Near the end of 2012 I whipped up a simple web app that I use for tracking all of my pomodoros. I do set weekly pomodoro targets by category. I only do this occasionally if I think my estimating ability is getting really off. I don’t constantly set detailed pomodoro targets and track how many pomodoros were actually required. I know that “a pomodoro is indivisible”, but screw it, I chat, and when the conversation ends I count a pomodoro after ten more minutes of work. Let’s say I work for fifteen minutes and someone comes in to chat about something important that’s been on their mind. I don’t let interruptions cancel out pomodoros.I merely try remain conscious of interruptions and eliminate/avoid them as much as possible. You’re supposed to track all internal and external interruptions, but I don’t bother with that. Sometimes I just start working, remembering to take small intermittent breaks, and record the total time in pomodoros (4h of work = 8 pomodoros). For example, if I do two pomodoros, get in the zone, and work for another two hours straight, I’d still record that as 6 pomodoros (3 hours) total. Ways I deviate from the “true” pomodoro technique: But since I had a system for tracking where and how I spent my time, and since “claiming” all that time helped motivate me e.g. Certain things here, such as most Health (exercise) stuff, I never actually ran a pomodoro timer. To be clear, I didn’t use the pomodoro technique 100% faithfully. Grand Total: 5,008 (2,504h) – 96.3 (48.2h) avg/week My version of the pomodoro technique The end result was 2,504 hours of recorded work-5,008 pomodoros in total: Stacked Pomodoros by Week in 2013Ī summary, by category (with hours in brackets): health – exercise projects (mostly climbing, some running, some misc other stuff).banking stuff, knocking off a bunch of small todo’s, house cleanup) misc – miscellaneous life maintenance projects (e.g.reading books, taking notes, making Anki decks monthly reviews) growth – personal development projects (e.g.bizdev – other income-generating projects (e.g.work – at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute.Throughout 2013 I used pomodoros to execute on pretty much all of my life projects, organized into the following categories: Choose a new task, restart the timer, and repeat. The pomodoro technique is, in short, starting a timer and doing 25 minutes of focused work on a single task without interruption, followed by a five minute break.
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