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:

  1. Get started doing things, knowing it won’t take long and award with a break.
  2. Giving a natural time block, prevent overspending time on single task without realising it.

Knowing the root reasonings, we can optimise it:

  1. 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.
  2. 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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