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# Daily Dispatch 25 - Pomodoro
- URL: https://lucas-schiavini.com/daily-dispatch-25-pomodoro/
- Published: 2022-05-06T19:24:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-15T12:09:35.000Z
- Author: Lucas Schiavini
- Tags: dailydispatch, pomodoro, productivity, #Import 2026-08-11 14:49

One of the things I started using in college and was such a game changer that I continued using was the Pomodoro Technique.

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## What is it?

[Francesco Cirillo](https://francescocirillo.com/products/the-pomodoro-technique?ref=lucas-schiavini.com) in the late 1980s created what is called The Pomodoro Technique. He wanted to help improve with his studies by making it less of a hassle.

So he commited for 10 minutes of focused study time. He used a tomato (pomodoro, in italian) shaped kitchen timer.

The technique is simple:

- Get a todo-list + timer
- Set timer for 25 minutes, focus on a single task until the timer hits
- When that session is over, mark “one pomodoro” and record what you completed.
- Enjoy a 5 minute break
- After 4 pomodoros, take a longer break, 10 – 25 minutes.

## How I use the Pomodoro Technique

- My timing
  - 50 minutes of work followed by 10 minutes of rest
  - Every 4 blocks of work, 25 minutes of rest
- The time may vary between every type of person, but here’s how I tweaked it to work for me.
  - Breaks must be without any screens (computer, tv, cellphone)
  - Breaks can consist of meditation, light walking, reading pages in a book
- It’s important to me to use one source of place to use pomodoro, so I have the [PomoFocus](pomofocus.io/) app on my desktop computer.
- It’s also important that breaks I need to consciously start, while work after the break starts automatically (or else I’ll forever postpone with any reason I can think of).
  - It is easier to get up to work after a break if the timer starts automatically.
- Size of a work block
  - If I’m in a good place mentally I tend to push well over 50 minutes on my first work block of the day, sometimes I can go uninterrupted for 2 hours.
  - But if I’m working on something that is really frustrating me, I tend to divide my work blocks for 40 minutes at a time, and I take my breaks religiously.

## Resources

You can check out more at [Todoist](https://todoist.com/productivity-methods/pomodoro-technique.?ref=lucas-schiavini.com) and on [Francesco’s site](https://francescocirillo.com/products/the-pomodoro-technique?ref=lucas-schiavini.com).