What is a doan you may ask? In Zen practice it is the person responsible for ringing the bells at the beginning and end of a meditation. Like a traditional doan, the PocketDoan meditation timer informs the user when to begin and end a session. It frees one from having to keep track of time, and thus allows one to more fully engage in one's practice. Even though doan is a Zen Buddhist term, this application has no particular tie to Zen. PocketDoan is quite flexible and can be adapted to many styles of meditation. It supports both single and multi-stage sessions. Additionally, a variety of alert types are provided with varying degrees of discreteness (audio, visual, and vibration). This makes PocketDoan suitable for both solo and group meditation sessions.
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denisellen: Works great. I now use it for my timer for sitting. Could use it for any reason you need a timer. Nice sounds, too.
griffinca: Great for lots more than sitting, but excellent for that also. Wonderful to have a random minder alert option. Also nice option to have the Chimes as RaineJen mentions. It can do quarter hours (wonder if it has been updated since his review).
Pagnaa: It one of the best programs-- and free one can ever get.
nucleus: Excellent application! Great for routines, meeting..
coffmanbs: Great application. I practice Kundalini style yoga and like having the option for a repeated 1 or 2 minute timer. Also nice for some of the yin yoga where I hold the pose for awhile. It's an app that does exactly what I want it to do, is easy to use and doesn't add on a lot of bells and whistles that I don't need.
RaineJen: Very cool. I like that it can chime the hours, half hours, and every 5, 7.5, 10, or 20 minutes during a specified part of the day. But why not every quarter hour?
....As a musician, I'm planning to use the session timers to set up a more efficient practice routine for each of my instruments (piano, violin, viola). I also forsee a use for timing Boggle games....
karenct: A wonderful app, and a great tool in my meditation practice. It's flexible and offers a variety of tones. When I initially tried it on my Treo 650, I was amazed that it's freeware... it's that good!
haips: Great application!!! I would rate it 10 if it allows to enter number of seconds instead of choosing from pre-define list of 00, 15, 20, 30, 40, 45 seconds in Custom Duration. Thanks for the great work.
Southpaw018: I don't meditate myself, but this thing is darn handy for everything from exercise sessions to timing cooking :)
jneff2600: Great app. I used to use BigClock, but it's not compatible with my new Treo 650. This is much better for timing meditation sessions.
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Version History
Version 3.4.1
- Now supports up to 40intervals per session.
- New Utilities menu item with 3 options:
- o Move - built-in .wav sounds to a memory card/drive (frees main memory).
- o Delete - built-in .wav sounds (if they aren't support or desired)(frees memory).
- o Create - /PDoan directory on memory cards and drives (for playing any .wav file).
- New Hardkey Only key mode (ignores screen taps when running).
- New Random chime interval (rings on the hour and randomly in between).
- Vibration support for Treo 680, 700p, and 755p models.
- Vibration support for StyleTap® platform (emulator for Windows Mobile devices) * New single .prc distribution file.
- Various bugfixes
v3.3.0
- New custom per interval minder triggers.
- New seesion loop count selector in session preferences.
- New running screen background color selector to global prefererences.
- Added halfway minder trigger type.
- Added 2 new vibration minder alerts (they work on Tungsten, m5xx, pre-OS5 treos, and kyocera devices).
- Expanded minder alert list to include all interval alerts.
- Added high resolution font for initial delay countdown.
- Fixed double alert at session end when last alert was long (>14 seconds).
Version 3.2.0
- Hourly Chimes
- Can ring every 60, 30, 20, 15, 10 minutes, etc..
- Two alert types: hourly and non-hourly.
- Can set start and end times for the day.
- 3 New volume levels:
- Alarm Pref (follows palm pref setting)
- .wav 125%, and .wav 150% (volume overdrive for .wav files)
- Vibration alerts enhanced for Kycera devices.
- New key shortcuts from main screen.
- Improved power saving for Treo and non-Palm OS5 devices.
- Various minor bugfixes.
Version 3.1.0
- Support for running on Windows Mobile™ devices with StyleTap® emulation (fixed sound & graphics issues).
- Two new sounds: mu-yü (mokugyo) and tingsha.
- Exiting pause & blocking dialogs now suspends PocketDoan until relaunched.
- Pause and blocking dialogs now have menus with items for changing the current interval, restarting the session, and exiting PocketDoan.
- New main menu option for starting a session at any interval.
- New seconds field in custom interval time dialog.
- 5-way right on main screen now pops menu.
- Various updates to graphics.
- Sound bug effecting some Treo 600's fixed.
- Various minor bugfixes.
Version 3.0.1
- Fixed sound capabilities detection bug effecting some 2-button Zire devices.
- Fixed erratic screen on-off behavior during session runs on some OS5 devices.
- Fixed incompatibility issue with RecoEcho.
Version 3.0.0
- Can play .wav files (including voice recordings) from memory cards and flash drives.
- Fixed sound preference overwrite bug effecting some OS5 devices.
Version 2.2.0 (26 Oct 2005)
- Added new flute, lark, & bong sounds.
- Fix for 1 minute auto-off bug effecting default auto-off mode (could play alerts twice).
Version 2.1.2 (bugfix release)(9/24/2005)
- Vibration alerts on Treo 600 & 650 now work.
- Improved quality of sounds for T|3 & T|E2 devices (maybe LifeDrive too).
- Notification alarms (for other app's) now work properly when an end-of-interval/session dialog is popped.
Version 2.1.1 (bugfix release)(9/1/2005)
- Added new Thunder sound.
- Fixed bug where changing default duration in the Global Preferences panel would cause crashes (all OS versions).
- Fixed bug where changing duration of an interval would cause crashes (pre-OS4.0 only).
Version 2.1.0
- Custom durations now have a resolution down to 15 seconds (in steps of 15 & 20 seconds).
- Total session time now shown on the edit screen.
- New Now/End time selector (tap time on main screen).
- Now supports 5-way navigator on Treo 600/650, T|5, T|E2, LifeDrive, & Zodiac devices.
- Vibration support for Treo 180/270/300 devices.
- VibeL (long vibrate) minder alert added.
- When PocketDoan is mapped to a hardkey, that key can now be used to start the current session.
- Pausing and blocking dialogs now have red/green buttons.
- New high resolution bitmaps.
- Many minor improvements (see history log for full details)
Features
- Single and multi-stage meditation sessions.
- Each stage can be assigned a unique time duration and alert.
- All stages can be viewed and configured from a single edit screen.
- Can have more than one session (thousands actually).
- Large screen buttons for stylus-free (finger) starting and stopping of sessions.
- Analog progress wheel.
- Various audio (bells, gongs, birds, notes, etc), vibration, and LED alerts.
- Five volume levels (including "off" and "whisper" modes).
- Power saving: Device and screen can turn off to conserve batteries.
- Stages can be set to block upon completion requiring user input to move to the next stage.
- Support for 5-way navigator and jog dial controls.
- Freeware.
ZIP file
PRC file