Having read about the Pomodoro Technique for ‘training your brain away from distractions‘ on Lifehacker I wanted to try it out. To effectively do so I needed a timer.
Thankfully I needed to look no further than my faithful dock Docky.
Timer
Docky added a Timer docklet t it’s development branch little while back (PPA here). Since then I’d mainly been using it to keep track of how long veggie sausages had been in the oven etc. Stumbling across the Pomodoro technique married the docklet with a new purpose: productivity!
Pomodoro
What’s this Pomodoro technique all about? Put simply the Pomodoro technique teaches you to break down periods of work into 25 minute chunks, via the use of a timer, with subscribers taking a 5 minute ‘break’ in-between those chunks.
Like so: –
- Choose a task
- Set a timer for 25 minutes
- Work on that task until the timer goes off
- Take a 5 minute break
- Repeat.
- Hover over the Timer docklet icon and use the mouse scroll wheel to set a timer for 25 minutes (You can use the CTRL to adjust hours and shift to adjust minutes.)
- Once you have set 25 minutes click on the timer icon to spawn the timer
- When prepped click on the new timer to start the countdown.
