I made an audio track to help myself focus doing the Pomodoro technique. It consists of 25 minutes of noise from rainymood.com followed by 5 minutes of break time. I can just leave it looping in my headphones to run through a series of Pomodoro sprints without any other timer, and the noise blocks outside distractions and serves as a constant reminder to stick to work. Download here.
I mixed the rainstorm noise work period with a 20 Hz binaural beat and the break period with 1.5, 4 and 7 Hz binaural beats. Binaural beats can supposedly make your mental state more alert (the frequencies around 20 Hz) or more relaxed (frequencies below 10 Hz). I don’t have any solid evidence that they’re any better than placebo, but they’re neat-sounding placebo. I used discord to mix the binaural noise, and I think this is the program I used to generate the audio.
(Standard caveats for listening to stuff while doing cognitively demanding stuff apply. Some studies show people perform measurably worse in tasks that demand creativity when listening to music than when working in silence. Listening to a soundtrack may still be a good idea if you’re in a place with lots of distracting noise or if you’re having trouble concentrating at all.)
I made an audio track to help myself focus doing the Pomodoro technique. It consists of 25 minutes of noise from rainymood.com followed by 5 minutes of break time. I can just leave it looping in my headphones to run through a series of Pomodoro sprints without any other timer, and the noise blocks outside distractions and serves as a constant reminder to stick to work. Download here.
I mixed the rainstorm noise work period with a 20 Hz binaural beat and the break period with 1.5, 4 and 7 Hz binaural beats. Binaural beats can supposedly make your mental state more alert (the frequencies around 20 Hz) or more relaxed (frequencies below 10 Hz). I don’t have any solid evidence that they’re any better than placebo, but they’re neat-sounding placebo. I used discord to mix the binaural noise, and I think this is the program I used to generate the audio.
(Standard caveats for listening to stuff while doing cognitively demanding stuff apply. Some studies show people perform measurably worse in tasks that demand creativity when listening to music than when working in silence. Listening to a soundtrack may still be a good idea if you’re in a place with lots of distracting noise or if you’re having trouble concentrating at all.)