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Pomodoro technique template: a morning of 25-minute blocks, planned as tasks
Work in 25-minute blocks with 5-minute breaks and a longer break after four, planned as tasks with durations.
- 4 sections
- 11 tasks
- Opens as a list
- Repeats on its own
Pomodoro day
Plan
- Pick today's tasks and guess the pomodoros each needsEvery workday 8:45
Morning set
- Pomodoro 1: [task]Every workday 9:00High
- Short breakEvery workday 9:25
- Pomodoro 2: [task]Every workday 9:30
- Short breakEvery workday 9:55
- Pomodoro 3: [task]Every workday 10:00
- Short breakEvery workday 10:25
- Pomodoro 4: [task]Every workday 10:30
- Long break: away from the screenEvery workday 10:55
Interruptions
- Write things that came up here, and deal with them after the set
Review
- Count pomodoros done against the guessEvery workday 17:30
About this template
The pomodoro technique is a timer and a rule: work on one thing for 25 minutes, then stop for 5. After four rounds, take a longer break. It helps most on work you keep putting off, because 25 minutes is short enough to start.
This project lays out one morning of four pomodoros with the breaks between. Each task has its length set. You can run each block as a focus session.
Tips from the template
- Name the task for each pomodoro before you start the first.
- If something comes to mind mid-block, write it in Interruptions and carry on.
- Count how many pomodoros a job took. Your estimates get better.
How to use it in ActivityTracker
- 1Open Tasks and choose Templates.
- 2Find Pomodoro technique and open it. You see every section and task before anything is added.
- 3Check the name the new project gets, and change it if you like.
- 4Press Use template. Rename the project, then work down the list.
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Questions
Run it with the dates filled in.
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