Two ways to track tomatoes: Manual or semi-automatic Without distractions, meetings, and breaks, you might only reach eight tomatoes on an average day (about 3.5 hours of work). When tracking tomatoes, you only earn a 🍅 after completing a 25-minute block of work. That assumption would be incorrect since those hours include meetings, lunch, toilet breaks, and a hundred glances at your phone. With eight hours a day for work, you might assume most of that time is productive. Tomatoes automatically exclude meetings, breaks, and downtimeīy tracking your 🍅 average, you get a more accurate picture of how much productive work you can do in a day or week. The opposite is also true: when you start early and hit your tomato goals by noon, you can call it a day or work on something fun after lunch. When you budget and track 🍅s, you didn't earn a single tomato that morning and will have to make up for it in the afternoon or evening. When you loosely pay attention to the clock, you might not realize how bad your morning was. Imagine an extreme example: you work a whole morning, but someone interrupts you every ten minutes.
By tracking how many tomatoes an activity took in the past, I know how many to allocate in the future. Six 🍅s, five days a week, to write articles for my job at Animalz, a content marketing agency.I set a weekly tomato budget for my main projects and life areas: Use 🍅 goals to plan work and stay on track On Wednesday, I’ll now do three tomatoes to stay on track with my writing.Īnd so on. On Tuesday, my second tomato doesn't count as I get interrupted ten minutes in. With this knowledge, I can plan and finish this article on time each week by writing: On average, it takes me 10 🍅s to write one of these articles.
Today, let's look at how breaking down projects and tasks into 25-minute "tomato" blocks (as per The Pomodoro Technique ) can make planning easier and improve productivity.
In the previous article, we explored how 25 minutes of attention per day can help with progress toward a goal you've been putting off.
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