So let's say you've achieved flow state, you're highly focused and productive, and then a timer goes off signaling that it's time for you to take a break. While in a flow state, you're highly focused and productive, and your ability to stay focused and productive is effortless. Flow state describes a period of time in which you're fully engaged and immersed in a task. Instead, it often forces an exhausted me to work longer than I'm comfortable with, or it interrupts me when I'm engaged and working well.Īs Read-Bivens describes, one of the big problems with Pomodoro is that the timer is a consistent interruption that inhibits your ability to get into a flow state. The indivisibility of a pomodoro is supposed to prevent interruptions. The first problem with the Pomodoro Technique is that the timer is a tyrant. The Problem with Working in Pomodorosīefore introducing the Flowtime Technique, Read-Bivens wrote about some of her struggles while working in pomodoros: But today, there are dozens of Pomodoro timer apps you can use to automatically time and track each of your pomodoros and breaks.
Cirillo used a kitchen timer designed to look like a tomato to time his focus periods and breaks, which is how the Pomodoro Technique got its name-"pomodoro" means tomato in Italian.
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