One Pomodoro, Ii Pomodoro, Iii Pomodoro, Four

I cause got been using the pomodoro technique for a yoke years to amend my productivity. Pomodoro is a timer (of xx minutes) during which you lot commit to create a task. After this chore timer at that spot is a curt break, subsequently which the adjacent chore timer starts again. The pomodoro technique is described hither inwards detail.

I similar pomodoro equally it helps me to concentrate too larn things done. It also helps me to larn started on something I hatred doing: Surely I tin suffer doing that affair for xx minutes, right? This helps play tricks myself to interruption my inertia too commonly I uncovering that I tin driblet dead on going for multiple pomodoros on that task.

I role the Pomodoro Desktop app (by Ugo Landini) for Mac OS X, too configure it to role xx minutes equally the chore timer too 10 minutes equally the interruption timer. I modified it to disable my laptop wifi at the offset of the chore timer too enable it dorsum at the cease of the chore timer. For this I added do trounce script "networksetup -setairportpower en0 off" to the pomodoro offset script and do trounce script "networksetup -setairportpower en0 on" to the cease script.

Adding the automatic wifi disable/enable to the pomodoro has improved my productivity greatly. Now, I create non larn lured to banking venture check twitter or gmail inwards the kernel of writing something (which unavoidably leads to checking hacker intelligence too quora). If what I am working on truly requires to await something upwardly on the internet, I banker's complaint it (either on a paper, or most of the fourth dimension I truly larn inwards the affair to await upwardly on the inactive chrome past times opening a novel tab). At the cease of my chore timer, my wifi restores automatically, too I pick out grip of those pages inwards bulk. During the interruption time, I tin also banking venture check my post service if I experience similar it, or larn up, walk some too flex. During the interruption fourth dimension I also bring a pace back, too intend most what I cause got been working too how it relates to other things too fits inwards the big picture. The interruption gives my encephalon fourth dimension to larn creative too brand novel connections.

This setup also reduces the distractions from existence e'er connected to the Internet. With the automated wifi disabling/enabling, I am basically using my inherent laziness to my advantage. Manually enable my wifi carries a transaction cost, too I jurist I am likewise lazy to create that and/or likewise proud to bring a defeat :-)