Also, Pomodoro Technique requires discipline, and most of the simple timers don't help you much. For example, if you just cancel a pomodoro (or a short break) -- nothing happens, while in Flowkeeper it is more visible, you get an interruption recorded. There's a bunch of small things like that, which motivate the user to do Pomodoro _right_. When you do it right, it is much more efficient.
Just to be clear -- a kitchen timer and a sheet of paper is enough. I just wanted to do the _exact_ same thing for my desktop.
ity75303•7mo ago
Some of the examples:
- It makes breaks unconditional. Aborting a break voids the corresponding pomodoro.
- There are no half or quarter-pomodoros. You can’t mark a pomodoro as completed prematurely, only void it.
- You can record interruptions.
- The tasks are estimated visually, as in the book, and the app distinguishes between planned and unplanned stuff, so that you can analyze it retrospectively.
- You can have several backlogs and move work items between them.
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