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If you skip it, it might be best to save the break up for later, so you get a longer break after longer work (somewhat like Third Time). As the academic research suggests, not surprisingly, that people need longer breaks after working longer.

Yes, sounds reasonable, I will probably make the breaks proportional to pomodoro length.

(1/3 feels like a bit too much though, e.g. 8 minute break for each 25 minute pomodoro. 1/5 to 1/4 would... (read more)

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gumbo4y

What’s wrong with Pomodoro

Interesting approach, thank you.

A while ago I addressed the same concerns by inventing adaptive variation of Pomodoro, where the interval length is fluctuating all the time:

start with 25 minutes pomodoros
in case I feel that I'm in the flow and don't want to stop for a break, I immediately start a new pomodoro with length +5 minutes longer than previous
in case I get distracted/interrupted before finishing a pomodoro, I start the next pomodoro with length 5 minutes shorter than previous.

I use my own app to implement it: https://github.com/gumb0/adaptive-pomodoro
(perhaps I could adapt it to try out your approach)

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Urgent & important: How (not) to do your to-do list

For me they still don't work.

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