The Tomato Work Act is a simple and easy time management approach to improve the productivity of your individual and your team, so that you can: I. Tomato rules and techniques
A tomato takes 30 minutes, including 25 minutes of working time and 5 minutes of rest time.
After every four tomatoes time, stop your work and take a longer rest, about 15-30 minutes.
A tomato time is inseparable, there is no time for half a tomato time or a quarter of a tomato.
Once the tomato timer is turned on, you have to stick to the end.
If you really want to interrupt the current tomato for a few hours, whether you can't stop the temptation, or it's actually an emergency
There's only one thing you need to do: make the current tomato time obsolete, even if it's going to ring right away.
Then mark the point in the table corresponding to the number. You can't draw "" at this time.
If you have done the work at hand before the tomato timer goes off, you can use the rest of the tomato time, review what you've learned before, or check the work you've done, so you can get a little bit of improvement and record what you've done until the bell rings.
"Protect your Tomatoes", clearly inform the person who wants to interrupt you and discuss the postponement of his request.
If the estimated value of a task is greater than 5 to 7 tomatoes, break it. Complex work should be divided into small things.
If the estimated value of a task is less than one tomato, combine several small tasks into one big task.
A tomato with a tomato in succession, it will succeed.
The next tomato time will do better.
• Tomato working method do not use during holidays or breaks, enjoy your life.
Second, the interface introduction of Pomotime software
1. To-do today and Activity inventory list
Noun Explanation:
A to-do today work schedule that starts every day by filling in the following items:
Small headings, including time, place, people
Checklist, Package What to do today and arrange it in the order of first and after
"Unplanned emergencies". These events are unpredictable, but they have to be done, and when they appear in the table, they may overturn the whole-day plan.
2. Activity Inventory Activities List
Activity inventory Activities list consists of the following two items:
Title: People, events
Remember what you want to do, and follow it up. At the end of the day, the completed event is crossed out.
3. "My Performance in Month" performance this month
Statistics on the use of tomatoes this month
Table I: For the month within the daily start, completion, estimates of the number of tomatoes to be counted, so that the use of their own implementation and planning of the situation to examine and reflect.
"Started Poms (starting tomato number) completed (number of tomatoes completed) estimated (estimated number of tomatoes)"
Estimate: Predict which activities are made up of a project (qualitative estimates) and how many tomato clocks are required for an activity (quantitative estimation). The long-term practice of tomato working method was adopted to reduce the prediction error.
Table Two: The daily internal interruption, internal interruption, external interruption of the number of tomatoes to the statistics, so that the use of their own interruption of the situation to examine and reflect.
Interruptions (total interrupts) internal (number of internal interrupts) external (number of external interrupts)
Internal interruption: Tomato clock time, from its own disturbance, want to leave the seat to get something to drink, or a minute brush micro bo.
External interruption: Tomato clock time, in social situations people will encounter, students to ask you for homework, computer reminders to receive new mail, instant messages and other external interference.
Table II: Statistics on the percentage of tomatoes that are discarded daily during the month, allowing the user to examine and reflect on their own implementation.
Interruptions (total interrupts) internal (number of internal interrupts) external (number of external interrupts)
Third, the use of software
1. Fill in the Activity INVENTORY Activity List form for all recently completed activities.
2. Every morning, a number of activities to be carried out today will be transferred to the "to do" form.
3. Click on some tasks
(estimated Pomo) to schedule the task, each estimated Pomo represents a tomato time.
When you have completed the Task plan, click
Start tomato time, start after pop up as shown in the Time Countdown hover window
(the icon is a top hover). Automatically generates one after a countdown is completed. The software also defines the function of the number of Pomo that can be freely added
4. Broken marks
When applying the tomato working method, the interruption is an unavoidable problem.
4.1. Internal interruption:
• Make this class of interrupts clearly visible, and each time you want to do other activities, mark an apostrophe next to the location where you want to record the current tomato clock (
）
• Continue to complete the current tomato clock until the tomato bell rings
4.2. External interrupt:
• This class of interrupts should be clearly visible, and each time someone interrupts your work, draw a picture next to the x position where you want to record the current tomato clock
• Communicate with the interrupt by taking the "notify-negotiate-call-back" strategy
• The same steps as the previous internal interrupt, write down the relevant activity, continue to complete the current tomato clock
• Most seemingly urgent external interrupts can actually be postponed for 25 minutes or 2 hours (4 tomato clocks) to be processed again
• During tomato clocks, you can turn off email and instant messaging software
5. Completion and abandonment of tasks
5.1, after the completion of the task, you can click
Mark Complete. The completed task can no longer be modified.
5.2. If you cannot continue with the current tomato, you need to mark the discard (abandoned Pomodoro)
Iv. setup of the software
Pomotime provides some simple setup options and shortcut keys
1, the software shortcuts mainly include:
2, the software set up the main picture:
Here we can make some simple settings for the font, background and sound of the software. The time of each tomato and the length of the rest time can also be set.
3, Software Data preservation
The data of the software is saved in the Software installation directory under "Dailytask", and is saved according to the year-month-day level.
Iv. Summary
This software is more faithful embodiment of the purpose and method of the tomato work law, in the software function, especially the task information organization still have shortcomings, but as the daily work in front of the computer for a long time white-collar workers, such a simple record and execution function has met the requirements of most of our tasks. The emphasis here is on execution and persistence, and the complete recording of tasks and schedules can be done with other professional time management software. There is always the software that we think we need to improve, in the hope that the developers to improve, but also do not forget that we use the tool is the original intention is: to better solve the problems and tasks we are facing, software is only one of the ways and measures.
