A tock is like a pomodoro but 45 minutes instead of 25.

The idea is that you want to pick things that take as long as possible without going over 45 minutes.

1. Tag it :done when you finish
2. Tag it :smac iff you get TagTime-pinged off task; that counts as -2 tocks!
3. It counts as a fractional tock if you finish early, eg, 30min = 2/3 of a tock
4. It counts as half a tock if you exceed 45min, whether or not you tag it done
5. Tag it :void for a legit interruption or forgetting to stop the timer

• each hour that >1 of us does a tock we each put $2 in the pot
• if you don't finish in 45 minutes you forfeit your ante and get nothing
• of those remaining, whoever takes longest to finish gets the pot (future idea: split the pot proportionally to how long each person took)
• if no one finished in 45 minutes, the pot rolls over for next time
• you have to mark the tock as :smac if you get tagtime-pinged while off task

(original contest was closed and paid on 2007.06.27)

1. Copy settings.pl.template to settings.pl and mutatis mutandis
2. Create a symlink, eg: ln -s prj/tocks/settings.pl ~/.tocksrc
3. Put something like this in your crontab:
   00 * * * * $HOME/prj/tocks/launch.pl
59 8 * * * rm -f $HOME/prj/tocks/.tocklock

If you want to start tocks manually, you may need to edit out the line that starts something like $ENV{DISPLAY} = ":0.0";
(Don't know what that crap is about; only an issue for bsoule.)