A Better Pomodoro
Pomodoro Technique, work 25 minutes, rest 5 minutes; Simple, and work well enough. But I still often not achieving much with it, or unable to focus through it.
Its fundamental logic:
- Get started doing things, knowing it won’t take long and award with a break.
- Giving a natural time block, prevent overspending time on single task without realising it.
Knowing the root reasonings, we can optimise it:
- Start highest priority task, start a stopwatch, work until distracted, rest for 1/5 of the working time. This makes the tasks easy and keep us going.
- Keep progressing and increase the work time, until getting into Flow State, then just set a suitable timer to give the task a boundary. This prevents the rest every 25 minutes breaking our flow.
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