Personal time management may be a hudge subject - a lot of knowledge to learn, train and understand to do it perfectly... or it may be just any simple set of rules you always follow. I've found "The Pomodoro Technique" - which is just a simple set of rules.
Pomodoro rules:
- if you do The Task, you do The Task. Nothing can disturb you (other people, phone call, news feed - just nothing),
- you do The Task for a specified amount of time (e.g. 25 minutes), and then you take a short break (e.g. 5 minutes). Then you continue The Task or start a next one, and break, and next task, and break, ... you got the point.
- after few work/break cycles (usually 4), you make a long break (e.g. 20 minutes),
So simply saying your work-cycle is for example:
- 25 minutes of work, then 5 minutes of rest (short break),
- 25 minutes of work, then 5 minutes of rest (short break),
- 25 minutes of work, then 5 minutes of rest (short break),
- 25 minutes of rest, then 20 minutes of rest (long break),
The "Pomodoro Technique" works and I like it. Of course, it is not the "golden rule" - it may not "fit" to your needs. Anyway, let's just give it a try :)
Pomodorro - our version:
There is a lot of software already present in the net, however we (in Kemu) made some own version. We called it Pomodorro - try it :)
The idea was - to have a nice looking (well designed), simple to run (web version) and configurable (few simple options) Pomodoro tool. I hope you like it!
Future:
We like the idea so much, we plan to create version for mobiles (Android at least) and desktop (Windows and Linux).
