The Pomodoro TechniqueFrancesco Cirillo
The Pomodoro Technique
by Francesco Cirillo · first published 2018
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"Available through bookstores for the first time, the internationally acclaimed time management system that has been used by millions, written by Francesco Cirillo, creator of the Pomodoro Technique. Francesco Cirillo developed his famed system for improving productivity as a college student 30 years ago. Using a kitchen timer shaped like a pomodoro (Italian for tomato), Cirillo divided the time he spent working on a project into 25-minute intervals, with 5-minute breaks in between, in order to get more done, without interruptions. By grouping a number of Pomodoros together, users can tackle
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on “Ask HN: Advice for Dealing with Crippling Procrastination?” ↗Would a 25-minute latency be a good way to incorporate this tactic and Francesco Cirillo's Pomodoro Technique?
on “I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit” ↗…it timeboxing.cc. Or to put it in another way: if this is just timeboxing, why did Fei call it Pomodoro.cc? And why did the site used to say "Pomodoro.cc is a tool that leverages the concepts of the Pomodoro Technique", rather than just "implements timeboxing"? Seems to me that Fei got a useful technique for free from Cirillo, and his thanks is to not even have the respect to name his site something else.
on “Show HN: So Long, and Thanks for All the Veggies” ↗Flowkeeper is an old-school desktop application, which implements rather rigorously what Francesco Cirillo described in his original "Pomodoro Technique" book. Some of the examples: - It makes breaks unconditional. Aborting a break voids the corresponding pomodoro. - There are no half or quarter-pomodoros. You can’t mark a pomodoro as completed prematurely,…
on “Show HN: An accurate implementation of Pomodoro Technique” ↗> The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. It uses a kitchen timer to break work into intervals, typically 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. Each interval…
on “Show HN: A rain Pomodoro with brown noise, ASMR, and Middle Eastern music” ↗…your work, replacing all cases where you've named your work 'pomodoro' with a new name. • add an explanatory note on your site, to the effect: "this was previously called, and inspired by, Cirillo's 'Pomodoro Technique', but as Cirillo claims a trademark on that name, its been renamed. go to _his site_ if you want his book or training/consulting services" • for some initial transition period – say 90 days? – have `pomodoro.cc`…
on “Show HN: So Long, and Thanks for All the Veggies” ↗