This is interesting. Today was my first day of pomodoro usage (I use Rescue Time since a while). Afternoon I just decided to switch it off because I found it to kill my flow… That been said the reason why I started with pomodoro today was because I was procrastinating and used the time to try several pomodoro timers. My problem is getting started and hoped that setting myself to just do 1 pomodoro would make it easier to get going (which it didn’t help...).
But once I am going I can work easily more than an hour without distractions (this I know from Rescue Time) and maybe pomodoro won’t be a good solution for me. Stil it was just a first day, will try again, maybe also experiment with longer work units...
Since you played around with several pomodoros...did you manage to find one that cycles automatically, without needing user input to restart the cycle? I’ve found that I tend to start procrastinating after the end of a “break” so having that choice taken away would be useful for me.
This is interesting. Today was my first day of pomodoro usage (I use Rescue Time since a while). Afternoon I just decided to switch it off because I found it to kill my flow… That been said the reason why I started with pomodoro today was because I was procrastinating and used the time to try several pomodoro timers. My problem is getting started and hoped that setting myself to just do 1 pomodoro would make it easier to get going (which it didn’t help...).
But once I am going I can work easily more than an hour without distractions (this I know from Rescue Time) and maybe pomodoro won’t be a good solution for me. Stil it was just a first day, will try again, maybe also experiment with longer work units...
Since you played around with several pomodoros...did you manage to find one that cycles automatically, without needing user input to restart the cycle? I’ve found that I tend to start procrastinating after the end of a “break” so having that choice taken away would be useful for me.
Try Workrave with a 25⁄5 break cycle.
If you are Emacs user then this does what you need: pomodoro.el.