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 ...

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The Pomodoro Technique divides time into 25-minute work intervals with short breaks to increase concentration and productivity.

I first started using the Pomodoro Technique back in 2014 when some then-co-workers introduced it to me during a brainstorming session. The Pomodoro Method aims to improve focus and productivity while ...

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Let’s face it – it really is a mission to concentrate on tasks and be even moderately productive some days. We’re well and truly trapped in a world of distractions right now – be they pings from our ...

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 ...

This simple technique developed by productivity consultant Francesco Cirillo makes use of an adorable timer shaped like a tomato ("pomodoro” is the Italian word for tomato)—it even has little green ...

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