I dispatch law enforcement and the default timer app on my apple watch is very useful for that. I mostly use it for status check on officers. It's nice because I can say "5 minute timer called Johnny" and I have a quick visual for how long until I should check on Johnny. Nicer still, I can have a separate timer for Susie and Jeff running at the same time too. Generally, I ask their status if we haven't talked on the radio for 5 minutes though it can be longer.
The less convenient part comes when they talk to me before the timer is over. Let's say Johnny talks to me when there's still 3 minutes left on the 5 minute timer.
Is there a way to quickly reset the timer to the full five minutes again before the timer runs out?
As far as I know, you either have to wait the full 5 minutes and then you get the reset option. Or you have to delete the timer and create a new timer with the same length and label. I like everything else about the default timer app, so I'd prefer to keep using it. But if there's a better app that lets me reset the timer at any point, that would be good to know too.
I feel your pain fellow creature of the night.
I wish there was a way to sync apps up better to my sleep schedule. I hate how activity, my to do list (Things 3), and other apps consider the new day to be at midnight. If I exercise after midnight during one waking cycle and before midnight the next waking cycle, it counts as the same day of exercise. At midnight, my to-dos from the next waking cycle clutter my current list. My phone and watch want to update during the middle of my waking cycle.
Just let me set the "rollover to the next day" function to the middle of my sleep cycle. Like noon. Obviously the calendar date should roll over at midnight which is a little wonky. But you can always mark to-do dates and exercise dates as the date your wake cycle starts. Like if I exercise between noon on 11/25 and noon on 11/26, just mark that I exercised on 11/25.