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🍅Tomato Timer, A True BFF⏳

First, you might be wondering why they called it Tomato timer, well as you can see from the pictures Above, this is how the original timer used by this method whose originally was developed by Francesco Cirillo in the later years of nineteen Eighties. This is a proven to Work Technique by many people, even myself, I have seen the result of using this method to improve productivity or simply get more done during the day.

Pomodoro Technique

The Pomodoro Technique is A Time Management method that uses a timer To break tasks or work into sections or intervals, most people call this Time Boxing or Time blocking.

  • First: We Set a Timer for 25 minutes, and we focus on a single task or work to be done.
  • Second: We take a short break of 5 minutes (walk, rehydrate, stretch, snacks)
  • Third: That's 1 Pomodoro You just complete a long with a break, keep in mind that each 25-min block known as pomodoro.
  • As you have completed 4 pomodoro blocks. Meaning 4 25-min pomodoro sections, you can take a long break of 20-30 minutes.

This is a Pretty simple, a useful technique ta could help you improve productivity and get you to do more.

👇 Please Check out the Wikipedia Resource as it's a quick Read that give you all the Detail needed quickly 👇

REFERENCES:
Wikipedia
Lifehacker Article
Pomolectron Timer app I used been using this one for years, simple and get the job done.Most Important to me, It's Open Source.

  • NOTE: This is one of 30 blogs that I would be attempting to write over the next 30 days to improve my writing skills.

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