Athrelon comments on Group rationality diary, 6/25/12 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mapnoterritory 26 June 2012 09:19:59PM 0 points [-]

This is interesting. Today was my first day of pomodoro usage (I use Rescue Time since a while). Afternoon I just decided to switch it off because I found it to kill my flow... That been said the reason why I started with pomodoro today was because I was procrastinating and used the time to try several pomodoro timers. My problem is getting started and hoped that setting myself to just do 1 pomodoro would make it easier to get going (which it didn't help...).

But once I am going I can work easily more than an hour without distractions (this I know from Rescue Time) and maybe pomodoro won't be a good solution for me. Stil it was just a first day, will try again, maybe also experiment with longer work units...

Comment author: Athrelon 27 June 2012 05:19:57PM 1 point [-]

Since you played around with several pomodoros...did you manage to find one that cycles automatically, without needing user input to restart the cycle? I've found that I tend to start procrastinating after the end of a "break" so having that choice taken away would be useful for me.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 28 June 2012 02:53:48PM 2 points [-]

Try Workrave with a 25/5 break cycle.

Comment author: mapnoterritory 27 June 2012 05:59:55PM 0 points [-]

If you are Emacs user then this does what you need: pomodoro.el.