Pomodoro

Thursday, the 29th of January 2026. I've been looking at Pomodoro timers. I've been looking at those quite a lot and really looking at boosting my productivity. 

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So, um, for anybody who doesn't know, like a pomodoro time up, it's essentially like a a timer that you set to basically kind of like complete a given task. Now it's not quite as simple as you have 25 minutes to effectively complete this task, but the whole psychology of it. is that it basically kind of like keeps you focussed and you basically do something you try to accomplish. 

You can't look at it, you know, as, you know, as something that, you know, as a timer that you set to try and accomplish something within the given frame of time. 

But again, it's an oversimplification of the whole thing. So in essence, what you do is you set a timer so that it effectively removes distractions. So effectively in that 25 minutes, all you are doing is that one thing, which basically kind of like puts a whole, it turns the table on the whole idea of multitasking, which I've always had. 

A negative experience with because, you know, the side effect of basically multitasking is that you lose the percentage of focus on a given task. So like, let's say, for example, if you're washing the dishes downstairs and you're ironing upstairs, um, the quality of the job that you are doing or the quality of focus that you have per task is maximum of it is 50%. And, um, you know, you always have to kind of like weigh it out in your head, like, you know, would you rather have, um, you know, be 50% focussed on the task or 100% focussed on the task? 

Would you rather be 50% focussed on driving a car or 100% focussed on driving a car? And so it's just kind of like one of those things that I'm looking at at the moment to effectively boost my productivity. Today, in particular, I'm feeling very productive because I am setting times. 

I am giving myself tasks and giving, you know, setting times to effectively complete those tasks because in completing those tasks, Sorry, in setting those times, it kind of like boosts the probability of me actually completing those tasks and staying on top of things. The more notes that I write down, the more that I kind of like dump onto a 2nd system to do these things, the better for me. Because essentially it means that I don't have to keep all of that information on my brain.