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Shared by link, no account

Talks that finish
when they were meant to.

One countdown for the speaker, the chair and the room. Share the link, put it on a second screen, and stop being the person who has to interrupt.

Free for any number of people. Or run a timer just for yourself.

✦ The problem

Two timers are not one timer.

Overrunning is rarely deliberate. From the front of a room, time compresses, and the only feedback available is a chair making a face. A countdown the speaker can see, in full screen on a laptop at their feet, fixes it without anybody having to be rude.

✦ How it works

Three steps, no account.

Pick a length and press create

Give it a name if the room needs to know what the clock is for. Add a lead-in of a minute or two if people still have to open the link.

Send the link

It is copied for you. Paste it in the chat, the calendar invite, the slide, or open it on the screen at the front of the room. There is no room code and nothing for anyone to join.

Everyone finishes together

Every browser on the link reads the same countdown rather than keeping its own, so somebody who opens it late sees the time that is genuinely left. Pause it and the whole room stops; add five minutes and the whole room gets them.

✦ Where it earns its keep

What people share a timer for.

Lightning talks

Five minutes with a visible clock is a different event from five minutes on trust.

Conference sessions

Chair and speaker on the same link. The warning is the ring, not a wave.

Pitches and demos

Practise against the real length. Most decks are two minutes too long and nobody finds out until the day.

Q and A

Timebox the questions separately so the last one does not eat the break.

✦ Plainly

One clock, not thirty copies.

The countdown is kept by the server, and every screen in the room is reading it rather than running its own. That is what makes the next three true at once.

A pause everybody sees

Pause, resume, add time or reset, and it lands on every screen within a couple of seconds. Not your copy of the timer, the timer.

A wrong clock cannot break it

Every reply carries the server’s own time, and each browser corrects for the gap. A laptop set four minutes fast still finishes with the room.

Only you can change it

The controls belong to the browser that created the timer, never to the link. Thirty people can hold the link and none of them can stop the lesson.

And still: nobody signs in, there is no room to join and no code to type, no limit on how many people open it, and the only thing stored is a length and whatever you called it — deleted a day after the countdown ends.

✦ Also useful

Other ways to use a shared clock.

group timer shared timer meeting timer classroom timer

Or a plain timer, just for you

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✦ When the meeting ends

A shared clock is easy.
Shared work is the hard part.

The timer is free and always will be. What it cannot do is remember what the twenty minutes decided, or whose job the outcome became.

That is a shared workspace: goals, projects and tasks that belong to the group rather than to whoever created them, assignable to a person, with habits that keep a separate streak for everybody so nobody breaks anyone else’s. One subscription covers five people, and it is on your bill rather than theirs.

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✦ Questions

Shared timers, answered.

Yes. Open the link on the laptop or tablet in front of the speaker and leave the projector on the slides. Because it is a link rather than a device, both are possible at once if you want them.

Yes, one button. The digits and the ring scale to the screen, which is what makes it readable from a lectern or the back of a room.

Yes, a minute or five at a time while it runs, and it moves the end for the whole room rather than restarting the countdown. Only whoever created the timer can do it, so a speaker cannot quietly grant themselves another ten minutes.

The ring is the warning. It empties visibly through the last minutes, which is more useful to a speaker mid-sentence than a single alert at zero would be.

No. Free, no account, no ads.

The clock is the easy half.
Keep the other half somewhere.

EvyOS holds the goals, projects, tasks and habits a shared workspace actually runs on. The timer stays free regardless.

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Talks that finishwhen they were meant to.