Use Google search like online timer

learn about easy search command, which will let you use Google as online timer to help remind you of any upcoming tasks.

Use Google as online timer

You need a simple timer to remind you of upcoming tasks like picking up a laundary, making this phone call to your client or for gluing the Pomodoro technique. There are good Web applications, such as e.ggtimer.com, which allow you to quickly create countdown timers in the browser, but you probably don't need them anymore.

This is because you can now set online timers inside Google itself by typing in the search box timer in the following format (the word "set" is optional):

timer to set the timer or for

You can use a combination of the hours, minutes and seconds. For example, you can use the search command to set the timer for 20 seconds or timer to 2 minutes 1:0 and timer will spring into action. When the time is over, your browser plays the sound.

One more thing. Instead of setting the time in the search command, you can simply use the search term ' timer ' in Google and then manually set the timer.

This tip is courtesy of Lifehacker

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