A Toasty Requirement

For a Pomodoro Timer application to be useful, it needs to notify you when the countdown is finished.

It was encouraging to see that Textual has a Toast widget. Unfortunately, Textual's Toast widget only pops up in the terminal. I want a system notification.

Searching for a Python package to do system notifications turned up a few. Some were Windows-only. Some required installing additional system packages.

I settled on plyer:

• part of the Kivy project
• does notifications on multiple platforms