Countdown, Timer & Alarm Clock software with very specific features

Question

Looking for the following features, or help creating them myself, in an as small an amount of separate programs as possible.

OS: Windows 10.
Android would also be interesting, but strictly optional, or, (undesirably and as last resort): as an alternative.

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Desired features:

(Not in order of priority, that comes later)

Main:

1. Alarm Clock:
   • Multiple alarms
   • Repeat function (Daily, Weekly, Weekdays, Thursdays etc.)

2. Countdown: You set either a

     a) period (say 4hrs), or  
     b) deadline (clock time AND/OR date) <-- Can be an extension of the "Alarm" feature.
   

   ...and it continually shows you how many days, hours, minutes, seconds are left till you reach 00:00:00

   • Multiple countdowns (I want multiple ones running at the same time)
3. Timers/Stopwatch: You click a button and it starts counting the amount of time elapsed.
   • Multiple Timers going at the same time

Other:

• SAVING \ LOGGING FUNCTIONS: I want to the app to log:
  • Timers especially (Alarm is a given):
    • Start time/date: When I started the timer
    • Time timed: The duration before I stopped the timer
    • Name: I want to be able to name my timer, especially if you'll have multiple ones running
  • If the Countdown is to take a deadline on a further date, obviously it needs to save said date so the countdown can survive a PC and/or Application reboot.
• ALWAYS VISIBLE TIMER STATUS:
  For example, the timer status is continuously reflected in the TASKBAR BUTTON, or (more annoying) a minimalistic "always on top" window with transparency.

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Priority:

It's a fantasy to get all of these features in one program, I think, so my biggest priorities, in order, are:

• Countdown and Timer, "Always visible"
• Multiple of each at the same time
• (Exigent, but I'd really like): Log at least the start time of each active timer

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TL;DR: There is none. Just skip what's below this line

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SIDE-NOTE: I have the utmost basic knowledge of Python, which I acquired in a few days, and just enough to create a script to help me import specific information from an online dictionary into an excel spreadsheet. So if this is something I can easily create myself, I'm okay with some pointers on how to go about teaching myself to do that (= a reference to modules I'll need, and I'll figure out how to make them work).

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I currently use a chrome app called Timer Tab.

Pros:

• Does Countdown, Alarm, and Timer/Stopwatch
• Keeps running (counting) if Chrome browser or even the actual app's window is closed
• Countdown/Timer status visible in Taskbar

Cons:

• Can only run one of the three functions at a time
• Shockingly, it only allows you to specify an online YouTube video link as sound for the alarm
• None of the other features I mentioned

Answer 1

I would strongly suggest taking a look at implementing this in Python with the wxPython library for GUI elements. wxPython is a python binding for the C++ GUI library they are both Free, Gratis, Open Source & Cross Platform.

Note that if you are using Python 2.7 you need the downloads from here but for Python 3.5 you will have to use the wxPython project Phoenix installation.

Be sure to install and try out the wxPython Docs & Demos especially the demos - they show you what you can do with the library. For python 2.7 this is available on the main download page but for python 3.x & phoenix you will need to fetch from github.

For date/time & time delta calculations check out the python builtin datetime.datetime and datetime.timedelta classes.

I would suggest storing the start/stop/duration information in either ini file format or json, builtin libraries exist for both but you could also consider using pickle to save the information.