Hello and welcome to the fifth day of the June 30 days writing challenge. If you want to know all the details about this specific challenge, have a look at the introductory post. In short, I will be posting every day a short tip, or technique, or opinion, something that you can call a "life hack". Feel free to join the challenge and post your own life hacks. I will do my best to upvote each day at full strength (about $3 at the current STEEM price) 3 posts tagged #challenge30days (leaving a link to your posts in the comments will also help).

How Many Pomodoro Can You Gather?

Since productivity seems to resonate with a lot of readers, let's continue on that path.

Today, about the "pomodoro" technique. It's a productivity framework created by Francesco Cirrulo in the late 80s and it may be defined by what we would call these days "timeboxing".

In this technique, instead of having a long, monolithic list of tasks, you pick just one and work on it in equal time chunks. The consensus is to use a 25 minutes time chunk, since this is what the creator of the technique used. At the end of the time chunk you stop, and cross off "pomodoro" - regardless of finishing or not the actual task, since you are just tracking the time spend on it.

Here's a picture of such a timer, embedded from the Wikipedia entry about Pmodoro.

By The original uploader was Erato at Italian Wikinews - Transferred from it.wikinews to Commons by Fale using CommonsHelper., CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

*** There are many benefits in pomodoro-ing your tasks: a clearer mind, a sense of achievement and accomplishment, better focus and less strain on the body or mind.

Now, you can use whatever term you want instead of "pomodor", the idea is to create a specific "timebox" in which you will group all the relevant tasks. And, of course, rejoice at the end of the day by counting all the "timeboxes" you crossed off.

I found out that this works better in non-creative work, like doing your taxes, or implementing clear specifications (if you're a programmer). So, your mileage may vary.

I'm really curious to read about your life hack today. Leave a comment with a link to your post, if possible.

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June 30 Days Writing Challenge - Life Hacks - Day Five: The Pomodoro Technique