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The Pomodoro Technique: Productivity hacks

saransh kataria on January 12, 2022

The irony of time management productivity tips is that the people who need them the most do not realize that they do. There are too many productivi...
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Rex

I use this technique and love it for one reasons: It breaks the ‘flow’ of frantically trying everything attacking a problem when I am stuck, that 5 minutes break gives my brain a chance to get out from the process. When I come back, I usually can see the problem from different angles and resolve it quicker. Similarly, breaking also help me to focus on the problem, prevent me from getting into ‘the zone’, which tends to lead to a lot of code very fast but with lower quality.

I use workrave to enforce the break. When the time is up, it blocks the keyboard and screen and there isn’t a way to not to break. Absolutely awesome piece of software, I am very grateful to the creators.

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saransh kataria

I will check out workrave, that seems like a good feature. Thanks!

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Hossain Ahmad

can you tell me the name of the software of PC version?

Thanks

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Hossain Ahmad

Thank you so much.

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Yogini Bende

Been a long-time follower of Pomodoro and it works best for me. I mostly set up one Pomodoro of 40 mins and 10 mins break after every Pomodoro.

Loved the way you explained everything 🙌

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saransh kataria

Thanks for the comment. Glad you liked it!

I've experimented with the times quite a lot and usually do 50 and 10 minutes on normal days and on days that I am not feeling it, switch to 40 minutes and 20 minutes. It also helps break blocks into hours and that works best for me. But I feel everyone should adjust them according to themselves since every person has a different attention span.

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Janardhan Pulivarthi

One small addition, if we get to do some work generally we should mark it for later. But, if we do that task we mark that pomodoro void. This keeps the integrity of the pomodoro.

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saransh kataria

That is what the creator recommends, I mentioned it in the last bullet but different people have different ways of accomodating distractions.

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Deon Rich

Thanks for sharing, i could definitely use this!

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saransh kataria

Hope it helps.

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Jelle Smeets

Great post. Thanks for sharing this productivity hack!

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saransh kataria

Glad to hear that it was helpful!