POMODORO 25 minutes - Focused Moment - With Classical Music and Alarm

25 minutes - Focused Moment - With Classical Music and Alarm.

How to start using the Pomodoro technique to study

As a timer is Pomodoro's only essential tool, you can start with any phone with a timer app, a countdown clock or even an egg-shaped kitchen timer.

Cirillo himself prefers a manual timer, and says that winding up “confirms his determination to work”.

Even so, we highlight below several applications focused on the Pomodoro method, which easily offer this markup:

How the Pomodoro Technique Works

The Pomodoro technique is probably one of the simplest productivity methods to implement. All you need is a timer. In addition, no special applications, books or tools are required.

Cirillo's book, “The Pomodoro Technique”, is a useful read, but Cirillo himself does not hide the core of the method behind a purchase. Therefore, you do not have to waste your time reading the book, everything that is really important you find here in this article.

Important: a Pomodoro is the name given to a time interval of 25 minutes, so whenever we talk about 1 Pomodoro, it is 25 minutes, 2 pomodoros are 50 minutes, 3 pomodoros are 75 minutes, and so on.

Here's how to start applying the Pomodoro technique to study in five steps:

1. Choose a task to be performed;
2. Set your time stamp to 25 minutes (1 Pomodoro):
3. Work on each task / study for a period of 25 minutes (1 Pomodoro);
4. After each Pomodoro (25 min), take a short break of 5 minutes;

5. In addition, for every 4 complete Pomodoros, take a longer break (15 to 30 min).
This "longest break" is usually in the order of 15 to 30 minutes, whatever it takes to make you feel recharged and ready to start another 25-minute work session.

Repeat this process a few times over the course of a study day, and you will really become very productive.