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Discussion on: Why I Use The Pomodoro Technique

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Jason C. McDonald

Indeed. It is excellent! (Read the book if you can, it's really insightful.)

I really need to do an article on how I merge Pomodoro and Bullet Journaling, as the particular combination is my own original technique. In short, I put underscores next to tasks to mark planned Pomodoros, and then I mark them with a checkmark for completed, a slash / for voided, and an X (through the actual underscore, not above it) for "didn't need". I also put a + under the line if I added it after-the-fact, as opposed to pre-planning.

For all distractions, I use the bullet journaling syntax on a piece of scratch paper to mark random thoughts and tasks. After the Pomodoro, I go through these and transfer them to my Bullet Journal if needs be.