As you can probably guess, there’s some wiggle room here. For shorter tasks, you can set your timer for 10 or 15 minutes, and give yourself a two or three minute break. For bigger tasks, you can give ...

What is the Pomodoro Technique? The Pomodoro is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. The core idea is simple: you break your work into intervals, traditionally 25 ...

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Do you often feel stressed because you seem to always run out of time when working on a project or task? Do you consider yourself a great multitasker, though you realize at the end of the day that you ...

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Pomodoro timers are a simple productivity tool. They help you work in dedicated chunks of time, usually 25 minutes in a ...

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Working from home is full of temptation in the form of innumerable distractions. Using the Pomodoro Technique, I started dividing my day into 25-minute chunks with a short break at the end of each ...

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[zorbash] came up with a great side project while designing a way to read notes and highlighted sections from e-books without having to use Good Reads or the Amazon tool: build a gadget to display a ...