A Better Pomodoro

Blog #0001 - Pondering how Pomodoro Technique works.

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 realizing it.

Knowing the root reasonings, we can optimize it:

1. Start a timer (stopwatch), work on highest priority task until distracted, rest for 1/5 of the work time. This makes the tasks easy and keep us going.
2. Keep progressing and increase the work time, until getting into Flow State. This prevents the break every 25 minutes stopping our flow. A stopwatch should still be running to remind ourselves how much time spent.