, or meditation, or yoga. [insert your use-case here].

Tameno running on an Apple Watch

What’s New In Tameno 1.1?

+ Complications and Widgets for your Apple Watch (requires watchOS 10)

The complications and widgets on your Watch let you easily start your last used interval, or just launch the app.

+ iOS Widgets on your Lock Screen

Pictured above, the circular “Last Used Interval” widget and the “set an interval on-the-fly” widget are displayed in all their glory, on an eye-shattering yellow background!

+ Intervals in the Widget can now be changed more easily

As seen here with the widget on Mac (but it also applies to the iOS widget, of course), you can now change either minutes or seconds, allowing you to much more comfortably set the interval you need.

+ Bug fixes, like properly displaying intervals in the iOS’ app’s Quick Actions menu

Links and Availability

Tameno is a universal one-time purchase on the App Stores, so a single purchase allows you to use the app on your Apple Watches, iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple TVs.
It costs USD 3.99 / EUR 3,99 / GBP 3.99 and is available in English and German. It requires watchOS 9.4, iOS 16.6, iPadOS 16.6, macOS 13.5, and tvOS 16.6.
Complications and Widgets on Apple Watch require watchOS 10. The interactive widget requires macOS 14 and iOS 17.

I hope you’ll enjoy the app and the update!
Should you have any questions or feedback, please don’t hesitate to contact me!

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With Tameno, you set auto-repeating, “tapping” timers – the perfect companion for repetitive tasks.
It’s available for your Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV as a universal binary – always ready, wherever you might need it.

Set up an interval between 2 seconds and 20 minutes, and Tameno lets you know each time it elapses (by tapping you, by sound, or by screen flashing), and then re-sets itself to alert you again.

Posts in this Series

Part IHello, Tameno
Part IITameno on Your Apple Watch
Part IIITameno on Your iPhone and iPad
Part IVTameno on Your Mac
Part VTameno on Your Apple TV

Part I – Hello, Tameno

Tameno is the perfect companion for repetitive tasks.
The following real-life use cases are what made me want an app like this in the first place:

Watering my Hedge Plants

I don’t have any fancy gadgets to water my plants – I do it manually with a hose. And to water them equally, I used to count down in my head from 30 – easily getting distracted by neighbors talking to me, my fiancée telling me something, or the random airplane flying by.
With Tameno on my Apple Watch, I set a self-repeating timer for 30 seconds and start watering. Now, my watch vibrates every 30 seconds, telling me to move on to the next plant. And I can even partake in conversations now!

Doing Stretches

Whenever I feel my back tense up, I like to do some stretches. Before, I’d count in my head while stretching.
With Tameno on my Apple TV or Apple Watch, I can concentrate on the stretch, instead of having to worry about how long to hold it.

Brushing my Teeth

You know how you’re supposed to brush each side of each quadrant of your teeth for 10 seconds (at least, that’s how the math works out judging by my electric toothbrush’s 30-second timer)?
Well, I used to count the 10 seconds in my head, most of the time going too short or too long.
With Tameno on my Apple Watch, I just get buzzed every 10 seconds and I know I’m ready to move on to the next section.

Advancing a Photo Slideshow

I wanted to show my family a couple of photos from a vacation, but for some reason, Apple TV no longer was able to automatically play back what I had prepared, so I had to advance manually.
With Tameno on my Apple Watch, I just set a 7 second timer and we were all good.

The 20-20-20 Rule

There’s this idea that when you’re working in front of a computer display all day long, it’s good for your eyes when every 20 minutes, you take 20 seconds to look 20 meters into the distance.
With Tameno on my Mac or iPad, I set up that timer and don’t have to worry about it anymore.

Up Next

In Part II, we’ll look at how you can use Tameno on your Apple Watch!

Links and Availability

Tameno is a universal one-time purchase on the App Stores, so a single purchase allows you to use the app on your Apple Watches, iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple TVs.
It costs USD 3.99 / EUR 3,99 / GBP 3.99 and is available in English and German. It requires watchOS 9.4, iOS 16.6, iPadOS 16.6, macOS 13.5, and tvOS 16.6.
Complications and Widgets on Apple Watch require watchOS 10. The interactive widget requires macOS 14 and iOS 17.

If you have any feedback, questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact me – I’d love to hear from you.

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Yoink for Mac v3.6.91 is now available, containing a couple of minor improvements and bug fixes.

What is Yoink?

Yoink appears at the edge of your screen when you begin to drag something, allowing you to place it there so you can more easily and comfortably navigate to the destination of your files.

Yoink in Action

Not only can you drag files to it, but also app-content like images from websites, text snippets, urls, and more.

“This app saved tons of hours for me and boosted my productivity. Totally recommended.”

Nebulan, Mac App Store

What’s New in Yoink v3.6.91?

  • It improves the app’s internal handling of shared and dragged files
  • Reduces the amount of memory the favicon fetcher subprocess (for urls placed in Yoink) uses
  • Fixes a menu item’s case from lower-case to Capitalized Case
  • Fixes a bug where Yoink could wait forever for a file preview icon to be created, even if it failed
  • Fixes a bug where sometimes Yoink would “steal” focus from other apps

Availability and Links

Yoink is a one-time purchase on the Mac App Store, or available as part of a Setapp subscription.
A free, 28-day trial is available on the website. The app is available in English, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Italian and Portuguese.

Yoink Website (+ free trial)
Yoink on the Mac App Store (one-time purchase)
Eternal Storms Software Productivity Mac App Store Bundle (includes Yoink, ScreenFloat and Transloader at ~25% off)
Yoink on Setapp (dozens of apps, one subscription)

Yoink for Mac Usage Tips

Yoink is also available for iPhone and iPad

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