Beeminding pomodoros with strict workflow

Akrasia
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This is perfect-- I was already using Strict Workflow for my occasional halfhearted pomodoros, and was longing for a way for Beeminder to know automatically that I was doing them. I’ve cheerfully set it up!

This has taken care of half of my pomodoro dream, but the other big thing I’ve really wanted to have was an automatic way to tweet at the end of a pomodoro what I was working on. (I have a very boring “data” twitter that feeds into the iPhone app Momento, and posting stuff there for posterity is the absolute best way to keep myself accountable.) I think I can make this extension send its comments to twitter at the same time that it sends them to beeminder, but… I am currently making a lot of guesses.

My guesses:

  1. This program is written in JavaScript.
  2. I should put the “tweet now” bit of code as a second jQuery ffffunction (?) within if (this.mostRecentMode == 'work') {
  3. I should use the twitter API to figure out what to put there? Or… this codebird library?
  4. I need to find one thing to log me in to twitter, and one thing to actually post the tweet? Maybe since this file lives locally I’ll manually enter my twitter username and password? And maybe the tweeting will be a function I write one place and then call within the if statement?

Unfortunately, this is as far as my English degree can get me. I’d really appreciate any pointers anyone can give me!

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