Reasons to use music for timers.
- It's more fun than looking at a normal timer.
- Low fidelity with no numbers. After a few runs through a playlist, you'll know how deep you are by feel, but you won't have the exact minutes unless you've been calculating them. It has a different feel.
- No visuals needed, which is nice if your hands are full or you don't want to be distracted by checking a device.
- Consistent local counts. Timing between songs is hard because of changing BPMs, but internally a song will be more consistent than most people can count. If you need to time a short task relative to other tasks, just count out measures. For example, tracking how long it's been since you stirred something while multitasking cooking. The exact interval doesn't matter, just set a length which feels right the first time and use that as a benchmark after.
- "A song" is typically long enough to be comfortable, but short enough to get you going. Sometimes it's easier to tell yourself you'll break for two songs than 5 minutes.
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Nightly Notes
Today I came across perhaps the only time in my life I could fathom having a use for filtering my music library by BPM. I need to time something short and hands-free. It's inconsistently enough I don't need a timer, but at a high enough precision I can't do it in my head, and long enough that I'm picky about what exactly I'm listening to.
Found a few things at the right pace. Hoping I don't hate them by the end of it.
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