The Pomodoro efficiency improvement system was invented by an Italian lazy student named Francesco Cirillo in 1992. During his college studies, he did not have time to do anything and received bad grades. To remedy the situation, he began to experiment and found that if you distribute the work into small pieces, you can eat a large one a day, but not get too tired. This is due to the high concentration and rhythmic change of work and rest. Additionally, the system allows you to solve the problem of "postponing". If you record the time of work, and make this interval small, there is no strong internal resistance to start. Thus, it has established a working interval of 25 minutes and 5 minutes of rest between them.
An additional advantage of the system, which has won millions of fans, is the ability to plan the work on tomatoes, and in the evening to estimate the yield. Technically,
You distribute the cases that you need to do in 25 minutes (you can immediately plan one case for 2, 4 or more sections).
Ensure that you have the right conditions for concentrated work (turn off anything that can distract you in the next 25 minutes).
Set the timer for 25 minutes and start the planned work immediately.
When the time expires, take a break of 5 minutes. At the same time, you are doing the opposite (if you were sitting at the computer, you need to walk, stretch; if you were running, you need to sit down, etc.).
After two tomatoes you can take a break of 10 minutes, after 4 minutes you can take more (if you wish and if possible).
Don't forget to note how many tomatoes you ate during the day. This will give you a good mood before going to bed when you count them.
For the last seven days I've been testing the Pomodoro time management system. I have heard about it from the most famous info-businessmen, as well as from the media from top managers, as one of the most effective and easy to use. Now I decided to check if such a system could help a mother of two children with a big bunch of personnel files. Of course, I couldn't help but make another experiment. And half of the time I was home alone. The other half was with my family. That's what I got out of it.
Pomodoro Apps programs for iPhone.
I started by finding a suitable program for the iPhone that could be used to record tomato cases, count up the time of work and pauses. The programs with such a name was about 150 in istore (software store for iPhone). I experienced four that I liked according to the description (three free and one paid). In the end, I decided on a fee. But in order.
Simple Pomodoro Timer (free software).
This program was the first free of charge in the list of all programs on this system. Good reviews. I downloaded it. The programs are really very simple. This is its main advantage. Among others:
A big screen with 25 minutes countdown;
the ability to turn on a short or long break at once;
A quiet sound message when time is up.
This is the end of the line. Among the drawbacks I will notice the poor design and the lack of opportunity to really plan or at least record the cases made.
Pomodoro timerPomodoro.
It's a beautiful timer, but not a time management program. All Pomodoro Timer can do is count down time like a kitchen timer. The design is excellent. But if you go to another program, the timer stops reacting. I wiped it off on that basis at once. In addition to these shortcomings, there is advertising.
30/30
The program seemed to me at first glance very complicated, so I "poke", did not understand anything and did not begin to master.
Cube (Pomodoro timer).
It's worth about a dollar.
I fell in love with this program at first sight. I have everything I wanted here, so I didn't look any further:
Working time timer (25 minutes)
Rest timer (5 minutes, the number of minutes can be changed)
The program reports the end of the runtime even if it is switched off.
The most important thing is that after every 25 minutes you can write what you have done, and this event is indicated by a tomato. I liked it even better than writing down what to do first and then counting it down. It's more convenient for me to write things down in another form (Things or on a piece of paper).