For the Spring 2024 Semester I refined my old productivity method to be entirely based around embracing the to do list. How ever I’ve found recently that I really miss using the pomodoro technique. I find that sometimes I have a hard time kick starting myself to get to a project, and pomodoros have always helped with that.
I’ve found the best way to make pomodoros work is to only start a pomodoro if I absolutely know I can commit. Then the opposite becomes true, that starting a pomodoro means that I have to commit.
As a form of accountability, I’ve added my pomodoro count to my productivity monitor: