As you can probably guess, there’s some wiggle room here. For shorter tasks, you can set your timer for 10 or 15 minutes, and ...

When you're ready to start, set a timer for 25 minutes. This countdown creates a sense of urgency and helps prevent ...

During this extended period of evolving schedules and dissolving plans, in which many of us no longer “go” to work or school or much of anywhere, time feels increasingly fluid. It leaks, spills and ...

Do you often feel stressed because you seem to always run out of time when working on a project or task? Do you consider yourself a great multitasker, though you realize at the end of the day that you ...

Keeping focused can be difficult with the constant distraction of emails, notifications, and scrolling social media. In recent years, though, the Pomodoro Technique has proven to be an effective time ...

Every few years, some new productivity or management style comes into vogue, and everyone talks about why you should try whatever technique is on the best-seller list. But one approach to productivity ...

I've alluded to my search for personal organization a couple of times during 2009. While it's not something that I'm obsessing about, I now capture my major goals in Things, and that at least tells me ...

ProfHacker has covered many different time management techniques, and today I’m going to introduce you to another one. What sets the Pomodoro technique apart from other time management techniques is ...

The Pomodoro Technique for productivity sounds cool, but you might fall into the same trap I do: you read about setting timers to get work done, and then you research the best Pomodoro timer, and then ...

The Pomodoro technique is a superstar in the world of productivity methods because its premise—that you should work hard for 25 minutes, then reward yourself with a few minutes off—is effective and ...