Pomodoro Technique
Pomodoro Timer for Windows 7
TeamViz is a Pomodoro Timer for people who apply The Pomodoro Technique® as personal time management tool.
Step 1: Planning
Planning is the first activity you should take at the beginning of the your work day. TeamViz provided a GTD like tool to help you create task list, add activities to task list, and select some of them to today’s todo list.
Step 2: Tracking
This is the counting-down timer for work time and rest time. Also, when it’s going to the break, you have a chance to switch between long break and short break.
A floating widget is also provided as a replacement if your task is auto-hidden.
Step 3: Learn from Report
After a day’s work, you can learn from your daily/weekly reports, and learn to improve your productivity.
Pomodoro Timer for Linux (Ubuntu)
The Pomodoro Technique® is a productivity methodology that helps you to stay focused on a task by breaking up your day into 25 minutes time-box(called “pomodoros”) followed by 5 minutes breaks. It’s named for the tomato-shaped kitchen timer, a countdown timer. TeamViz is available on Windows, Mac OSX and also Ubuntu. Here is the screenshots for Ubuntu.
Pomodoro Plan Ubuntu
Pomodoro Timer for Ubuntu
Pomodoro Report and Analysis for Ubuntu
Pomodoro Timer for Mac
TeamViz works for both Microsoft Windows and Mac. This is what the Mac version looks like:
Step 1: Planning
With the Pomodoro Technique®, you do your planning in the morning and commit to doing a small number of activities that day. Normally you can complete one task/activity and then choose another one to start. You can also reassess your priorities before every Pomodoro.
Pomodoro GTD Plan Mac
Step 2: Tracking
Once you’ve decided on your activities for the day, you wind up the timer for 25 minutes and then start in on the first one. During every 25-minute time box, so called a Pomodoro, whenever an interruption happens, no matter internal or external, you can log to TeamViz and handle them after you complete current Pomodoro.
Pomodoro Timer for Mac
If your dock bar is auto-hide, you can choose the floating widget which is on top of all other windows:
Pomodoro Timer Floating Widget for Mac OSX
Step 3: Summary
After a day’s work, it’s essential to summarize your day.
Report and Analysis for Mac
What’s the Pomodoro Technique
What’s the Pomodoro Technique
The Pomodoro Technique® is a time management method, which provides a simple tool/process for improving productivity (your own and that of your team).
Basics
The basic unit of work in the Pomodoro Technique® can be split in 4 simple steps with TeamViz, software for pomodoro technique®.
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- Choose a task to be accomplished
- Start the Pomodoro timer(25 minutes)
- Work on the task until the Pomodoro rings
- Take a short break (5 minutes)
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Keep on working, Pomodoro after Pomodoro, until the task at hand is finished, mark it as completed, and select another one to start. Every 4 Pomodoros take a longer break, 15–30 minutes.
The basic iteration of the Pomodoro Technique® is one day. It’s essential to understand that the cycle of one day is: plan-track-learn.
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- Plan: Decide today’s tasks.
- Track: Complete a pomodoro, log unplanned and urgent tasks.
- Learn: Analyze the tracked pomodoros, understanding and clarifies paths to improvement.
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Pomodoro Technique® Illustration
Rules and Tips
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- A Pomodoro is indivisible
- If a task takes more than 5–7 Pomodoros, break it down
- If it takes less than one pomodoro, add it up, and combine it with another task
- Once a Pomodoro begins, it has to ring
- Pomodoro Technique® shouldn’t be used for activities you do in your free time. Enjoy free time!
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Interruptions
Once you’ve started using the Pomodoro Technique®, interruptions can become a real problem.
Internal interruptions: distractions that come from you: stand up and get something to eat or drink or to look up something on the Internet this minute.
External interruptions: a colleague asks you how to compile a report; an email program constantly beeps every time a new message comes in. A 25-minute or 2-hour delay (four Pomodoros) is almost always possible for activities that are commonly considered urgent.
Whenever an interruption come in, log it in TeamViz, and it will track the interruptions for you for later processing, and also track the count of interruptions during one task/activity.
Pomodoro Technique® Interruption Illustration
The Pomodoro Technique® Resources
http://www.pomodorotechnique.com
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