Have you ever found yourself unwilling to start an important project and instead have postponed it? If so, then you’re suffering from a bad case of procrastination (Oh, hi Jonni – Ed). This is a mildly negative character trait that can be addressed by several techniques.
One such approach is the Pomodoro Technique, created by Francesco Cirillo in the 1980s. He suggested combating those self-initiated delaying tactics by breaking the time into periods of focused work, followed by breaks. A focused work period usually lasts for 25 minutes – something that anyone can measure with a kitchen timer, like the tomato-styled one Cirillo used himself. In this month’s HotPicks we’ll be implementing the Pomodoro technique using the Tomatoid5 widget for the Plasma desktop without delay!