Aug 12, 20268 min readElif Aksoy
Morning Person: Can Anyone Actually Become One?
Genes set a range, not a cage. Here's what actually shifts your body clock earlier — and the alarm habit that makes waking up early finally stick.
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Practical guides on starting the day well, sleep science, and focus habits — built around the tools on this site: the alarm clock, timer, and Pomodoro. Each post explains one technique, cites a source where one exists, and links to the exact tool page it references. New posts arrive roughly every one to two weeks; older ones get revised whenever a tool changes.
Aug 7, 20268 min readElif Aksoy
Egg Timer: How Long Do You Boil an Egg?
Perfect jammy yolk or sad grey ring? It's 90 seconds apart. A free online timer nails every egg — here are the exact minutes.
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Phone Alarm: Why Does It Keep You in Bed?
Your alarm and your biggest distraction are the same device. Move the alarm across the room and watch the morning doomscroll disappear.
Read article →Jul 30, 20268 min readElif Aksoy
Military Method: How to Fall Asleep in 2 Minutes ?
You're not lazy — you just never learned to fall asleep on command. The military method gets you there in about two minutes, and a trusted alarm handles the rest.
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Morning routines, focus, and small productivity systems
This covers morning routines on the sleep and alarm side, and staying focused on the timer and Pomodoro side. Waking near the end of a sleep cycle instead of the middle feels much easier, a pattern described in the research on sleep cycles. Pomodoro variants and timer-based work blocks make up the focus side. A smaller third group covers single-use tools: a countdown for one event, a stopwatch for a practice run, or a date calculation done once. Every post links back to the tool it discusses, so you can try it right away.
How these guides are written and kept current
Every post is written by Elif Aksoy, the developer behind onlinealarmclock.co. Claims about sleep cycles, focus techniques, or timing come from a cited source when one exists. Posts are revisited whenever the relevant tool changes — an article about Pomodoro timers gets updated if the tool's default interval changes. A post that no longer matches how a tool behaves is a bug, not just a comment.
Frequently asked questions
How often do you publish new posts?
Roughly every one to two weeks. Older posts are updated whenever the tool they reference changes, rather than left to go stale.
Who writes these posts?
Elif Aksoy, the developer of onlinealarmclock.co, writes every post herself — there's no outside contributor or AI-generated filler.
Do I need to read the blog to use the tools?
No. Every tool works on its own with no signup. The blog is for anyone who wants the reasoning behind a feature, not a requirement to use it.