pomodoro post

Signed-off-by: Xe Iaso <me@christine.website>

blog/pomodoro-2022-02-19.markdown

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+---
+title: How I Pomodoro
+date: 2022-02-19
+author: sephiraloveboo
+---
+
+Recently I've started to work the
+[Pomodoro](https://francescocirillo.com/pages/pomodoro-technique) technique into
+my workflow. I've been trying to use it on and off for years, but it's never
+really stuck until now. 
+
+My work laptop uses KDE, so I tried out
+[Fokus](https://store.kde.org/p/1308861/) as a pomodoro timer on a lark. I've
+really liked this. I think one of the major differences between how I've been
+failing at pomodoro in the past and why it's been working now is that I've
+worked it into my [daily note-taking/TODO
+workflow](https://christine.website/blog/gtd-on-paper-2021-06-13). I label each
+pomodoro (my notes call them "Pom" because that isn't something I write often in
+them) as a section in my notes and then include a few TODO items under it. I'll
+also add some notes to the pom in case I need them later.
+
+Here is an example of one such pomodoro section:
+
+![](https://cdn.christine.website/file/christine-static/blog/photo_2022-02-19_08-32-13.jpg)
+
+TODO(Sephie): get screenshot of this from apple notes after pom 1 is over
+
+[What the heck are those scribbles? Those look like sick
+noodles!](conversation://Numa/delet)
+
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+
+[I've been taking notes in <a
+href="https://greggshorthand.github.io/index.html">Gregg Shorthand</a> for
+almost 6 months now. I do that mostly to have a way to write things in my notes
+in such a way that onlookers can't easily see what is going on in them. It is
+similar to using something like <span class="ewcl">Elian Script</span> or <span
+class="ford">Ford Improved Shorthand</span> for taking notes, but the main
+difference is that Gregg is _phonetic_, so things will end up translating out
+like this:](conversation://Cadey/enby)
+
+```markdown
+Pom 1: Blog
++ write
+* webfonts are strange
+```
+
+[Even though things literally say something like
+this:](conversation://Cadey/enby)
+
+```markdown
+Pom 1: Blag
++ rait
+* webfonts ar stranj
+```
+
+[Semantically, it has the same meaning as the first
+segment.](conversation://Cadey/enby)
+
+Most of the time I end up getting 7-9 pomodoros done in a single workday. This
+translates to about 3 and a third hours of full focus time in a single workday
+and the rest of the time is used communicating with others, in meetings, on
+pomodoro breaks, incident response and other annoying life overhead. 
+
+[If you are new to the industry, this kind of admission that less than half of
+someone's workday is spent doing directly productive work can sound _really
+weird_, but this is actually on the higher end of the spectrum from what we've
+been able to research.](conversation://Mara/hacker)
+
+The other major important part of the pomodoro technique is frequent breaks
+after every focus session. During the shorter breaks I'll play a short song in
+[Beat Saber](https://youtu.be/q2iRL6Ef8hI) as a way to reset focus and create a
+new flow state to lead me into the next focus session. Usually it also helps to
+work on something else in the next focus session to force myself into a
+different mode of thinking, but sometimes I only really have one major
+outstanding task at once.
+
+I have been getting a lot better at estimating how long something will take for
+me to do as a result of this (is this one of those neurotypical things that I've
+not gotten the manual on and thus have had to relearn totally from scratch?),
+but I do not feel comfortable sharing my estimates with anyone else yet.
+
+I am definitly going to continue with this experiment. I haven't found a
+suitable pomodoro timer for Gnome yet, though I haven't looked too much. I've
+been trying to reserve pomodoro for my dayjob, but I may integrate it into
+[streams](https://twitch.tv/princessxen) as integrated breaks to talk about
+something else for a moment.
+
+Overall though, I've been liking this technique. It makes me feel like I have
+gotten things done even when my workday doesn't end up with any completed pull
+requests or something like that. I can look back at the note for the day and say
+"yeah, I did things".
+
+If you are looking for some pomodoro software, here's a little table of things
+that I've been liking:
+
+| OS/Desktop Environment | Link                                                                                                           |
+| :--                    | :----                                                                                                          |
+| Windows                | [PowerPom](https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/p/powerpom-pomodoro-timer/9p5zscl5qc8w?activetab=pivot:overviewtab) |
+| KDE                    | [Fokus](https://store.kde.org/p/1308861/)                                                                      |
+
+Post writing time: 2 poms

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